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No Caption: View of what appear to be some type of shipping container, possibly in a dry dock.
Date: 8/28/1915
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Caption: "Mascot Monarch Grizzly, G. G. Park," c. 1910. Captured in 1889, by a man hired by William Randolph Hearst as a publicity stunt, Monarch was one of the last known Grizzly bears in California. He lived in captivity for the last 22 years of his life, mostly in an enclosure in Golden Gate Park, before he died in 1911.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Public Market, Long Beach, Calif, May 18, 1934." Small street market in Long Beach, showing a flower vendor, fruit or vegetable vendors, and a few other stalls too distant to make out the merchandise.
Date: 5/18/1934
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Caption: "Bennington's Honored Dead." Shows a grave site with dozens of caskets ready for burial. A priest and two altar boys stand at one side of the caskets, while a large group of U.S. Navy sailors looks on from the other side. While sailing from port in San Diego on the morning of July 21, 1905, the boiler of the USS Bennington exploded, killing sixty-six of her crew. The victims were laid to rest in the cemetery at Fort Rosecrans. See also 96-07-08-alb05-142 and 96-07-08-alb08-217.
Date: 1905-07-23
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Caption: "Views from Highlands Inn," c. 1920. View of the D.L. James House, designed by Charles Greene and built in 1918. The picturesque stone house sits atop a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, a few miles south of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Hollywood.," c. 1915. Street scene in Hollywood, California. The Hotel Hollywood is visible at the left side of the photograph. The hotel, originally built in 1902 and expanded in 1905, served as a social venue for many of Hollywood's early film stars. It was torn down in 1956 to make way for an office building.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Scene On The Tioga Road," c. 1917. In a photograph taken from the Tioga Road, a massive granite dome rises above the trees in Yosemite National Park.
Date: 1917