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No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-217 with caption: "Last Rites," shows a grave site with dozens of caskets ready for burial. A priest and two altar boys stand at one side of the caskets, while a large group of US Navy sailors looks on from the other side. While sailing from port in San Diego on the morning of July 21, 1905, the boiler of the USS Bennington exploded, killing sixty-six of her crew. The victims were laid to rest in the cemetery at Fort Rosecrans.
Date: 1905
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No caption. Caption in photograph album (172.0): "City Hall Tower Before and after the Quake." 1906. A view of San Francisco City Hall before the April 18, 1906 earthquake.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Border Monument, Tiajuana [sic] Mexico." William and Grace McCarthy standing in front of the monument placed at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Bush Gardens, Pasadena," c. 1915., shows Grace and William McCarthy relaxing in chairs at Bush Gardens in Pasadena.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Blue Lakes," c. 1920. Lake with surrounding rolling hills/mountains.
Date: 1920
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No Caption: Scenic railway at Venice beach wharf, c. 1915.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Santa Cruz Big Trees," c. 1920. Grace McCarthy standing in a grove of giant sequoias near Santa Cruz, California.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition," "Agricultural Building" and "A.Y.P.E. Seattle Wash." View of the Agricultural Building of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, often referred to as the "A-Y-P." Held in Seattle to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest, the fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Although most of the fair's buildings have since been destroyed, several of them now serve as part of the University of Washington campus.
Date: 1909
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Caption: "Flavel Hotel -- on the Columbia River.," c. 1905-1909. Built at the turn of the century, the Flavel Hotel housed passengers waiting to board steamships of the Great Northern Pacific Steamship Company bound for San Francisco and other ports. The Flavel family constructed the hotel as part of an effort to establish the town of Flavel on Tansy Point along the Columbia River. The town failed to attract sufficient residents, however, and was annexed into Warrenton by 1918.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Grove," c. 1915, shows Grace and William McCarthy standing in the Armstrong Grove near Guerneville.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Service Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Interior Utah State Capitol," c. 1923. This photograph shows part of the main corridor of Utah's State Capitol Building, featuring an equestrian statue of Chief Washakie, leader of the eastern Shoshone (artist unknown). Visible above the entrance to the chambers of the House of Representatives is a mural painted by Gerard Hale and Gilbert White entitled Reclaiming the Desert for Irrigation.
Date: 1923
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No Caption. A Dutch Windmill, at unidentified location, likely at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, c. 1910.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Monterey Shore. - View from Highlands Inn, Calif.," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "K Street Sacramento. Weinstock Lubins Store," Sacramento, California, c. 1910.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Cliff Beach." Shows views of Ocean Beach near the Cliff House in San Francisco, c. 1910.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Robert E, Lee Statue - New Orleans," c. 1925. The Robert E. Lee Memorial in New Orleans was dedicated in 1884. Architect John Ray designed the base and pedestal, while sculptor Alexander Doyle was responsible for the statue itself. The monument commemorated the memory of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, until its removal in 2017.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Michigan AV. - Chicago," c. 1923. Michigan Avenue filled with cars, a double decker bus, and a traffic officer.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Sierra Summit -- Truckee Highway." Mountain scene, showing roadway with car in center of photograph. Likely along what is now Interstate 80.
Date: 1927
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Caption: "The Cliff House," c. 1906, shows several people on Ocean Beach with the third Cliff House that was built on that site in the distance, which burned down in 1907.
Date: 1906