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Caption: "Huntington Falls -- G.G. Park.," c. 1912-1915. Artificial waterfall in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Huntington Falls cascades down Strawberry Hill to empty into Stow Lake. The 110-foot-tall falls is named after Collis P. Huntington, one of the "Big Four" of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "The John Shields Home." Side view of the residence of John Shields on Long Island, with a car parked under a carport.
Date: 1934
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Caption: "Vancouver Hotel, Vancouver, B.C.," c. 1908-1912. View of the Hotel Vancouver, designed by architect T.C. Sorly for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). This photograph shows the first building on the site, which opened in 1888. By 1916, the area had grown so much that the CPR razed this building and constructed a new, larger, more modern facility.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "Yosemite Falls - View From Glacier Point," c. 1917. Yosemite Falls in the distance, as seen from Glacier Point. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.
Date: 1917