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Caption: "The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. July 8, 1934." The imposing resort hotel shown in this photograph was originally called the Palm Beach Inn when it opened in 1896. The original hotel burned down in 1903, reopened in 1904, and burned again in 1925. After the 1925 fire, the building's owners abandoned wood frame construction in favor of concrete. The new hotel building, as shown in this photograph, was reopened in December 1926.
Date: 7/8/1934
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Caption: "Armory - California National Guard - Long Beach." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built. Project for California Military Department.
Date: 1931
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Caption: "Niagara Falls," c. 1925. View of Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the three waterfalls that make up the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Wreck on the Vallejo Napa Line." Photograph showing some of the train cars involved in a June 19, 1913 accident in which two trains of the San Francisco, Napa Valley and Calistoga Railroad collided head-on approximately 2.4 miles north of Vallejo. Ten passengers and three railroad employees were killed, and twenty-eight others injured.
Date: 1913-06-19
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No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-114 with caption: "Ferry Boat Tacoma on the Columbia River," Pacific Northwest, c. 1905. View of the railroad ferry Tacoma, with a train on board. The Tacoma operated from 1884 until 1908, when a railroad bridge was constructed across the Columbia River, connecting Portland, Oregon, with points north of the river.
Date: 1905