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Caption: "Union Pacific Streamline Train. Chicago Fair. Sept. 22, 1934." View of the engine on the Union Pacific's new M-10000, on exhibit at Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition. The M-10000 was the first lightweight express passenger train powered by an internal combustion engine in the U.S. The train went on an exhibition tour of the US in 1934, which included a stop at the Exposition. The Exposition, a world fair attended by thirty-nine million people, celebrated Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. Originally planned to only run from May to November in 1933, it was such a success that its organizers decided to keep it running for a second season from May through October the following year. The central theme of the Exposition was technological innovation, with a motto of "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms."
Date: 9/22/1934
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No caption, c. 1909. William McCarthy (second from the left) and a group of unidentified family and friends boating on a river or lake.
Date: 1909
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No caption. An unidentified man poses in the drivers seat of an automobile while two unidentified boys sit on the car's running boards.
Date: Undated
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Caption: "Orange Hot Spring - Yellowstone, " c. 1923. View of Yellowstone's Orange Spring Mound, part of the complex of thermal features at the Mammoth Hot Springs.
Date: 1923
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Caption: Multnomah Falls, Columbia River Highway, Oregon," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. View from Bryce Point," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Lake Louise Chateau - Canada," c. 1935 shows the luxury hotel, originally built by the Canadian Pacific Railway as a base for outdoor enthusiasts in 1890. The hotel is located in Banff National Park.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Strawberry Hill -- Golden Gate Park.," c. 1912-1915. Image of small waterfall and pond on Strawberry Hill. This hill rises above Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, surrounded by the man-made Stow Lake.
Date: 1915
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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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No Caption: Court of the Universe with collonnades and arch, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915