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Caption: "Yosemite.," c. 1920. View of the Yosemite Valley from the valley floor, with the Merced River in the foreground, and El Capitan (left) and the Cathedral Rocks (right) in the background. Bridalveil Fall cascades down a cliff face beneath the Cathedral Rocks.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Bullion Bend Monument," c. 1920. William and Grace McCarthy standing in front of an automobile, near a stone monument. Bullion Bend, located between Pollock Pines and Whitehall in the historic Highway 50 corridor, was the scene of a stagecoach robbery in 1864 in which silver bullion was stolen by robbers claiming to need the money in order to support the Confederate Army.
Date: 1920
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No Caption: A Crater Lake National Park decal, 1935, octagon-shaped, brown and white, with an image of a bear on a cliff that with the lake below.
Date: 1935
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Drawing of Merced Branch Station, California Highway Patrol. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built at cost of approximately $5000 (contract). Project for California Highway Patrol.
Date: 1932
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Report on potential suspension of rights of Japanese-Americans during the war
Date: May 23, 1942
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Caption: "8" Gun," c. 1909. Shows the barrel and carriage of an 8" heavy artillery gun, likely used in coastal defense.
Date: 1909
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No Caption: The Smith Tower, named after it builder, industrialist and typewriter magnate, Lyman Cornelius Smith, opened in 1914. At 38 floors, the Smith Tower was the first skyscraper in Seattle and the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, c. 1935.
Date: 1935