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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: "Ferryboat Solano," c. 1906. The Solano was a large railroad ferry that operated across the Carquinez Straight between Benicia and Port Costa in California.
Date: Undated
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Caption: "POINT LOMA BEACH, San Diego." View of rocky cliffs and narrow, rocky beach at their base, with surf swirling just offshore.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Toppling House on Howard Street," 1906. shows two Queen Anne-style houses that have toppled off their foundations after the earthquake.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Berkeley University," c. 1906. Founded in 1868, the University of California at Berkeley was the first of the University of California campuses. This image shows a field of grass and trees in the foreground, three unidentified university buildings in the background, and the Berkeley Hills in the distance.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Ferry Building," c. 1906. A view of the San Francisco Ferry Building (A. Page Brown, architect) during repairs from the 1906 earthquake. The Beaux Arts structure is located on San Francisco's Embarcadero and features a 245 foot tall clock tower, with four clock dials, each 22 feet in diameter.
Date: 1906
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No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb01-066, with caption: "Fountain of the Earth Views," (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "MC Foto - Mage of Presidio." The caption suggests that the dog shown here, possibly a Boston Terrier or Pug, lived in San Francisco's Presidio.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Crater Lake, Oregon - cloud reflections," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Memorandum from C. J. Carey to Warren Olney regarding Japanese within various divisions of the agricultural industry; see Memorandum for Mr. C. J. Carey (R177_089_183-4_004a-R177_089_183-4_004c)
Date: February 18, 1942
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No Caption: Court of Abundance at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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No caption, c. 1920. William McCarthy (far right) and two unidentified women, all in swimsuits.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Palace of Horticulture," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-028.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "On Strawberry Hill. Golden Gate Park.," c. 1910. Image of small waterfall and pond on Strawberry Hill. This hill rises above Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, surrounded by the man-made Stow Lake.
Date: 1910
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