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Caption: "Mothers War Memorial, Gulfport, Mississippi, June 19, 34." A columned memorial is visible at the left side of this photograph of Gulfport, Mississippi. Two multi-story buildings stand at the right.
Date: 6/19/1934
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Caption: "Miami Beach, Florida. June 30 1934." William and Grace McCarthy posing in front of a Miami Beach lifeboat, with surf foaming around their ankles.
Date: 6/30/1934
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Caption: "Main Street -- Truckee." Street scene with buildings on either side, including Donner Garage.
Date: 1927
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Caption: The Chapel - Italian Swiss Colony - Asti, Calif.," c. 1915, near Cloverdale in Sonoma County.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "In the Court of Palms," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-051.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Pioneer Monument Near Truckee." Tall monument with man, woman, and two children peering west. The Pioneer Monument was first dedicated on June 6, 1918 to commemorate those who emigrated to California in the mid 1800s. Today, the monument and surrounding area is known as Donner Memorial State Park. The park was established in memory of the ill-fated Donner Party, a group of emigrants whose wagon train was caught in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the winter of 1846-47. The Pioneer Monument's stone pedestal stands twenty-two feet high, the height of the snow that the party had to contend with. Of the eighty-seven people in the wagon train, only forty-eight survived to be rescued the following spring. Some of the survivors are said to have resorted to cannibalism in order to survive.
Date: 1927
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Caption: "Old City Hall Tower," San Francisco, c. 1905. A view of the San Francisco City Hall, built in 1870, before it was damaged beyond repair by the 1906 earthquake and fires. A new city hall, near the site of the original, was completed in 1916.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Yosemite - From Inspiration Point," c. 1917. The Yosemite Valley, showing El Capitan (left middle distance), Cathedral Rocks (right middle distance), and Half Dome (far distance in the center).
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Fruit Exhibit Watsonville." Exhibit at the 1912 "Big Week" in Salinas (Monterey County), an event still celebrated today as the Salinas Rodeo. The exhibit displays a building made almost entirely out of apples and apple slices. See also 96-07-08-alb05-068.
Date: 1912
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Caption: "Statues of," shows the Fountain of Spring(Furio Piccirilli, sculptor), in the Court of the Four Seasons, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 97-07-08-alb01-101 and 96-07-08-alb03-034.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Casino-Santa Cruz," c. 1910. A view of the beachside casino resort with many beachgoers enjoying the sand and water. The casino, designed by William Weeks, was constructed in 1907, replacing a previous casino building that burned down in 1906. See also 96-07-08-alb05-075.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Diningroom [sic] -- Port Townsend.," c. 1908-1912. Grace McCarthy seated at a desk in a parlor or dining room of a residence in Port Townsend.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "George Washington Bridge. New Jersey to New York. Aug 1, 1934." This suspension bridge, designed by Othmar Ammann, spans the Hudson River between Manhattan in New York City, and Fort Lee, New Jersey. Constructed between 1927 and 1931, the bridge included the longest main span in the world at the time, a record it held until construction of the Golden Gate Bridge was completed in 1937. It was originally built with only one deck, but a second deck opened in 1962. Still in active use today, it carried over 51 million vehicles in 2016.
Date: 8/1/1934
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Caption: "Fountain of Energy," (A. Stirling Calder, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-015.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Highway Beggar. Bears never refuse. Yellowstone National Park," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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No Caption: Yellow ribbon commemorating "San Francisco Day" at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. 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: 9/4/1909
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Caption: "Court of Palms," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-059 with caption: "Palm Avenue."
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Eagle River D. & R. G. R. R," c. 1923. Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks run next to the Eagle River at the bottom of a canyon in this photograph. A wall of timber shores up part of one side of the canyon wall in the distance. The Denver and Rio Grande (D&RG) primarily operated railroad lines between Denver, Colorado and Salt Lake City, Utah, with other lines stretching into New Mexico.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Tioga Lake." Glacial lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in Mono County, California, within the Inyo National Forest.
Date: 1927