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Caption: "Tower of Jewels," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The Panama Pacific International Exposition was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, as well as inventive technologies and new industries from around the world. It was also a chance for San Francisco to show the world how the great city had rebuilt and thrived after the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "A Truckee Mountain Scene." Mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Date: 1927
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Caption: "Chicago Fair Grounds at Night. Sept. 22, 1934." View of a portion of the Century of Progress Exposition as seen at night. The Exposition, a world fair attended by thirty-nine million people, celebrated Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. Originally planned to only run from May to November in 1933, it was such a success that its organizers decided to keep it running for a second season from May through October the following year. The central theme of the Exposition was technological innovation, with a motto of "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms."
Date: 9/22/1934
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Caption: "Court of the Universe from Tower of Jewels," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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No caption. Two unidentified children posing on stoop of a house in Chino, California.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Paseo de La Reforma, the beautiful boulevard of Mexico City."
Date: 1938
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