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No Caption: The photograph has a hand-written inscription stating: "Portola Electric Bell Copyright 1909 Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 800." Installed on the intersection of Third and Market Streets in San Francisco, the Portola Electric Bell contained two thousand bulbs and rose 125 feet above the street. It was part of the Portola Festival of 1909, a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.
Date: 1909
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Office Memorandum from Doris Todd to Genevieve Murrican regarding the number of telephone inquiries for information
Date: February 9, 1942
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No caption, c. 1915. William and Grace McCarthy posing together in a garden. See also 96-07-08-alb04-250, and 96-07-08-alb05-090, 091, 092, and 096.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Mallet Articulated Compound Locomotive," Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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No Caption: Court of Abundance at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915.
Date: 1915
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No caption. A close-up view of a piece of unidentified heavy artillery.
Date: Undated
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Caption: "A Louisiana Plantation Home. June 13, 34." A single-story residence featuring a long porch with paired columns, set back from the road. Picturesque trees dripping with Spanish moss bracket the home.
Date: 6/13/1934
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Caption: "Lancaster Battery, Presidio," c. 1906, shows a distant view of Lancaster Battery. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Date: 1906
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No Caption: Shows a train somewhere in the Sierra Nevada, c. 1915.
Date: 1915