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Caption: "Williams Canion [sic] - Cave of the Winds," c. 1923. View of a rugged canyon with a small building perched on one wall featuring a sign reading "CAVE." In 1880, two brothers, George and John Pickett, discovered the entrance to a large cave system in Williams Canyon. Further exploration resulted in opening more caverns within the system. The site became a tourist attraction called "Cave of the Winds," with guided tours having been on offer since 1881.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Want to get down," c. 1906, shows a small black dog standing on a chair.
Date: 1906
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No Caption: The Dutch Windmill at the western edge of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, c. 1906.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Vernal Falls [sic]," c. 1917. Vernal Fall is a 317-foot waterfall on the Merced River, downstream of Nevada Fall.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Del Monte.," c. 1920. William and Grace McCarthy standing with an automobile in front of the Hotel Del Monte. The second of three hotels built on the site, near Monterey, California, the building in this photograph was destroyed by fire in 1924. The property surrounding the hotel became known as Pebble Beach, now a world-renowned resort and golf course.
Date: 1920
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No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-078 with caption: "Harrold and Buff," c. 1906. A young child with a dog is seen standing near a fence at the McCarthy home in Watsonville.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Hole in the Wall; La Conner, Wash.," c. 1905. This postcard shows a view of the "Hole in the Wall," a narrow gap between Puget Sound's Swinomish Channel and Skagit Bay, near La Conner, Washington.
Date: 1905
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Potrero de los Cerritos boundaries. Volume 2, page 51.
Date: 1840
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Caption: "Forrestry [sic] Building, Portland Exposition." View of the Forestry Building of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. Constructed of approximately one million board feet of lumber, including dozens of unpeeled, old-growth tree trunks, the building was purchased by the City of Portland after the Exposition. The building was later destroyed by fire, in 1964. The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition was held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Court House, Port Townsend, Washington," c. 1935. The Jefferson County Courthouse in Port Townsend, Washington, was built in 1891 (W.A. Ritchie, architect) in Romanesque architectural style.
Date: 1935
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No Caption: c. 1905. Canadian one-cent postage stamp bearing the image of Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom from 1901-1910.
Date: 1905
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No Caption: Fountain of Energy (A. Stirling Calder, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Lake McDonald - Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "A.Y.P.E. Entrance." See also 96-07-08-alb08-121. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was held in Seattle, Washington in 1909 to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Although most of the fair's buildings have since been destroyed, several of them now serve as part of the University of Washington campus.
Date: 1909
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Caption: "Fort Columbia, Wash.," c. 1910. Fort Columbia, built between 1896 and 1904, sits on Chinook Point overlooking the Columbia River. It is part of the Three Fort Harbor Defense System protecting the mouth of the river from enemy incursion or attack (the other forts being Oregon's Fort Stevens and Washington's Fort Canby). Fort Columbia was decommissioned after World War II, and is now the site of a Washington State Park.
Date: 1910