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Caption: "Avenue of Palms - Looking East," with Fageol car, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb03-041.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Desert View Tower - Arizona Grand Canyon," c. 1935. The Desert View Watchtower, built in 1932, was designed by architect Mary Colter in the style of Ancestral Puebloan watchtowers.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Physician Residences Agnews." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Not built. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals.
Date: 1928
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Caption: "The Arrival of the Atlantic Fleet at the Golden Gate -- May 6, 1908. San Francisco, California." and "Copyright 1908, Chas. Weidner, S.F." This photograph, by Charles Weidner, shows the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet, consisting of sixteen battle cruisers and various support vessels, steaming toward the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay. President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the Atlantic Fleet (later called the "Great White Fleet" because the ships were painted white with gold trim) on a tour around the world, beginning in December 1907, to show American goodwill and also demonstrate the power of the U.S. Navy. The Fleet reached the Golden Gate, entrance to San Francisco Bay, on May 6, 1908.
Date: 5/6/1908
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Caption: "Portals of the Past," c. 1915. A monument in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, on the shores of Lloyd Lake, consisting of a white marble archway and columns. The archway was originally part of the Nob Hill mansion belonging to railroad tycoon Alban Towne. The mansion was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, but the entryway still stood. It was moved to the shore of Lloyd Lake in 1909, as a memorial to the pre-1906 city.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "U.S. 5-inch Gun Dismantled." A close-up view of a dismantled large gun at an unidentified location.
Date: Undated
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Caption: "Biltmore Hotel -- Phoenix, Arizona, May 24, 34." View of the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, part of the Bowman-Biltmore hotel chain. Designed by Albert Chase McArthur (with some collaboration from Frank Lloyd Wright), the hotel opened for business in 1929.
Date: 5/24/1934
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Caption: "Resident Section -- Los Angeles," 1915-1916. The Bernheimer Brothers' mansion, built in 1914, can be seen on a hill in the center of the photograph, while another mansion is featured at the left side of the image.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Hermits Rest - Grand Canyon of Arizona," c. 1935, shows Grace McCarthy sitting under an archway made of large boulders, with a bell hanging down from the top center, and "Hermits Rest" spelled out on one of the rocks.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Oregon Building Interior," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-134.
Date: 1915
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No Caption: An unidentified California Indian man standing in front of a wigwam covered in tree bark, and wearing a feather headdress, feather skirt, beads, and moccasins, c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption, c. 1906. Unidentified baby in stroller, located in a park or garden.
Date: 1906
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No caption, c. 1912-1915. Two unidentified women with four children, one of which (standing next to women at far left) is the same toddler who appears in 96-07-08-alb05-083 and 084.
Date: 1915