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Caption: "Columbia River Scenes," c. 1920. Waterfall in upper part of photograph, with stream in foreground. A small footbridge can be seen at the base of the second tier of the falls.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Columbia River Scenes," c. 1920. Waterfall with lush vegetation along the Columbia River in Oregon. The Benson Footbridge, built in 1914, can be seen through the trees near the base of the waterfall.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia. July 21, 1934." Virginia's State Capitol is visible in the left side of this photograph, while the Virginia Washington Monument can be seen at the right. The Capitol, designed largely by Thomas Jefferson and French architect Charles-Louis Clérisseau, was sufficiently complete by October 1792 for the Virginia General Assembly to meet within its walls. The building served as the capitol of the Confederacy during the Civil War. The Virginia Washington Monument, completed in 1869, features a 21-foot-tall statue of George Washington, mounted on a horse.
Date: 7/21/1934
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Caption: "Shasta Springs, Calif.," c. 1910. View of a waterfall behind a small gabled building and attached patio. Shasta Springs, just north of Dunsmuir, California, in the Trinity Mountains, was a resort area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It centered around natural springs, which became a featured stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Shasta Route. The resort operated until the 1950s, when it was purchased by private interests.
Date: 1910