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Caption: "Taxco Cathedral interior. San Sebastian y Santa Prisca."
Date: 1938
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Tajui, Agua Caliente or Valle de San Jose boundaries. Volume 1, page 618.
Date: 1840
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Caption: "Seattle totem pole. Seattle Population 375,000," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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One side of a flier handed out by the San Antonio Reptile Garden in the mid-1930s entitled "Reptile Facts." The Reptile Garden opened in the 1930s as a fundraising facility for the Witte Museum. The Garden featured turtle races, snake handling demonstrations, fried rattlesnake meat, and rattlesnake dinner fund raisers. It also became a research center for the use of antivenom. The Garden closed in the early 1940s, its live snakes donated to the San Antonio Zoo.
Date: 1934
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No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb05-199 with caption: "12" Disappearing Gun," at unidentified location, c. 1905.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "On the Tunnel Road to Oakland.," c. 1920. Foothills of California's Coastal Range, near the San Francisco Bay area.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Casino Santa Cruz.," c. 1910. View of beach and casino building in Santa Cruz. The casino, designed by William Weeks, was constructed in 1907, replacing a previous casino building that burned down in 1906.
Date: 1910
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No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-262 with caption: "Mexican Hut, Carlsbad, N.M." New Mexico, c. 1905. A view of an unidentified man standing in front of a dwelling.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Japanese Garden, Golden Gate Park.," c. 1905. View of the five-acre Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Established in 1894 by George Turner Marsh for the Midwinter Exposition of that year, it is the oldest public Japanese Tea Garden in the U.S.
Date: 1905
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No caption, c. 1917. Group of men posing on 6" Howitzers at Camp Kearney. William McCarthy is standing in a dark suit just beneath the barrel of the middle gun. Camp Kearney was established by the U.S. Army in 1917 just north of San Diego. The post was largely abandoned by the government in 1920, used as a military and civilian airfield. It did not see increased military service again until the 1930s.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "South Gardens," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915