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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: An American Express Travel Bureau brochure in red, yellow, and green, and titled: The Way to See Mexico, from The Emporium travel agency in San Francisco. c. 1938.
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Nudist Colony - San Diego Expo.," c. 1935. The Zoro Garden Nudist Colony, named for the Persian mystic, Zoroaster, was an unusual and controversial attraction that featured partially nude men and women performing as nudists. Exposition visitors were charged twenty-five cents to watch the "nudists" perform ceremonies and other activities. Today, the sunken Zoro Garden in Balboa Park is a butterfly garden.
Date: 1935
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No Photograph 277 exists in Album 05, the number having apparently been skipped when the photographs were labeled.
Date: undated
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Chupucanes, or Monte del Diablo boundaries. Volume 1, page 140.
Date: 1827
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No caption. Commemorative U.S. Postage stamp issued in 1933 for Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition, celebrating the one-hundred year anniversary of Chicago's incorporation. This stamp features the Exposition's Federal Building. Its three tall columns represent each branch of the federal government.
Date: 1933
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Caption: "The China Clippers [sic] First Start Across the Pacific Ocean. Nov. 22, 1935." View of the China Clipper, a Martin M-130 four-engine flying boat constructed for Pan American Airways in 1935. One of the largest planes of its time, the China Clipper flew the first transpacific commercial airmail flight between San Francisco and Manila in the Philippines. The China Clipper was destroyed in a crash ten years later, in January 1945, at the Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Date: 11/22/1935