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Caption: "South Gardens," William and Grace McCarthy riding in an electric motor chair, also known as the Osborn Electriquette, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-027.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Granite Formation," c. 1917. A granite wall towers above the Merced River in this photograph of a portion of the Yosemite Valley.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Santa Barbara Mission," c. 1910. View of Mission Santa Barbara, established by Spanish Franciscan monks in 1786.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Elevated R.R. View from Williamsburg Bridge. New York, Aug. 9, 1934." Bird's eye view of a portion of New York City, from the Williamsburg Bridge over the East River. An elevated railway dominates the center of the photograph.
Date: 8/9/1934
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Caption: "S.F. Before the Fire," shows the central city of San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake and fires, 1906.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Longfellow Bridge, Boston, Mass. Sept. 5, 1934." The Longfellow Bridge spans the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge. Originally called the Cambridge Bridge, it replaced a wood structure called the West Boston Bridge that had been constructed in 1793. This wood bridge was unable to handle large volumes of traffic or the introduction of street cars, so a new bridge was built in the early twentieth century. Opened in 1906 as the Cambridge Bridge, the name was changed in 1927 to the Longfellow Bridge in honor of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It is colloquially known as the Salt and Pepper Bridge, as its central towers are reminiscent in shape of salt and pepper shakers.
Date: 9/5/1934
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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