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Caption: "Touring De Luxe -- All Set for a Comfortable Rest. Oct. 10, 1934." William and Grace McCarthy posing with posing with the automobile they traveled across the U.S. with, showing it set up for sleeping with a canvas pulled across the top and windows for privacy. The vehicle appears to be a Studebaker sedan, possibly dating from the mid-1920s.
Date: 10/10/1934
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No Caption: Santa Fe Depot, Stockton, California, c. 1906. The Santa Fe Depot (William Benson Storey, architect) was completed in 1899 for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, the depot was renovated and restored it to its original design and reopened in 2005.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Union Square & Dewey Monument," c. 1908. St. Francis Hotel at Union Square, with the Dewey Monument in the foreground (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), which commemorated U.S. Admiral George Dewey's naval victory at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American War of 1898. The luxury hotel opened in 1904, and, fortunately, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. It was expanded in 1913, and 1972, making it one of the largest hotels in the city.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "Trestle in Northern California," c. 1906, shows a railroad trestle nestled among trees and hills.
Date: 1906
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