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No Caption: Court of Abundance at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Columbia River Jetty, Or.," c. 1905. View of a dilapidated jetty that once carried railroad tracks. Portions of the jetty appear to have been destroyed or washed away.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Dutch Windmill Golden Gate Park," in San Francisco, c. 1906.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Fountain of the Earth Views," (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), in the Court of Abundance at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Entrance to Social Hall, Students Union, Fresno." Drawing of Student Activities Building, Fresno State College. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Education.
Date: 1940
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Image of Census of 1852, page 186 from Calaveras County Schedule I Volume III.
Date: 1852
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Caption: "Olvera St. Mexican Section of Los Angeles, May 18, 1934." View of the Olvera Street Market in Los Angeles. In 1926, Christine Sterling began efforts to preserve the buildings on and around Olvera Street (one of the oldest parts of Los Angeles). After several years of struggle and fundraising, Olvera Street was closed to automobile traffic in 1929, and opened as the Paseo de Los Angeles in 1930. The street and its market quickly became popular tourist sites, promoters touting the area as "A Mexican Street of Yesterday in a City of Today."
Date: 5/18/1934
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Caption: "Utah State Capitol. Salt Lake City." c. 1923. View of Utah's State Capitol Building, designed by Richard K.A. Kletting and built between 1912 and 1916.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Fallen Leaf Lodge." Grace McCarthy standing in front of a resort lodge, likely near Fallen Leaf Lake, just south of Lake Tahoe.
Date: 1927
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Caption: "Union Depot St. Louis," c. 1923. Opened in 1894, the St. Louis Union Depot was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970. Designed by Theodore Link, the building features a 280-foot-tall clock tower. At the time of its construction, it was the largest, busiest railroad station in the world.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Liberal Arts Building, Portland Exposition." View of the Manufactures, Liberal Arts, and Varied Industries Building at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. The exposition was held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.
Date: 1905