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Caption: "The Racetrack," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Port Townsend Autoists.," c. 1906. William McCarthy (second from the left) and three unidentified friends in an early, open-roofed automobile.
Date: 1906
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No caption. Clipping from an unidentified newspaper or pamphlet entitled "Route of U.S. air mail route from New York to Macao." It shows an airmail route traveling from New York, west across the U.S. to the Hawaiian Islands, then to "Midway Islands," Wake Island, Guam, "Philippine Islands", and finally Macao, China.
Date: Undated
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No caption, c. 1890. Photograph portrait of unidentified man.
Date: 1890
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Caption: "An Abandoned Hydraulic Mine near Camptonville Calif.," c. 1920. Hillside ravaged by hydraulic mining, in which a pressurized jet of water washes sediment and gravel into a series of sluices, allowing the heavier gold and gold-carrying sediment to sink to the bottom for removal. California banned this environmentally destructive practice in 1884.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "An Old Settler.," undated. Shows an unidentified elderly woman, possibly Native American in ethnicity.
Date: 1906