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Caption: "Old Geary Street Line -- Last Days Work of our Old Faithful Friend." Photograph of a horse-drawn cable car, on the last day of operation of the Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway. One of the first railways established in San Francisco, the line operated from 1880 until May 1912 when it was taken over by the city and converted to an electric streetcar line.
Date: 1912-05
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Caption: "State Dept. of Public Works Div. of Architecture - Gymnasium - San Diego State Teachers College." Drawing of Women's Gymnasium by Alfred Eichler. Design by H. S. Hazen, 1932. Built. Project for Department of Education.
Date: 1932
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Correspondence from Earl Warren (by Warren Olney) to Major Lemeul B. Schofield regarding a request for use of the Immigration and Naturalization Service's alien registration records in legal proceedings to enforce the Alien Land Laws
Date: March 3, 1942
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Caption: "Mortar Gun Practice -- Full Service, Fort Worden, Pt Townsend, Wash," c. 1910. The postcard shows several Howitzers, one of which is firing, as well as a group of men standing to the side with their hands over their ears. Construction began on Fort Worden in 1898, and by 1902 it was serving as an active U.S. Army base. Fort Worden was part of the "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. The U.S. sold the property to the state of Washington in 1957. In 1973, the fort and surrounding area opened as Fort Worden State Park.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Main [sic] Memorial Statue - Central Park N. Y." c. 1925. The monument was designed by Harold Van Buren Magonile, while the statuary was created by Attilio Piccirilli. The memorial, dedicated in New York City's Central Park in 1913, honors the more than 260 men killed aboard the USS Maine when the ship exploded in Havana's harbor during the Spanish-American War in 1898.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Bonneville Dam under construction - Columbia River, Oregon," c. 1935. Construction on the dam and first powerhouse began in 1934.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Riverside Villa Healdsburg July 1914," shows William and Grace (right) McCarthy and an unidentified woman at the Riverside Villa resort along the Russian River in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California.
Date: 1914
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Caption: "A Santa Cruz Big Tree," c. 1905, General Grant, located in Santa Cruz Big Tree Grove.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Reservoir -- Fallon Nevada.," c. 1915-1920. View of Lahontan Dam on the Carson River, between Fallon and Carson City, Nevada.
Date: 1915
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Dos Pueblos boundaries. Volume 2, page 2.
Date: 1842
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Caption: "Sketch of Ward Building, Stockton State Hospital." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1946. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals.
Date: 1940
