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Unidentified African-American woman and several children posing on the porch of a wood-plank home. *Please Note:* Original caption removed due to sensitive content. To view the original photograph with caption, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk.
Date: 6/17/1934
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Caption: "Preliminary Study - Administration - Auditorium & Music Bldgs. - Fresno State College." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Not built. Project for Department of Education.
Date: 1946
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Pilarcitos or Las Pilarciros boundaries. Volume 1, page 148.
Date: 1836
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Caption: "Fort Worden Wash.," c. 1908. Overview of Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington, on Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1898, and by 1902 it was serving as an active U.S. Army base. Fort Worden was part of the "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. The U.S. sold the property to the state of Washington in 1957. In 1973, the fort and surrounding area opened as Fort Worden State Park.
Date: 1908
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No Caption: San Joaquin County Courthouse (E.E. Myers, architect), Stockton, California, c. 1906. The neoclassical building was completed in 1890 and demolished in 1961 to make way for a new courthouse.
Date: 1906
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Agua Caliente boundaries. Volume 1, page 186.
Date: 1834
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Caption: "One of the many beautiful homes, in Monterey [sic], Mexico."
Date: 1938
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No Caption: The Cliff House, overlooking bathers at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California, c. 1905. Unidentified people enjoying the surf and beach at Ocean Beach, overlooked by the iconic San Francisco Cliff House. The Victorian structure shown here is the third iteration of the Cliff House, constructed in 1896. It was later destroyed by a fire, in 1907.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Moonlight Scene -- Sierra Summit." Rocky crag in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Date: 1927
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Caption: "Toll Gate -- St Helena Mountain.," c. 1920. Toll gate consists of a long wooden spar across the road, with a small building to the right. Grace McCarthy is standing next to an automobile at the gate. The St. Helena Toll Road, now part of California State Route 29, connected the Napa Valley with Lake County. It was built in 1868, and purchased by the State of California in 1925.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Brigham Young Monument, Salt Lake City.," c. 1916. Designed by Cyrus Edwin Dallin, the Brigham Young Monument (also known as the Pioneer Monument) stands before the Salt Lake Temple in this photograph. The statue was first displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and moved to its post at Main and South Temple Streets in Salt Lake City in 1897.
Date: 1916