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Caption: "Cliff House #2." View of the third Cliff House, of Victorian-style architecture, that was built on that site in San Francisco, c. 1906. The original Cliff House was built in 1858. The second was built in 1863 and was destroyed by fire on Christmas day in 1894. The third Victorian- style Cliff House (pictured) was completed in 1896, and although it survived the 1906 earthquake and fires, it burned to the ground in 1907. A fourth Cliff House was then built with steel-reinforced concrete and opened in 1909.
Date: 1906
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No caption: Grace McCarthy (far left) poses with four unidentified women in front of a small body of water, c. 1925.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Refugee Hut," shows four people standing in the doorway of a hut built after the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Russian River Healdsburg July 1914," shows two women swimming in the river.
Date: 1914
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No Caption: Fountain of Autumn (Furio Piccirilli, sculptor), in the Court of the Four Seasons at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Blakeley saw-mill, Wash.," c. 1905. View of a saw mill in Port Blakeley, now known as Port Blakely, on the southern tip of Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "On Shasta Route," Siskiyou County, California, c. 1905
Date: 1905