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Caption: "Palace of Horticulture," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Court of Palms," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "California Here We Come. Donner Monument. In Our Home State Again After Five Months Tour. October 7, 1934." William and Grace McCarthy took this photograph of the Pioneer Monument when they arrived back in California after a five month road trip to the East Coast. The Pioneer Monument, featuring a pair of pioneers with their two children looking west, was first dedicated on June 6, 1918 to commemorate those who emigrated to California in the mid 1800s. Today, the monument and surrounding area is known as Donner Memorial State Park. The park was established in memory of the ill-fated Donner Party, a group of emigrants whose wagon train was caught in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the winter of 1846-47. The Pioneer Monument's stone pedestal stands twenty-two feet high, the height of the snow that the party had to contend with. Of the eighty-seven people in the wagon train, only forty-eight survived to be rescued the following spring. Some of the survivors are said to have resorted to cannibalism in order to survive.
Date: 10/7/1934
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Caption: "Blue Lakes," c. 1920. Lake surrounded by wooded mountains.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Ferry Boat Newark." c. 1910, shows the Southern Pacific's ferryboat Newark in the San Francisco Bay.
Date: 1910
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Image withheld due to copyright considerations. For more information, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk at ArchivesWeb@sos.ca.gov or (916) 653-2246. Caption: "A movie dog team -- Truckee." This postcard shows a sled dog team pulling unidentified occupants in snow.
Date: 1927
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Charcoal drawing of Tower Bridge concrete towers, including Sacramento view of Tower Bridge; drawing by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Public Works - Highways - Bridge Department.
Date: 1935
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No Caption: A 1935 three-cent U.S. Postage stamp, featuring Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam, which was constructed between 1931 and 1936. The concrete arch-gravity dam is located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between Clark County, Nevada, and Mojave County, Arizona. A National Historic Landmark, the dam provides hydroelectric power, water storage, flood control, and recreation at Lake Mead, the reservoir created by the dam's construction.
Date: 1935
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No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb05-199 with caption: "12" Disappearing Gun," at unidentified location, c. 1905.
Date: 1905
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Electric Tower, California Midwinter International Exposition
Date: 1893
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Caption: "U.S. 1-inch Gun, Subcaliber Practice." c. 1905. William McCarthy poses next to a large piece of heavy artillery at what appears to be a battery for coastal defense.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Lake Louise - Victoria Glaciers in the distance," c. 1935.
Date: 1935