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Caption: "Venice, Calif," c. 1911. Grace McCarthy and an unidentified woman standing on a bridge over Lion Canal in Venice, California. In 1905, Abbot Kinney built a series of canals as part of a development project along Santa Monica Beach, hoping to recreate the look and feel of Italy's iconic "Floating City" in southern California. Called Ocean Park at first, gondoliers sailed boats under elegant bridges such as the one shown in this photograph, in an effort to attract businesses, residents, and investors. In 1911, the name officially changed to Venice. By 1929, however, many of the canals had been filled in to create roadways, and those canals that remained fell into disrepair. A revitalization movement in the early 1990s has restored some of the canals, and made the area a desirable residential neighborhood.
Date: 1911
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Caption: "City Hall, Return of American Forces from France," in San Francisco after the end of World War I, 1919.
Date: 1919
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Caption: "Sacramento - State Capitol," c. 1910, shows the façade of California's neoclassical-style capitol building in Sacramento.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "W.P.R.R. Feather River," c. 1920. Western Pacific Railroad train making its way along the Feather River in California.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Angel Terrace," c. 1923. Dead trees around Angel Terrace, along the upper terrace loop of Mammoth Hot Springs.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Desert View Tower - Arizona Grand Canyon," c. 1935. The Desert View Watchtower, built in 1932, was designed by architect Mary Colter in the style of Ancestral Puebloan watchtowers.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "We stopped at Gandy Courts." A section of a tourist informational brochure describing the village of Tamazunchale, in "the heart of the Huastecan Indian country."
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Home of Mary Clark -- Movie Star -- New Orleans, June 17, 1934." View of large, two-story residence in New Orleans. William McCarthy described this as the home of Helen Marguerite Clark, a silent film actress who married Louisiana businessman Harry Palmerston Williams. California State Archives staff were not able to confirm that this house was one of the New Orleans-area residences owned by the couple.
Date: 6/17/1934
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Caption: "Court of Four Seasons," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-078
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Food Products and Educational Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-143.
Date: 1915
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No caption, c. 1915-1920. Shepperd's Dell Bridge, built in 1914, spans Young Creek along the Historic Columbia River Highway.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Colonnade. Agricultural Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-052.
Date: 1915
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No caption. Grace McCarthy siting in a horse-drawn buggy in front of the McCarthy home in Watsonville, c. 1906.
Date: 1906