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Caption: "Old Otomie [sic]Indian lady and her son. She is spinning twine from Maguey fiber onto a spool as she trudges the highway barefooted, Zimipan, Mexico."

Date: 1938

Caption: "Old State Capitol-Benicia," c. 1918, shows the Benicia State Capitol building, built in 1852, the third location of the state capital from February 1853 to February 1854, before it was moved permanently to Sacramento. The historic building was listed as a California State Historic Landmark in 1935, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Today the site is known as the Benicia Capitol State Historic Park.

Date: 1918

Caption: "Home of C.B. Raymond, Montecito, Santa Barbara, May 23, 1935."

Date: 1935

Caption: "Biltmore Hotel -- Coral Gables -- Miami -- Florida. June 30, 1934." View of the Miami Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, part of the Bowman-Biltmore hotel chain. The luxury hotel, designed by Schultze and Weaver, was the tallest building in Florida at the time of its completion in 1926. It held this record until 1928, when the Miami-Dade Courthouse was constructed.

Date: 6/30/1934

Caption: "Mojave Desert Cactus. Cayon [sic] Pass near Victorville," c. 1935, shows a Joshua Tree in bloom on the Cajon Pass near Victorville.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Crater Lake and Wizard Island," c. 1935.

Date: 1935

No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-158 with caption: "Government Building and Bridge of Nations, Portland Fair," Portland, Oregon, 1905. Shows the Government Building, Guild's Lake, and the Bridge of Nations, a long pedestrian bridge over the lake. Some of the more than 100,000 light bulbs used to outline the exposition's buildings can be seen along the arches and decorative molding of the bridge. The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition was held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.

Date: 1905

Caption: "The Ghetto with its Street Venders [sic], New York City. Aug. 12, 1934." Crowded street scene in New York City, with numerous street vendors selling a variety of goods, including vegetables and toiletry supplies.

Date: 8/12/1934

Caption: "Promenade, Daytona Beach, Florida, July 9, 1934." Wide promenade along the beach at Daytona Beach, featuring a row of benches at the left (seaside) and covered seating areas on the right, with palm trees. Daytona Beach was created when the neighboring towns of Daytona, Daytona Beach, Kingston, and Seabreeze merged in 1926. The area's beach was already well-known in both tourist and automobile circles

Date: 7/9/1934

Caption: "President Taft in the Park," October 14, 1911. President William Howard Taft in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which was slated to open January 1915.

Date: 1911