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Caption: "Don Gasper [sic] de Portola and Queen," 1909. Participants at the Portola Festival on horseback and dressed in period costume as Don Gaspar De Portola and Queen. The Portola Festival was 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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Caption: "Bruin robbing the garbage cans," c. 1935, shows a bear raiding garbage cans at Yellowstone National Park.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Panama-California Exposition, San Diego," shows a view of an elaborately decorated building at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Fine Arts Building" at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Echo Park [sic] Los Angeles," c. 1906. Unidentified man leaning on a railing made of tree branches, with palm trees and other vegetation in the background. Echo Lake Park opened in 1895. The lake was originally created in 1868 to support the operations of a mill. The mill, however, closed seven years later. The site was later selected for conversion to a city park.
Date: 1906