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Caption: "Venice," c. 1915, shows the site of Villa City Boating, where visitors to the resort seaside village of Venice could purchase gondola rides on the canals to visit the town. The seaside resort was founded by tobacco millionaire, Abbot Kinney in 1905, and designed to be like the namesake Italian city.
Date: 1915
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No caption. Letter from Henry Golombeck of the U.S. Navy to William and Grace McCarthy, on the letterhead of the USS New York, dated May 14, 1937, and sent from London England.
Date: 5/14/1937
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No Caption: Entryway to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition as seen at night. 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.
Date: 1909