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Office Memorandum from Carolyn Rosenberg to Lucile Kennedy regarding children relocating in Los Angeles to attend school
Date: August 27, 1945
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Caption: "Bakersfield-Los Angeles Ridge Route. Note the winding road. (X) marks the road in the distance." c. 1920. Mountain scene showing road winding around hills and ridges, with a few scattered automobiles also present. First opened in 1915, the Ridge Route was the first paved highway connecting Los Angeles with the San Joaquin Valley.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "View from Inspiration Point. Grand Canyon-Yellowstone National Park," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "C.P.R. Depot Vancouver B.C.," c. 1908-1912. View of the imposing, gothic chateau-like Vancouver Station, serving the Canadian Pacific Railway. Built in 1899, this station only stood until 1914, when it was replaced with a newer facility and subsequently demolished.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "The Fairmont," c. 1906. View of the Fairmont Hotel, a luxury hotel in San Francisco. Although construction was mostly finished in 1906, the advent of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of that year damaged the hotel's interior and delayed opening until 1907. It was the first hotel in what is now the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain. In 1945, the San Francisco hotel was host to an international conference that culminated in the formation of the United Nations.
Date: 1906
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No Caption: Fountain of Energy (A. Stirling Calder, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Hotel Vendome. San Jose.," c. 1910. View of the Hotel Vendome, a resort hotel built in San Jose in 1889. The hotel was demolished in 1930, the land subdivided and sold as residential lots.
Date: 1910
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No Caption: Court of the Universe at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. The Panama Pacific International Exposition was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, as well as inventive technologies and new industries from around the world. It was also a chance for San Francisco to show the world how the great city had rebuilt and thrived after the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Sleighing in Port Townsend," c. 1910. Grace McCarthy sitting in horse-drawn sleigh in front of a snow-covered residence in Port Townsend, Washington. See also 96-07-08-alb08-049.
Date: 1910
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Correspondence from Charles M. Wollenberg (by Bertha S Underhill) to Margaret Ann Elwell regarding money paid to individual case
Date: June 22, 1945