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Caption: "Indian Hut Made from Adobe and Bush Branches, Sacaton Indian Reservation - Sacaton, Arizona," c. 1935. View of a small adobe building with a porch area across the length of the façade. The porch is sheltered by a low roof supported by tree trunks or thick tree branches and thatched with grass or sticks. Located south of Phoenix and including the town of Sacaton, the Gila River Indian Reservation is home to members of the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and the Pee-Posh (Maricopa) tribes. The reservation was established in 1859. Eighty years later, in 1939, Congress provided for the self-governance of the reservation via the Gila River Indian Community.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Steamer PRINCESS VICTORIA at Vancouver [sic] dock, B.C.," c. 1908-1912. The Princess Victoria was constructed in 1902 by England's C.S. Swan and Hunter Company shipyards. The luxury passenger ship was operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company on routes between Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia and Seattle in Washington until she was sold in 1951 to an oil carrier. Shortly thereafter, in 1953, she struck a rock and sank.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "Tally Ho Ride, San Diego.," c. 1905. Group of unidentified people in a horse-drawn wagon, with fringed cover. The wagon has "Kelly's Tally-Ho, Cor. 3rd & F Sts." written on one corner.
Date: 1905
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No Caption: Grace McCarthy is seen standing near the entrance of the Hotel Virginia, on Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach, California. The luxury hotel was opened in 1908 by Col. Charles Rivers Drake, a Civil War veteran and early Long Beach developer. During the Great Depression, the hotel suffered the fate of many businesses during that time and closed its doors in October of 1932.
Date: 1915