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Caption: "Bennington's Honored Dead." 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 U.S. 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. See also 96-07-08-alb05-142 and 96-07-08-alb08-217.
Date: 1905-07-23
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Caption: "Fort Columbia, Wash.," c. 1910. Fort Columbia, built between 1896 and 1904, sits on Chinook Point overlooking the Columbia River. It is part of the Three Fort Harbor Defense System protecting the mouth of the river from enemy incursion or attack (the other forts being Oregon's Fort Stevens and Washington's Fort Canby). Fort Columbia was decommissioned after World War II, and is now the site of a Washington State Park.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Snow in July - Yellowstone," c. 1935, shows William McCarthy feeding a bear next to a pile of snow.
Date: 1935
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No caption: A path leading to the John Shields home on Long Island.
Date: 1934
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Two men, a woman, and a child, all unidentified, posing on a porch in Hardeeville. *PLEASE NOTE:* Original caption removed due to sensitive content. To view the original photograph with caption, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk
Date: 7/16/1934
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No caption: Four unidentified men pose next to machinery at the Crockett Sugar Mill, c. 1906.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Presidio Nursery," c. 1906, shows the gardens at the Presidio, with blooming flowers planted to spell "PRESIDIO."
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Clife [sic] House S.F.," c. 1908-1912. View of San Francisco's Cliff House overlooking Ocean Beach. The building shown here is the fourth iteration of the Cliff House, a neo-classical design built after a fire destroyed the Victorian structure previously at the site in 1907. Reconstruction of the iconic restaurant began in 1908, and a new Cliff House opened in 1909 (the building in this photograph). This neo-classical building was extensively remodeled in the 1930s.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "Carson City." Street scene with Grace McCarthy standing next to an automobile.
Date: 1927
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No caption, c. 1915-1920. Unidentified women standing at a summit point in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, at elevation 7,630 feet. She is standing next to a road sign with directions and distances to Placerville and Lake Tahoe listed.
Date: 1920