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Caption: "Nevada Scene." Mountainside, with another mountain in the distance.
Date: 1927
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Caption: "Alligator Farm, Los Angeles," c. 1935, shows a large group of alligators in a pen.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "On the Avenue of Palms," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Butcharts Gardens, Victoria, B.C." c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Yellowstone - Grand Canyon," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The Yellowstone River can be glimpsed at the bottom of the Canyon near the center of the photograph. The Canyon is approximately 24 miles long, and between 800 and 1,200 feet deep.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Colonnades of the Agriculture and Transportation Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "In The Red Bug." Two unidentified boys pose in a small go-cart near the carport in front of the John Shields residence, in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.
Date: 1934
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Caption: "The Battery, Lower Manhattan, New York, N.Y [sic], Aug. 4, 1934." This photograph shows the Manhattan skyline, as well as the Battery, a 25-acre park at the tip of Manhattan Island. The park was named for the artillery batteries that used to protect the city and its harbor from this location.
Date: 8/4/1934
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Caption: "Thatched hut Indian village, near Tamazunchale, Mexico."
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Church Butte [sic], near Green River, Wyoming. Oct. 2, 1934." The Church Buttes in Wyoming consist of sandstone eroded by wind and weather into a butte approximately 1,000 feet in diameter and rising up to 100 feet above the surrounding valley floor. Located along the Overland Route used by emigrants to the West Coast, the formation gained additional notoriety for being a camp site for Brigham Young and the first Mormon party to head west, as well as a relay site for the Pony Express.
Date: 10/2/1934
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No caption, c. 1935. Grace McCarthy peers out of a car window at a curious bear in Yosemite National Park.
Date: 1935