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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
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Caption: "Empire State Building in Center, Lower Manhattan in the Distance. View from Radio City Bldg. New York. Aug. 3, 1934." The Empire State Building dominates this bird's eye view of New York. Construction began on this iconic 102-story building, designed by William F. Lamb, in 1930. Completed by early 1931, it held the title of world's tallest building for almost 40 years, until being surpassed in 1970 by the construction of the World Trade Center's North Tower. It is now the fifth-tallest building in the U.S., and the 28th-tallest in the world.
Date: 8/3/1934
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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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No caption, 1913. U.S. Two-Cent commemorative postage stamp, celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal. The stamp, issued in 1913, features an image of two ships passing through the locks of the Canal.
Date: 1913