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Caption: "Market Street Burning." A view of the Call Building on Market and 3rd Streets on fire after the 1906 earthquake, with people and horses in the foreground. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Mammoth Springs, Yellowstone Park. Summer House - Deer, Elk, Moose and Buffalo horns," c. 1935, shows Grace McCarthy standing at the entrance to a hut made of many antlers, skulls, and bones from elk, deer, moose, and buffalo.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Veu-Deleu [sic] Santa Cruz Beach," c. 1910. Ocean shore scene with waves and high spray. The Vue de L'eau (View of the Water) was a station on the Santa Cruz, Garfield Park and Capitola Electric Railway electric streetcar line. The station, built in 1891, was located at the very end of the line, on a promontory overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It featured an observatory on the top story. The same company also built a casino, ballroom, and restaurant nearby. The station burned down in 1925. See also 96-07-08-alb08-192.

Date: 1910

Caption: "Yellowstone Grand Canyon," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The 308-foot tall cascade of Lower Yellowstone Falls of the Yellowstone River can be seen at the top of the photograph, flowing into the Canyon. The Canyon is approximately 24 miles long, and between 800 and 1,200 feet deep.

Date: 1923

Caption: "California," c, 1917. The McCarthy's vehicle is squeezed into the tunnel carved through the California Tree, a Giant Sequoia in the Mariposa Grove of Yosemite National Park. The tunnel was cut through the tree in 1895 to facilitate travel on the road into the grove, and also as a tourist attraction. It is now the only living Giant Sequoia with a tunnel cut through it (so-called "tunnel trees"), the others having all fallen.

Date: 1917

Caption: "Yellowstone Lake - Teton Mountains in the distance, Mount Sheridan," c. 1935.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Nevada Falls, Yosemite National Park," c. 1935.

Date: 1935

No Caption: Seven adult lions perform at Gay's Lion Farm in El Monte, Los Angeles, c. 1935.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Statue of Energy" shows the Fountain of Energy (A. Stirling Calder, sculptor), within the main entrance of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Conservatory, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, May 14, 1934." View of one wing of the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. A planting bed in front of the wing has been planted with flowers in such a way as to portray the California flag and the letters "California Diamond Jubilee, 1850-1925." The date on this photograph may not be accurate, given the dates included in the flower bed. The Conservatory of Flowers is the oldest building in Golden Gate Park, dating to 1879. The Victorian-style building has housed rare and exotic plants since its completion.

Date: 5/14/1934