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Caption: "Field Officers Quarters, East Cantonment - Presidio S. F." Preliminary design by Alfred Eichler. Project for California Military Department.
Date: 1939
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Caption: "Mountain Lake, Bok Singing Tower in the Distance -- Florida, June 26, 1934." Lake scene, with lush vegetation and the Singing Tower of Bok Tower Gardens visible in the center of the photograph. Mountain Lake, named for the lake near which it was established, was founded by Frederick S. Ruth in 1916.
Date: 6/26/1934
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Caption: "Missouri River Bridge," c. 1923. The Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge connects Council Bluffs, Iowa, with Omaha, Nebraska. The rail truss bridge was the third in the location, opening in 1916.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "San Diego Armory." Design and drawing of California National Guard Armory, San Diego, by Alfred Eichler. Project for California Military Department.
Date: undated
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Caption: "Ocean Beach, S.F.," c. 1910. Scene at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, with eating establishment Murray's in the background. The photograph features both motor car and horse-and-buggy transportation methods.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Forrestry [sic] Building, Portland Exposition." View of the Forestry Building of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. Constructed of approximately one million board feet of lumber, including dozens of unpeeled, old-growth tree trunks, the building was purchased by the City of Portland after the Exposition. The building was later destroyed by fire, in 1964. The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition was held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "France," shows the French Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The French Pavilion, an homage to the Palais de Legion d'Honneur in Paris, provided the inspiration for the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco. See also 96-07-08-alb01-135.
Date: 1915