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Caption: "Canyon and Trestle Mt Tamalpais RR.," c. 1907. Muir Woods Railway, established in 1896 as a scenic tourist railway between Mill Valley and the east peak of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County.
Date: 1907
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Caption: "View of Chicago From Boston Store Bldg," c. 1923. State Street, the Chicago Theatre, and the Wrigley Building (still under construction) can be seen in this bird's eye view of Chicago.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Tenaya Lake." Lake with surrounding mountains. Named after Chief Tenaya of Yosemite Valley's Ahwahnechee People, Tenaya Lake is located between Yosemite Valley and Tuolumne Meadows within Yosemite National Park. The surface elevation of the alpine lake is 8,150 feet.
Date: 1927
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Caption: "Yacht Harbor," on the San Francisco Bay outside the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-075.
Date: 1915
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No Caption: Grace and William McCarthy standing near reflecting pool in front of the Palace of Horticulture at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Fotos in San Francisco and Neighboring County's [sic] By Wm. McCarthy." A handwritten label mounted on the first page of the photograph album.
Date: Undated
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Caption: "City Hall and McKinley Monument. Buffalo, New York. Sept. 11, 1934, McKinley Monument." Buffalo's City Hall dominates this photograph. Designed by architect John Wade, the Art Deco-style building was completed in 1931. The white obelisk of McKinley Monument rises to the right of City Hall, commemorating William McKinley, 25th President of the US. He was shot while attending the World's Fair in Buffalo in 1901.
Date: 9/11/1934
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No Caption: A view from the Multnomah Fall Bridge over the Columbia River, c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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No caption, c. 1915. Grace McCarthy and an unidentified woman posing in garden.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "The bull turns for another charge at the Matador. Bull fight at Monterey [sic], Mexico."
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Dry Dock, Bremerton." Bremerton, Washington, c. 1908-1912. See also 96-07-08-alb08-085. View of a dry dock at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington. Established in 1891 as a naval station, it became Naval Yard Puget Sound in 1901. During World War I the shipyard constructed hundreds of ships to support the war effort, while in World War II, the shipyard was dedicated primarily to repairing damaged ships. Today, it contains a portion of the U.S. Navy's mothball fleet (ships retired but retained in case of future need), as well as building, repairing, and maintaining sea-going vessels of all kinds.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "Donner Lake -- view from the highway at the summit." Mountain scene with Donner Lake in far distance.
Date: 1927