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Caption: "Mormon Temple, Manti, Utah," c. 1935. Completed in 1888, the Manti Temple, built in Gothic Revival architectural style by the Church of the Latter-day Saints, was the third temple built west of the Mississippi River.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "San Diego Exposition," c. 1915-1916. View of an artificial lagoon, with the Commerce and Industries Building (tower at left, now called Casa de Balboa) and the Foreign Arts Building (tower at right, now called the House of Hospitality). The Panama-California Exposition was held in San Diego in 1915 and 1916 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. It was smaller in scale and less well-funded than the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in 1915 in San Francisco. See also 96-07-08-alb04-111, and 112.
Date: 1915
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No Caption: Fountain of Earth (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Highlands Inn," c. 1920. Grace McCarthy sitting on a bench on the stone and timber porch of the Highlands Inn in Carmel Highlands, a few miles south of Carmel-by-the-Sea. The hotel was built in 1917.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Fort Worden. Mid Winter." Construction of Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington, on Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound began 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: 1909
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Caption: "6th. St. At Pine - St. Louis," c. 1923. A bustling street scene on 6th Street in St. Louis, at its intersection with Pine.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Jackson Park Beach - Chicago," c. 1923. Jackson Park Beach at Lake Michigan, with a line of automobiles parked along the adjacent roadway.
Date: 1923