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Caption: "Venice," c. 1915, shows the site of Villa City Boating, where visitors to the resort seaside village of Venice could purchase gondola rides on the canals to visit the town. The seaside resort was founded by tobacco millionaire, Abbot Kinney in 1905, and designed to be like the namesake Italian city.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "City Hall Monument S.F.," c. 1917, shows a monument at City Hall in San Francisco, topped with a statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare, and United States Army and Marines recruitment posters on easels nearby.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Italian Refugee Hut S.F. -- 1906." Makeshift hut with four unidentified men standing in doorway. After the earthquake and fire that destroyed much of San Francisco in April 1906, hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. Many of these people established temporary refugee camps, using debris from the destruction to cobble together shelters.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Fort Point." c. 1906. See also 96-07-08-alb06-009 with caption: "Fort Point and Golden Gate," and 96-07-08-alb03-118, San Francisco. Fort Point in the foreground, with ships in the bay. Fort Point was part of an effort by the U.S. government to protect the Golden Gate, entrance to the San Francisco Bay. Built between 1853-1861 of brick and mortar, the fort included emplacements for 141 guns but never fired a weapon in defense of the Bay.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "City Hall San Jose," c. 1905 (Theodore Lenzen, Architect), served as the San Jose City Hall from 1889 until it was demolished and replaced in 1958.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Monte Rio Cal," c. 1906. Scene on the Russian River with wharf at right, some houses along the river bank in the distance, and a wooden footbridge crossing the river. Monte Rio, north of San Francisco in Sonoma County, became a resort area in the early twentieth century, after the sawmills providing the area's primary industry closed down.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Scheme No. 1. Addition to Hospital Bldg. San Quentin." Preliminary design of addition of 4th floor to hospital building, San Quentin State Prison, c. 1934. Project for Department of Corrections.
Date: 1934
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No caption, c. 1910. Four large-caliber mortars with associated gun crews at target practice. See also 96-07-08-alb05-106 and 107.
Date: 1910
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Handbook prepared by the Bureau of Public Assistance
Date: June 1942
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