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No Caption: A page from a tourist brochure detailing how to travel from Laredo to Monterrey, Mexico.
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Panama Pacific International Exposition, General View Looking North," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Fourth and Market, One Year Later," 1907, shows much construction in progress, and completed, to the street and buildings one year after the 1906 earthquake and fires.
Date: 1907
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Caption: "Pueblo Indians at Hopi House, Indian War Dance-Arizona Grand Canyon," c. 1935
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Chicago Fair Grounds, View of Lagoon from Sky Ride. No 1 Agricultural Building. No2 Government Building. Sept. 17, 1934." Bird's eye view of a portion of the fair grounds for Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition. Two of the fair's structures have been labeled in this photograph, including the Agriculture Building, a long low structure, and the Federal Building, featuring three towers representing the three branches of the federal government. The Exposition, a world fair attended by thirty-nine million people, celebrated Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. Originally planned to only run from May to November in 1933, it was such a success that its organizers decided to keep it running for a second season from May through October the following year. The central theme of the Exposition was technological innovation, with a motto of "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms." None of the buildings constructed for the fair are still extant today, having been built as temporary facilities.
Date: 9/17/1934
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Caption: "Touring De Luxe -- Bed Made Up with Tent Rolled Back. Oct. 10, 1934." William and Grace McCarthy posing with the automobile they traveled across the U.S. with, showing it set up for sleeping with a canvas across the top for privacy. The vehicle appears to be a Studebaker sedan, possibly dating from the mid-1920s.
Date: 10/10/1934
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Caption: "Green Hotel, Pasadena, Cal.," c. 1905. View of Castle Green, built as an annex to the Hotel Green in 1899. The original Hotel Green opened for business as a lavish resort in 1894. Its success prompted owner George Gill Green to expand the hotel and build the additional facility shown here, connected to the original hotel by an elaborate enclosed pedestrian bridge (seen at the far right of this photograph). This second building, designed by architect Frederick I. Roehrig with Spanish, Moorish, and Victorian elements, became known as "Castle Green." Business declined in the 1910s, and the complex was sold to a series of investors. In the mid-1920s, Castle Green was subdivided into fifty residential apartments. It remains a residential complex today.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Grand Canyon -- Yellowstone," c. 1920. Rock formations in the first large canyon along Yellowstone River below Yellowstone Falls, in Yellowstone National Park.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Hudson River Boat," c. 1925. The Washington Irving, a three-stack steamer ship, is shown in this photograph. The ship was in operation from 1913 to 1926, when it collided with an oil barge and sank.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Beautiful equestrian costumes -beautiful senoritas and escorts - a frequent Sunday morning sight - Mexico City."
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Office buildings and stores at the Zocalo - Mexico City."
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Columbia River R. R.," c. 1910. View of railroad tracks along the Columbia River, with some train cars next to a high bank or cliff.
Date: 1910
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No Caption: c. 1935. Fannette Island is located in Emerald Bay, on the west shore of Lake Tahoe. In 1928, Mrs. Lora Josephine Knight purchased the property encompassing the head of Emerald Bay and Fannette Island. Knight had a summer home built in Scandinavian architectural style and called it Vikingsholm. The stone structure at the top of Fannette island is the "Tea House," built in 1928-1929, at the same time Vikingsholm was built.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Santa Barbara Mission," c. 1910. View of Mission Santa Barbara, established by Spanish Franciscan monks in 1786.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Blue Lakes Resort -- Lake County," c. 1920. Lake with resort buildings in center of photograph, mountains in the background.
Date: 1920