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Caption: "Causeway -- Sacramento Highway." William and Grace McCarthy driving over the newly-constructed Yolo Causeway, an elevated stretch of I-80 that connects what is now West Sacramento with Davis by traveling across the Yolo Bypass. The Yolo Causeway's official name is Blecher-Freeman Memorial Causeway.
Date: 1916
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No Caption: A view of the reconstruction on Market Street after the 1906 earthquake and fires, c. 1907.
Date: 1907
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Caption: "Opening Day, Nov. 12, 1936, San Francisco, Oakland Bay Bridge, Before the Traffic Started." View of the San Francisco terminus of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Built between May 1933 and its opening on November 12, 1936, the Bay Bridge's design combined three different types of bridge-building technology over the five miles it covers between San Francisco and Oakland: a suspension span, a cantilevered span, and a tunnel. At the time of its completion the bridge was the longest steel structure on the globe. It also featured the deepest bridge pier ever built, and the world's largest bore tunnel.
Date: 11/12/1936
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Caption: "Houston Ship Channel Ferry -- Houston Tex. June 9, 34." View of a ferry with a single vehicle on board, crossing the Houston Ship Channel. The dredged channel was opened in 1914 as part of the Port of Houston.
Date: 6/9/1934
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Caption: "A pass through lava walls. The Golden Gate of Yellowstone National Park," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Emerald Bay and Mount Tallac - Lake Tahoe, Calif.," c. 1935.
Date: 1935