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  • eichler_f3274_017
    eichler_f3274_017

    Caption: "Detail of Tower." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1930. This was one of the first border stations and was situated in desert country; its purpose was to provide a stopping place for inspection of motor traffic coming into California in order to enforce quarantine against insect infestation of California agricultural products. Project for Department of Agriculture.

    Date: 1930

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 215
    McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 215

    Caption: "Smith Bldg. Seattle, Wash.," c. 1915. View of the neoclassical Smith Tower in Seattle, built by industrialist Lyman Cornelius Smith. At the time of its completion in 1914, the Smith Tower was the tallest building on the West Coast, until being superseded by the Space Needle in 1962.

    Date: 1915