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Caption: "Agua Caliente -- Mexico, May 20, 34." Grace McCarthy standing in front of a fountain at the Agua Caliente Casino and Resort. Designed by Wayne McAllister, the resort opened in Tijuana in 1928. It closed only a few years later, in 1935, when Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas outlawed gambling.
Date: 5/20/1934
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No Caption: c. 1910. Ocean shore scene with waves and high spray. The Vue de L'eau (View of the Water) was a station on the Santa Cruz, Garfield Park and Capitola Electric Railway electric streetcar line. Built in 1891, the station was located at the very end of the line, on a promontory overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It featured an observatory on the top story. The same company also built a casino, ballroom, and restaurant nearby. The station burned down in 1925. See also 96-07-08-alb05-074.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Empress Hotel, Victoria, B.C." c. 1935. Built between 1904 and 1908 (Francis Rattenbury, architect), in Beaux-Arts architectural style, the Empress Hotel is located in Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The luxury hotel was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1981.
Date: 1935
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No caption. Obverse of a souvenir ticket for the "Official Pedestrian Day" on May 27, 1937, held as part of the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta celebrating the opening of the now-iconic bridge. The celebrations occupied an entire week, kicked off by Pedestrian Day, when more 200,000 people were allowed to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge on foot or on roller skates, the day before the bridge opened for vehicular traffic.
Date: 5/27/1937
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Caption: "St. James Cathedral - Montreal," c. 1925. The St. James Cathedral in Montreal was consecrated in 1894. At that time, it was the largest church in Quebec. Pope Pious XII rededicated the church in 1955 to Mary, Queen of the World. See also 96-07-08-alb04-092.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Dance of the Queens," c. 1915, shows seven unidentified women standing in a dance position at Healdsburg.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Santa Barbara Court House - Interior," c. 1935, shows a view of the murals painted on the interior walls of the courthouse.
Date: 1935
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No Caption. Grace and William McCarthy with unidentified young woman, standing on a hillside under a large tree, at an unidentified location, c. 1920.
Date: 1920
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No Caption: Grace McCarthy at Lake Tahoe, c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Feather River Inn," c. 1920. Built in 1915 near Blairsden. The property was sold in 1970, becoming the Feather River Preparatory School, before being purchased in 1977 by the University of the Pacific.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Cliff House, San Francisco," c. 1920. 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). The building was extensively remodeled in the 1930s.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Beezle Bill," c. 1935. This is possibly a postcard that shows a comical creature made with parts of pine cones, acorns, feathers, and nuts.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Midway Point.," c. 1920. Now-iconic image of a rocky outcropping near Pebble Beach, extending into the Pacific Ocean, with a single cypress tree near the top. This tree, sometimes referred to as the "Lone Cypress," has been photographed extensively over the past century. This tree and outcropping can still be seen as part of the 17-Mile Drive, a scenic road tour of the Pebble Beach Resort area in Monterey County.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Niagara Falls," c. 1925. View of the three waterfalls that make up the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York. From left to right, the falls are called American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls (the smallest of the three), and Horseshoe Falls.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Elcampo [sic] Grove," c. 1908. William McCarthy on the left, with four unidentified people at El Campo Grove in Marin County.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "Fountain of El Dorado" (Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor), within the West Colonnade of the Tower of Jewels at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "94 Midwood St. Brooklyn." View of a three-story brick house or apartment building, with a park or empty lot on one side. See also 96-07-08-alb11-235, where the building is captioned as "The Walsh Home."
Date: 9/2/1934
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Caption: "State Capitol -- Nevada." Dome of Nevada's Neoclassical Italianate State Capitol Building, constructed between 1869 and 1871 in Carson City. Trees obscure much of the building.
Date: 1927