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No caption. This commemorative ten-cent stamp was affixed to the same page as Photographs 073 and 074. With "United States Postage, Lindbergh Air Mail" written across the top, it shows the biplane Spirit of St. Louis, over a drawing of the Atlantic Ocean between New York and Paris. Issued in June 1927 as a tribute to Charles Lindbergh, who made the first non-stop flight between Paris and New York in May of that year.
Date: 1927
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No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing the National Palace in Mexico City.
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Court House -- Seattle.," c. 1916. The King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle, Washington, was built in 1916 as a five-story structure, as shown in this photograph. Six floors were added in 1930, and another three before 1965. In 1967, a massive remodeling project imposed aluminum curtain walls on the building's east and west sides, changed the main entryway switched to Third Avenue rather than Jefferson Street, and made other changes to the interior.
Date: 1916
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No caption, c. 1935. William (seated at left end of front row) and Grace (seated at right end of back row) McCarthy with five other unidentified people.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "6" Disappearing Gun." Two unidentified men sit on a 6" disappearing gun at an unidentified location. The disappearing guns were coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports, primarily during the first half of the twentieth century.
Date: Undated