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One side of a flier handed out by the San Antonio Reptile Garden in the mid-1930s entitled "Reptile Facts." The Reptile Garden opened in the 1930s as a fundraising facility for the Witte Museum. The Garden featured turtle races, snake handling demonstrations, fried rattlesnake meat, and rattlesnake dinner fund raisers. It also became a research center for the use of antivenom. The Garden closed in the early 1940s, its live snakes donated to the San Antonio Zoo.
Date: 1934
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Office Memorandum from Margaret Billings to War Services Division, Sacramento regarding summary of review in San Benito County
Date: January 9, 1946
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Caption: "Windows of Employees Dining Room - Pacific Colony." Pacific State Hospital. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals. The hospital was initially named Pacific Colony (1927-1953), followed by Pacific State Hospital (1953-1979); Frank D. Lanterman State Hospital and Developmental Center; and finally Lanterman Developmental Center, which closed in 2015.
Date: 1934
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Caption: "Loop in Oregon Caves Highway," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Ojo de Agua del Encinal boundaries. Volume 2, page 176.
Date: 1839