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Caption: "On the Extensive Plains of Nebraska. Sept. 28, 1934." Automobile parked on the side of a highway stretching in to the distance, flanked by fields.
Date: 9/27/1934
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Caption: "Boston Harbor. View from Custom House Building. Sept 5, 1934." Bird's eye view of Boston Harbor and surrounding port and wharf facilities.
Date: 9/5/1934
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Potrero de los Cerritos boundaries. Volume 2, page 52.
Date: 1840
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This item has no description.
Date: 1968
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Caption: "Fort Worden when the snow has come. Greetings from Port Townsend - Wash." and "Photo by P.M. Richardson, 1910." This postcard shows an overview of Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington, on Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1898, and by 1902 it was serving as an active U.S. Army base. Fort Worden was part of the "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. The U.S. sold the property to the state of Washington in 1957. In 1973, the fort and surrounding area opened as Fort Worden State Park.
Date: 1910
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No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-139 with caption: "Fort Stevens, Or," c. 1910. A view of buildings at Fort Stevens, part of the Three Fort Harbor Defense System protecting the mouth of the Columbia River from enemy incursion or attack (the other forts being Fort Columbia and Fort Canby, both in Washington). Built during the Civil War, the fort remained active until after World War II. In June 1942, Fort Stevens gained the dubious distinction of being the only military installation in the continental United States to come under enemy fire when a Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast and fired seventeen missiles at the fort. The missiles destroyed the backstop to the fort's baseball field, but otherwise did little harm. Fort Stevens was decommissioned in 1947. It was later turned over to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, and currently is the site of an Oregon State Park.
Date: 1910
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Correspondence from Charles M. Wollenberg (by Bertha S. Underhill) to Beulah L. Lewis regarding discussion of sixty-day limit on assistance
Date: May 20, 1946
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No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-153 with caption: "Fort Canby Light House, Wash." c. 1910. View of the Cape Disappointment Lighthouse on a rocky point overlooking the mouth of the Columbia River. Cannons and cannon balls are stored on the lighthouse property. Built in the 1850s, the lighthouse was electrified in 1934 and automated in 1973. The lighthouse is now part of the Cape Disappointment State Park (formerly Fort Canby State Park).
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Seattle water-front," c. 1905. View of Seattle's waterfront, as seen from Puget Sound. The Washington Hotel overlooks the city from atop Denny Hill in the center distance, built in the 1890s but destroyed in 1906 when the hill was regraded.
Date: 1905
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No caption. An unidentified young child is seen standing next to a large dog, in a yard at an unidentified location, c. 1906.
Date: 1906
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Memorandum from Sherrill Halbert to Warren Olney regarding a Japanese-American offering services
Date: February 18, 1942
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Caption: "Liberty Cap Rock - Mammoth Hot Springs," c. 1923. Liberty Cap Rock, a 40-foot tall dormant hot spring cone, is located in the Mammoth Hot Springs area of Yellowstone National Park.
Date: 1923
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