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Caption: "Municipal Theatre - St. Louis," c. 1923. Built in 1917, the St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre was the first municipally-owned outdoor theatre in the United States. The amphitheater seats 11,000 people, and is still in use today.
Date: 1923
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No Caption: A page from a tourist brochure detailing how to travel from Laredo to Monterrey, Mexico.
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Blackstone Hotel - Michigan Ave. Chicago," c. 1923. Built in 1909 and designed by Benjamin Marshall, the twenty-one story Blackstone Hotel sits on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo Drive in Chicago Illinois. It is the building closest to the left side of the photograph in this row of high-rises. See also 96-07-08-alb04-074.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Ruins of an old Carmelite Monastery. El Desierto de Los Leones, near Mexico City."
Date: 1938
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Caption: "General U.S. Grants [sic] Tomb, Riverside Drive. New York, Aug. 10, 1934." The remains of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the U.S. and Commanding General of the Union Army during the last year of the Civil War, were laid to rest in this elaborate tomb. Grant died in 1885, but construction on the tomb did not begin until 1891. Grant's remains were transferred to the tomb on April 27, 1897.
Date: 8/10/1934
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Caption: "Blue Lakes - Lake Co., Calif.," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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No caption, c. 1909-1915. Group of unidentified men gathered around a part of what appears to be a 12-inch mortar at Fort Ruger, Hawaii. Fort Ruger was established on the Island of O'ahu by the U.S. in 1906 as the Diamond Head Reservation. Its name was changed to Fort Ruger in 1909. See also 96-07-08-alb05-098 and 100.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Negro Family, Hardeeville, S.C. July 16, 1934." Unidentified woman posing with several children.
Date: 7/16/1934
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No Caption: This postcard shows a view of the Government Building and the Cascades (a terraced fountain leading up to the building), part of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Held in Seattle 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. See also 96-07-08-alb05-212.
Date: 1909
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Caption: "Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake City population 145, 500," c. 1935. The Salt Lake City Mormon Temple was opened in 1893 and is the largest temple (253,015 square feet) built by the Church of the Latter-day Saints.
Date: 1935
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