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Caption: "Court House, Port Townsend, Wash.," c. 1908-1912. View of the Jefferson County Courthouse in Port Townsend, Washington. Built the early 1890s and designed by W. A. Ritchie, the Romanesque-style building features a 124-foot clock tower, red bricks from St. Louis, and sandstone from Alaska.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "Agricultural Building, Portland Fair, 1905." View of the Agriculture and Horticulture 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
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Caption: "Agua Caliente Mexico, May 20, 34." View of an elaborate large arch over a roadway, pointing the way to Hotel Agua Caliente in Tijuana. The Agua Caliente Casino and Resort Hotel, designed by Wayne McAllister, opened in Tijuana in 1928. The resort closed only a few years later, in 1935, when Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas outlawed gambling.
Date: 5/20/1934
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Caption: "Cooking Apparatus. One in Place on Motor, Two Removed. Oct. 10, 1934." This photograph shows three metal boxes used by the McCarthys for cooking during their five-month cross-country auto trip. One of the boxes is set on the engine of their automobile to heat the contents.
Date: 10/10/1934
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Caption: "Zion Canyon - Zion National Park - view from Temple of Sinawava," c. 1935. The Temple of Sinwava, a massive natural amphitheater marks the beginning of Zion Canyon. A paved trail following the Virgin River upstream leads through ever narrowing sandstone canyons to the Zion Narrows.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Court of the Four Seasons," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Broadway, San Diego," c. 1915, one of the city's main thoroughfares.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Mortar Carriage Damaged in Test - Honolulu," c. 1906.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "One of the many grand residences in Chapultepec Heights, Mexico City."
Date: 1938