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Caption: "California-Nevada Boundary Line." Grace McCarthy in driver's seat of automobile, on unpaved road with hillside in the background.
Date: 1927
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Caption: "State Sign, Between Rawlins and Rock Springs, Wyoming. Oct. 1, 1934." William McCarthy standing next to an informational road sign in Wyoming, noting the location as being along the U.S.'s primary Continental Divide.
Date: 10/1/1934
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Caption: "Battery Kinzie firing 'Trial Shots' Aug 1, 1912" and "No 10 Near Pt. Townsend, WA." Battery Kinzie was a coastal defense battery designed to include two 12-inch disappearing guns, installed at Fort Worden. Construction began in 1908. It was turned over to the U.S. Army's Coast Artillery Corps in 1912 for use in defending the entrance to Puget Sound. This postcard shows one of the 12-inch guns firing, with several unidentified men standing nearby holding their hands to their ears.
Date: 8/1/1912
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Caption: "California St. S.F." Shows the devastation from the 1906 earthquake and fires, along California Street in San Francisco, 1906.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "U. S. Post Office, California State Prison - San Quentin. Dept. of Public Works, Division of Architecture, Sacramento. George B. McDougall, State Architect." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler, c. 1935. Built. Project for Department of Corrections.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Palm Avenue," with Palace of Horticulture at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Alum Rock", c. 1910. Grace McCarthy standing in front of the gazebo of Alum Rock Park. The park, founded in 1872, is one of California's oldest municipal parks. The gazebo, the park's oldest standing structure (built in about 1890), features a fountain that used to supply water from the mineral springs in the area. Today, the fountain's water comes from the City of San Jose's municipal supply. See also 96-07-08-alb05-116.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Sulfur Springs," c. 1915, shows a large body of water, likely fed by sulfur springs, at an unidentified location.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Monroe St. Tallahassee -- Florida, June 23 1934." Street scene, showing Tallahassee's Monroe Street. Trees and residences line the roadway, with Spanish moss dripping from some of the trees.
Date: 6/23/1934
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Caption: "Work of Mounting Big Guns, Point Benito [sic]," c. 1906. This may actually be Point Bonita in the San Francisco Bay.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Motoring -- Port Townsend," c. 1908-1912. Grace McCarthy (farthest to the right in backseat) and group of unidentified friends and/or family posing in an automobile in front of a Port Townsend residence.
Date: 1908
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Correspondence from Beulah L. Lewis to Charles M. Wollenberg regarding resettlement assistance; Attachment: General Relief Basic Budget Table No. 33
Date: March 11, 1946
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Written statement arguing in support of AB2710
Date: March 1, 1982
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Caption: "#4 -- Record Oct 25, 09." This postcard shows plume of seawater thrown up by a mortar shell during target practice at Fort Point. The facilities at Fort Point were part of an effort by the U.S. government to protect the Golden Gate, entrance to the San Francisco Bay. Built between 1853-1861, the fort included emplacements for 141 guns but never fired a weapon in defense of the Bay. Its name was officially changed in 1882 to Fort Winfield Scott, but in 1886 the fort was officially downgraded to a sub-post of the San Francisco Presidio and the name discontinued. It was resurrected in 1912, with the establishment of a coastal artillery fortification at the Presidio, called, once again, Fort Winfield Scott.
Date: 10/25/1909
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Caption: "The City Disaster." Photograph of The Seattle Daily Times front page and photographs of the San Francisco earthquake's aftermath with headline: "City Wiped Out! Fire Still Raging!" Dated April 20, 1906.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "City Hall Ruins." Photograph of the former San Francisco City Hall building, destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Date: 1906
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No Caption: An unidentified young girl riding a donkey at Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "N.Y. Sky Scrapers," c. 1925. Bird's eye view of a part of New York City, with the Woolworth building dominating the left side of the photograph. Constructed between 1910 and 1920 and designed by architect Cass Gilbert, the Neo-Gothic building was once the tallest in the world at 792 feet.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City -- Utah.," c. 1916. View of the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Truman O. Angell, architect) in Salt Lake City, Utah, dedicated in 1893. The Brigham Young Monument (also known as the Pioneer Monument) stands at the left. Designed by Cyrus Edwin Dallin, this statue commemorating one of the founders of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints was first displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and moved to its post at Main and South Temple Streets in Salt Lake City in 1897.
Date: 1916
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Caption: "Canada" pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Tablet for Gateway, Full Size Detail." Drawing of entrance gateway, Ventura School for Girls, by Alfred Eichler. Project for California Youth Authority - Institutions.
Date: 1936