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Defines groups eligible for various types of public assistance
Date: Undated
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Image of a page from the newspaper Placer Times reporting the Census of 1852 returns.
Date: 1853
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Caption: "Apartments with their White Stone Steps, Baltimore, Maryland. July 30, 1934." View of several apartment buildings, almost identical, sheathed in brick with stone steps leading to the front doors.
Date: 7/30/1934
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Land- Monterey county, or Lomas del Carmelo or Meadows Tract boundaries. Volume 1, page 520.
Date: 1839
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Correspondence from E. J. Clark to Lt. General Joseph H. Swing regarding records pertaining to Japanese examined in 1942
Date: October 9, 1951
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Caption: "Band Concourse," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Hand-drawn sketch map of San Leandro or San Lorenzo boundaries. Volume 2, page 8.
Date: 1843
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Caption: "Office Bldg. Swift & Co - Chicago," c. 1923. The general office of Chicago's Swift and Co., founded by meat packing magnate Gustavus Franklin Smith, Sr. in the late nineteenth century.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Boating on the Russian River - Healdsburg," c. 1915, shows Grace and William McCarthy in a row boat on the Russian River at Healdsburg.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Venice," c. 1915, shows the site of Villa City Boating, where visitors to the resort seaside village of Venice could purchase gondola rides on the canals to visit the town. The seaside resort was founded by tobacco millionaire, Abbot Kinney in 1905, and designed to be like the namesake Italian city.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "City Hall Monument S.F.," c. 1917, shows a monument at City Hall in San Francisco, topped with a statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare, and United States Army and Marines recruitment posters on easels nearby.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Italian Refugee Hut S.F. -- 1906." Makeshift hut with four unidentified men standing in doorway. After the earthquake and fire that destroyed much of San Francisco in April 1906, hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. Many of these people established temporary refugee camps, using debris from the destruction to cobble together shelters.
Date: 1906