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Caption: "A natural palm grove on the highway near Villa Juarez, Mexico."
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Washington State Capitol -- Olympia.," c. 1920. Also known as The Castle, this building served as Washington's state capitol building from 1905 to 1928, when the Legislature moved into the current building. The central tower of The Castle was lost in a 1928 fire, while numerous other towers fell to the 1949 Olympia earthquake. Some of those towers have been restored.
Date: 1920
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No caption, c. 1915-1920. Several people (including William and Grace McCarthy at the far left) picnicking at an unidentified location.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "U.S. Capitol," c. 1925. An unidentified man sits in the drivers seat of a car parked in front of the U.S. Capitol. His passengers are obscured by shadow.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Government exhibits of shot etc., Government Building." Exhibit of various types of heavy ordnance shells, including armor piercing shells as well as torpedoes. The exhibit was located in the Government Building of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, 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-alb05-206.
Date: 1905