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Caption: "The Beautiful C.P.R.R. Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, CA.," c. 1935. Built by the Canadian Pacific Railway at the instigation of its president, William Cornelius Van Horne, the luxury Banff Springs Hotel originally opened in 1888 to welcome visitors travelling on the railway. The hotel was renovated and expanded through the years and today is a National Historic Site of Canada, located in Banff National Park, Canada's first National Park.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Swift Current Lake - Glacier National Park, the Garden Wall and McCloud Mountain in the distance," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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No Caption: Grace McCarthy seated on the veranda of the Highlands Inn, which opened in 1917 at Carmel-by-the-Sea, in Monterey County, c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Washington Street, Portland, Oregon," c. 1905. A street scene with electric car, several storefronts, and pedestrians milling about.
Date: 1905
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No caption. View of the western, suspension span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, looking toward San Francisco. The photograph was likely taken from a point on either Treasure Island or Yerba Buena Island.
Date: Undated
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Paso de Bartolo, Viejo. Volume 1, page 132.
Date: 1833
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Caption: "Ringling Museum -- Sarasota -- Florida, June 28 1934." Entrance to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida's state art museum established by John and Mable Ringling in 1927. John was a promoter and part-owner of the famous Ringling Brothers Circus, along with four of his brothers. When John and Mable built a winter home in Sarasota in 1926, they also explored the possibility of establishing an art gallery on the same property. Architect John H. Phillips designed the building, which opened to the public in 1931. John Ringling willed the facility and the art collection to the state of Florida upon his death in 1936. The museum, now known simply as "The Ringling," is under the jurisdiction of the University of Florida.
Date: 6/28/1934
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No Caption: A Yellowstone National Park decal, 1935, octagon-shaped, green and white, with an image of a buffalo in the foreground and mountain range in the background.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Totem Pole, Seattle." Seattle, Washington, c. 1905. View of the Tlingit totem pole in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The totem pole was stolen in 1899 by a group of businessmen, and erected in the square, then known as Pioneer Place. An arsonist destroyed this pole in 1938, but it was later replaced by another carved by the Tlingit tribe (who were also finally paid for the original pole).
Date: 1905
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Caption: "U.S. 10" Gun, Firing Position." A close-up view of a large gun in the firing position at what appears to be a battery for coastal defense.
Date: Undated
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Caption: "Camarillo State Hospital." Design study by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals.
Date: 1932
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Caption: "Fort Worden, Wash.," c. 1909. Panoramic view of Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington, on Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1898. 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: 1909