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No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb05-185, with caption: "Council Crest -- Portland," Buildings and benches in a park setting, with a tall observation tower, labeled the "Observatory," at the right side of the photograph. Council Crest Park in Portland, Oregon was the site of an amusement park between 1907 and 1929. The buildings in this photograph were part of that park. The Observatory, built in 1907, was demolished in 1941 to make room for a water tower. The area is still in use as a municipal park.
Date: 1909
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Caption: "Mirror Lake - Yosemite National Park," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Power Plant of the Ford Factory - Detroit," c. 1925. View of the power house at Ford's Highland Park Plant (considered to be the birthplace of the industrial assembly line). The plant's five smoke stacks have a "FORD" sign across them, flanked by two water towers.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Office Bldg. Swift & Co - Chicago," c. 1923. The general office of Chicago's Swift and Co., founded by meat packing magnate Gustavus Franklin Smith, Sr. in the late nineteenth century.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Model Orange Orchard P.C. Exposition, San Diego, Cal."
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Roman Plunge -- Del Monte.," c. 1920. The Hotel Del Monte, near Monterey, featured a "roman plunge," a swimming pool built in 1915.
Date: 1920