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Caption: "Grounds Where Photo Play Intolerance was Staged.," c. 1916. Large columns and building facades built for the Babylon scenes of the 1916 silent film Intolerance (directed by D.W. Griffith). The set was torn down in 1919.
Date: 1916
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Caption: "Long Beach," c. 1915, shows a view of a portion of "The Pike," which was an amusement zone along the shoreline in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1902 by Charles Rivers Drake, a Civil War veteran and early Long Beach developer. The Pike included arcades, gift shops, food stands, a variety of rides, and a grand bath house (the two-story building pictured on the right). After years of disrepair, The Pike was closed in 1979.
Date: 1915
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Summary of meeting "to discuss methods of referral and division of responsibility in cases that presented health problems"
Date: February 13, 1945
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Caption: "The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. July 8, 1934." The imposing resort hotel shown in this photograph was originally called the Palm Beach Inn when it opened in 1896. The original hotel burned down in 1903, reopened in 1904, and burned again in 1925. After the 1925 fire, the building's owners abandoned wood frame construction in favor of concrete. The new hotel building, as shown in this photograph, was reopened in December 1926.
Date: 7/8/1934
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Caption: "Elementary Principles of Machine Design, WM McCarthy," (William McCarthy, Illustrator).
Date: Undated
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Design and color rendering of Dining Hall, California School for the Blind at Berkeley by Alfred Eichler. Annotation: "Dining Hall. Younger boys dormitory at left, older boys dormitory at right." Project for Department of Education.
Date: 1928
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Caption: "Arco de Independencia, on Avenda [sic] Francisco I. Madero, Monterey [sic], Mexico," shows the Arco de Independencia (Arch of independence) on Avenida (Avenue) Francisco I. Madero, in Monterrey, Mexico.
Date: 1938
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All Points Bulletin from Earl Warren to District Attorneys and Sheriffs regarding survey of alien land ownership and conference
Date: January 23, 1942
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Caption: "Mammoth Springs, Yellowstone Park. Summer House - Deer, Elk, Moose and Buffalo horns," c. 1935, shows Grace McCarthy standing at the entrance to a hut made of many antlers, skulls, and bones from elk, deer, moose, and buffalo.
Date: 1935