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Caption: "Bobs Service Station - Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles," c. 1935, shows Bob Spencer's Mobil gas service station, which was built around a grounded Fokker F32, whose wings served as a canopy for the fueling stations.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Court of Four Seasons," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Elcampo [sic] Grove." c. 1908. William McCarthy sitting with two unidentified woman at El Campo Grove in Marin County.
Date: 1908
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No caption. Undated clippings from unidentified pamphlets or newspapers. The first describes the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, while the second provides details regarding the Golden Gate Bridge.
Date: Undated
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Caption: "Portion of Cities [sic] Beauty, Washington, D.C. July 26, 1934, Taken from Washington Capitol Dome." Bird's eye view of a portion of Washington, D.C., showing Upper and Lower Senate Parks.
Date: 7/25/1934
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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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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: "Target Practice," c. 1908. This postcard shows a plume of seawater thrown up by a mortar shell during target practice at Fort Point. 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. See also 96-07-08-alb05-322.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "Avenida Paseo de la Reforma - apartment houses on the right. Mexico City."
Date: 1938