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Caption: "Alligator Farm, Los Angeles," c. 1935, shows a large group of alligators in a pen.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Utah State Capitol. Salt Lake City." c. 1923. View of Utah's State Capitol Building, designed by Richard K.A. Kletting and built between 1912 and 1916.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Mary." Elderly woman with shawl and metal pail standing in front of fence.
Date: 1927
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Caption: "Yellowstone - Grand Canyon," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The Yellowstone River can be glimpsed at the bottom of the Canyon near the center of the photograph. The Canyon is approximately 24 miles long, and between 800 and 1,200 feet deep.
Date: 1923
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No Caption: Court of Abundance at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Colonnades of the Agriculture and Transportation Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "The Battery, Lower Manhattan, New York, N.Y [sic], Aug. 4, 1934." This photograph shows the Manhattan skyline, as well as the Battery, a 25-acre park at the tip of Manhattan Island. The park was named for the artillery batteries that used to protect the city and its harbor from this location.
Date: 8/4/1934
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Caption: "Liberal Arts Building, Portland Exposition." View of the Manufactures, Liberal Arts, and Varied Industries Building at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. The exposition was held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Fountain of the Earth Views," (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), in the Court of Abundance at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "The Chutes, S.F," c. 1905. View of the Fulton Street Chutes, a 350-foot water slide. Boats or toboggans careened down the slide into a man-made lake at the bottom. Such "chutes" were very popular throughout the U.S. and Europe at the turn of the century. The Fulton Street Chutes operated from 1902-1907 as part of an amusement park area that also featured the "Circle Swing Flying Machine" (also visible in the photograph), a theater, bar, merry-go-round, and a zoo.
Date: 1905