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Caption: "Battery Spencer. Highest 12" Battery in the World." With construction begun in 1893, Battery Spencer, located at Fort Baker in Marin County on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge, was one of the main protection points for the San Francisco harbor from 1897 until it was deactivated in 1942. It was named for Major General Joseph Spencer of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Date: 1908
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No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people posing for a photograph in a park or landscaped yard. William McCarthy is seated at the bottom right.
Date: 1920
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No caption, c. 1910. Image of parlor or dining room decorated for a celebration. Strings of beads or bells hang around the entry to the room.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Mountain Lake, Bok Singing Tower in the Distance -- Florida, June 26, 1934." Lake scene, with lush vegetation and the Singing Tower of Bok Tower Gardens visible in the center of the photograph. Mountain Lake, named for the lake near which it was established, was founded by Frederick S. Ruth in 1916.
Date: 6/26/1934
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Caption: "155 M/M Guns -- Camp Lewis," c. 1920. Scene with several 155 millimeter caliber field guns ready for transport at Camp Lewis, Washington.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Flavel Hotel -- on the Columbia River.," c. 1905-1909. Built at the turn of the century, the Flavel Hotel housed passengers waiting to board steamships of the Great Northern Pacific Steamship Company bound for San Francisco and other ports. The Flavel family constructed the hotel as part of an effort to establish the town of Flavel on Tansy Point along the Columbia River. The town failed to attract sufficient residents, however, and was annexed into Warrenton by 1918.
Date: 1905