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Caption: "Promenade. Panama California Exposition. San Diego," at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego. See also 96-07-08-alb01-152.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Landing Guns, Point Benito [sic]," c. 1906. This may be a misspelling and actually Point Bonita, in the San Francisco Bay.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Sea Coast Guns.," c. 1908-1912. View of a disappearing coastal defense gun, with its carriage. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "Work of Mounting Big Guns, Point Benito [sic]," c.1906. This may actually be Point Bonita in the San Francisco Bay.
Date: 1906
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