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Caption: "The Chutes, S.F," c. 1905. View of the Fulton Street Chutes, a 350-foot water slide. Boats or toboggans careened down the slide into a man-made lake at the bottom. Such "chutes" were very popular throughout the U.S. and Europe at the turn of the century. The Fulton Street Chutes operated from 1902-1907 as part of an amusement park area that also featured the "Circle Swing Flying Machine" (also visible in the photograph), a theater, bar, merry-go-round, and a zoo.
Date: 1905
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No Caption: A Yosemite National Park decal, 1937, octagon-shaped, blue and white, with an image of a mountain lion with Half Dome in the background.
Date: 1937
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No caption. Grace McCarthy and an unidentified woman posing beside large bird bath or fountain, in front of the John Shields residence in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island. See also 96-07-08-alb04-071 and 96-07-08-alb11-230.
Date: 8/27/1934
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Caption: "Scene on the Placerville Highway." Grace McCarthy standing near an automobile on the side of an unpaved road, today's U.S. Route 50, east of Placerville.
Date: 1927