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Caption: "Del Monte," c. 1920. Five unidentified women standing in front of a palm tree on the grounds of the Hotel Del Monte. The photograph shows the second of three hotels built on the site, near Monterey, California (this building was destroyed by fire in 1924). The property surrounding the hotel became known as Pebble Beach.
Date: 1920
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No caption, c. 1927. A resort in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, near the California-Nevada border.
Date: 1927
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No caption, 1913. U.S. Two-Cent commemorative postage stamp, celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal. The stamp, issued in 1913, features an image of two ships passing through the locks of the Canal.
Date: 1913
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Caption: "Happy Isles - Yosemite National Park," c. 1935, shows an unidentified rushing river.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Wall Street, New York. Aug 8 1934." Street scene on Wall Street, New York City. Bustling crowds fill the sidewalks while tall buildings loom on each side of the street.
Date: 8/8/1934
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Caption: "Tea Garden -- Golden Gate Park," c. 1910. View of the five-acre Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Established in 1894 by George Turner Marsh for the Midwinter Exposition of that year, it is the oldest public Japanese Tea Garden in the U.S.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Column of the Rising Sun," (Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Baby Ostriches 3 weeks old. Ostrich Farm, Los Angeles," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Cooking Apparatus. One in Place on Motor, Two Removed. Oct. 10, 1934." This photograph shows three metal boxes used by the McCarthys for cooking during their five-month cross-country auto trip. One of the boxes is set on the engine of their automobile to heat the contents.
Date: 10/10/1934
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Caption: "Hotel del Coronado," c. 1915-1916. William and Grace McCarthy and unidentified man with automobile in front of the Hotel del Coronado. At the time it opened in 1888, this hotel was the largest beach resort in the world.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Yellowstone Grand Canyon," c. 1923. One wall of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone can be seen in this photograph, viewed from the opposite rim of the Canyon. The Canyon is approximately 24 miles long, and between 800 and 1,200 feet deep.
Date: 1923