Bookmarks
Showing Bookmarks 1 to 10 of 10
-
Caption: "Pioneer Monument Near Truckee." Tall monument with man, woman, and two children peering west. The Pioneer Monument was first dedicated on June 6, 1918 to commemorate those who emigrated to California in the mid 1800s. Today, the monument and surrounding area is known as Donner Memorial State Park. The park was established in memory of the ill-fated Donner Party, a group of emigrants whose wagon train was caught in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the winter of 1846-47. The Pioneer Monument's stone pedestal stands twenty-two feet high, the height of the snow that the party had to contend with. Of the eighty-seven people in the wagon train, only forty-eight survived to be rescued the following spring. Some of the survivors are said to have resorted to cannibalism in order to survive.
Date: 1927
-
Caption: "Atlantic City," c. 1925. Grace McCarthy sits center with two unidentified women in a wheeled electric conveyance, in front of the Traymore Hotel on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.
Date: 1925
-
Caption: "Emerald Bay." Shows Emerald Bay on the southwestern edge of Lake Tahoe, surrounded by mountains.
Date: 1927
-
Caption: "Lake Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Sept. 12, 1934." Street scene along Cleveland's Lake Avenue. The roadway is lined by trees and grassy verges.
Date: 9/12/1934
-
Caption: "Statues of," shows the Fountain of Spring(Furio Piccirilli, sculptor), in the Court of the Four Seasons, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 97-07-08-alb01-101 and 96-07-08-alb03-034.
Date: 1915
-
Caption: "Santa Fe Depot, Los Angeles," c. 1910. The La Grande Station opened in 1893 and served as the main passenger terminal for the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe). The building, with its Moorish inspired architecture, was heavily damaged by the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and was eventually demolished in 1946.
Date: 1910
-
Caption: "San Diego Fair Grounds." and "39-9, U.S. Naval Training Station, Balboa Park, San Diego," c. 1917. With the advent of World War I, the U.S. Navy needed additional training grounds for sailors. In 1917, the City of San Diego offered to lease the Navy a portion of Balboa Park as a temporary training site until a new, more permanent facility could be constructed. This postcard shows groups of sailors drilling in formation while a small crowd watches.
Date: 1917
-
Caption: "Old Mission, Santa Barbara," c. 1906. View of Mission Santa Barbara, established by Spanish Franciscan monks in 1786.
Date: 1906
-
Caption: "P. and O. R.R. -- Key West to Miami -- Florida. July 2, 1934." View of railroad tracks carried on a berm in the foreground and on a trestle over water in the distance. This is likely part of the Overseas Railroad, an extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, built to connect Key West with the Florida mainland.
Date: 7/2/1934
-
Caption: "The Racetrack," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915