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Caption: "Explanatory Detail. Kitchen & Dining Room - Pac Colony State Narcotic Hosp." Pacific State Hospital. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler, 1940 (May and June). Built. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals. The hospital was initially named Pacific Colony (1927-1953), followed by Pacific State Hospital (1953-1979); Frank D. Lanterman State Hospital and Developmental Center; and finally Lanterman Developmental Center, which closed in 2015.
Date: 1940
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Correspondence from E. J. Clark to District Director regarding restoration of licenses to Japanese who held licenses on December 7, 1941; see Response to Correspondence on Restoration of Licenses (F3718_322_002c-F3718_322_002d)
Date: October 16, 1951
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Caption: "Government Building. Portland Exposition." Shows the Government Building, Guild's Lake, and the Bridge of Nations, a long pedestrian bridge over the lake. Some of the more than 100,000 light bulbs used to outline the exposition's buildings can be seen along the arches and decorative molding of the bridge. The Lewis and Clark Centennial 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. See also 96-07-08-alb08-158.
Date: 1905
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Design and drawing of unidentified California National Guard Armory by Alfred Eichler. Project for California Military Department.
Date: undated
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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: "San Pedro Harbor," c. 1910. View of San Pedro Bay, with harbor facilities such as wharves and cranes in the background. San Pedro Bay was declared the official port for Los Angeles in 1897.
Date: 1910
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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
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Caption: "Soldier Life," c. 1910. A view of soldiers on horseback, pulling heavy artillery up an embankment, at an unidentified location.
Date: 1910