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No Caption: c. 1906. Grace McCarthy posing with an unidentified woman, possibly at a photography studio.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Negro Home and Family, Hardeeville, South Carolina, July 16, 1934." Unidentified woman posing with several children in front of a small home. Another woman can be glimpsed seated on the porch of the home in the background.
Date: 7/16/1934
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Caption: "Steamer PRINCESS VICTORIA at Vancouver [sic] dock, B.C.," c. 1908-1912. The Princess Victoria was constructed in 1902 by England's C.S. Swan and Hunter Company shipyards. The luxury passenger ship was operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company on routes between Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia and Seattle in Washington until she was sold in 1951 to an oil carrier. Shortly thereafter, in 1953, she struck a rock and sank.
Date: 1908
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Caption: " Court of the Universe - Colonnades," with the Fountain of the Rising Sun (Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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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