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Caption: "Ringling Museum -- Sarasota -- Florida, June 28 1934." Entrance to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida's state art museum established by John and Mable Ringling in 1927. John was a promoter and part-owner of the famous Ringling Brothers Circus, along with four of his brothers. When John and Mable built a winter home in Sarasota in 1926, they also explored the possibility of establishing an art gallery on the same property. Architect John H. Phillips designed the building, which opened to the public in 1931. John Ringling willed the facility and the art collection to the state of Florida upon his death in 1936. The museum, now known simply as "The Ringling," is under the jurisdiction of the University of Florida.
Date: 6/28/1934
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Caption: "Col - Cap & Base - Fresno State College." Detail drawing of column, Student Activities Building. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Education.
Date: 1940
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Caption: "Arroyo Seco Parkway, Hough Street Bridge. VII - LA - 205 - So. Pasa." Overpass study by Alfred Eichler. Negative. Project for Department of Public Works - Highways - Bridge Department.
Date: undated
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No Caption: U.S. Naval officers and sailors at the memorial for the victims of the USS Bennington's boiler explosion. The hump of a large mass grave dominates the foreground.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Fort Point," c. 1910. This postcard shows a view of Fort Point, at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. The facilities at Fort Point were part of an effort by the U.S. government to protect the Golden Gate, entrance to the San Francisco Bay. Built between 1853-1861, the fort included emplacements for 141 guns but never fired a weapon in defense of the Bay. Its name was officially changed in 1882 to Fort Winfield Scott, but in 1886 the fort was officially downgraded to a sub-post of the San Francisco Presidio and the name discontinued. It was resurrected in 1912, with the establishment of a coastal artillery fortification at the Presidio, called, once again, Fort Winfield Scott.
Date: 1910