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Caption: "Main Entrance, Cottage No. 11, Stockton Farm." Stockton State Hospital. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Kitchen - Stockton State Hospital." Design and sketch by Alfred Eichler, c. 1932. Modified and built, contract architect. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals.
Date: 1932
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Caption: "Opening Day, Nov. 12, 1936, San Francisco, Oakland Bay Bridge, Before the Traffic Started." View of the San Francisco terminus of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Built between May 1933 and its opening on November 12, 1936, the Bay Bridge's design combined three different types of bridge-building technology over the five miles it covers between San Francisco and Oakland: a suspension span, a cantilevered span, and a tunnel. At the time of its completion the bridge was the longest steel structure on the globe. It also featured the deepest bridge pier ever built, and the world's largest bore tunnel.
Date: 11/12/1936
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Caption: "Kitchen Addition, Pacific Colony. Section thro Vestibule - Lobby & D. R. Doors. Knotty pine." Design and drawing of kitchen addition, Pacific State Hospital, by Alfred Eichler. Built. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals. The hospital was initially named Pacific Colony (1927-1953), followed by Pacific State Hospital (1953-1979); Frank D. Lanterman State Hospital and Developmental Center; and finally Lanterman Developmental Center, which closed in 2015.
Date: 1936
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Caption: "Houston Ship Channel Ferry -- Houston Tex. June 9, 34." View of a ferry with a single vehicle on board, crossing the Houston Ship Channel. The dredged channel was opened in 1914 as part of the Port of Houston.
Date: 6/9/1934