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Caption: "Oakland City Hall," Oakland, California, c. 1910. Completed in 1879, the building was Oakland's second city hall and served until it was demolished in 1914 to create City Hall Plaza in front of the new City Hall that had been completed that year.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "San Diego." View of Point Loma Light. First lit in 1891, this light replaced the "Old Point Loma Lighthouse" that had been constructed in 1855 (see 96-07-08-alb08-225). The old lighthouse was often obscured by fog, so a new lighthouse was built at a lower elevation much closer to sea level, as can be seen in this photograph. The light was automated in 1973. See also 96-07-08-alb05-226.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Long Beach," c. 1910. Bathers enjoying the surf at Long Beach. Long Beach pier runs through the center of the photograph.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Blue Lakes," c. 1920. Lake with surrounding rolling hills/mountains.
Date: 1920
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No caption, c. 1935. Grace McCarthy sitting in a covered porch swing on the patio of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "St. Francis Hotel," c. 1905. St. Francis Hotel at Union Square and the Dewey Monument in the foreground (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), which commemorated U.S. Admiral George Dewey's naval victory at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American War of 1898. The luxury hotel opened in 1904 and fortunately suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. It was expanded in 1913, and 1972, making it one of the largest hotels in the city.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Annheuser Busch Residence. Los Angeles," c. 1906. Unidentified woman standing in front of Tudor-style mansion, with several gables and chimneys covered in ivy. Built in 1898 in Pasadena and designed by Frederick Roehrig, the Ivy Wall (the mansion's nickname) was purchased by Adolphus Busch in 1905. Busch gradually bought up much of the surrounding property, and subsequently created the first Busch Gardens. After his death in 1913, his wife Lily continued to develop the gardens. Lily died in 1928. Over the next two decades, the gardens were gradually sold off to real estate developers. The Ivy Wall itself was torn down in 1952.
Date: 1906