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Hand-drawn sketch map of San Pedro boundaries. Volume 1, page 82.
Date: 1835
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No Caption: c. 1915, William McCarthy began his career as an inspector of armaments for the U.S. War Department at the Benicia Arsenal in 1903. The arsenal was established in 1851 as the first Ordnance Supply Depot in the West, from which it supplied and supported U.S. troops from the Civil War through WWII and the Korean War. It was deactivated in 1963.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Biltmore Hotel -- Phoenix, Arizona, May 24, 34." View of the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, part of the Bowman-Biltmore hotel chain. Designed by Albert Chase McArthur (with some collaboration from Frank Lloyd Wright), the hotel opened for business in 1929.
Date: 5/24/1934
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Correspondence from Azile H. Aaron to Charles M. Wollenberg regarding using resettlement assistance funds to purchase garden tools
Date: August 8, 1945
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Caption: "Fort Baker, California," c. 1910. Fort Baker was constructed between 1901 and 1910 to provide permanent housing for the new seacoast fortifications that were built between 1897 and 1905. The men stationed at Fort Baker were members of the Coast Artillery Corps, officially created in 1907 by the U.S. Army to protect and defend the nation's harbors.
Date: 1910
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Correspondence from J. P. Hofman to Martha A. Chickering regarding rumors to disenfranchise Japanese-Americans; see Response to Correspondence on Exclusionary Actions (F3729_50_001a)
Date: May 25, 1942
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Correspondence from Leroy McCormick to State Department of Social Welfare regarding relocation of Japanese to Tulare County
Date: April 16, 1942
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Tags "to be attached to hand baggage carried by person, to be retained by person to whom issued, and to be taken by medical examiner"
Date: Undated
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Caption: "Entrance - Mariposa Grove- Yosemite," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy stands with an automobile near the entrance to Maripose Grove in Yosemite National Park. The Mariposa Grove, near Wawona, is the largest grove of Giant Sequoia trees in Yellowstone National Park. It also includes two of the thirty largest Giant Sequoias in the world.
Date: 1917
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No Caption: A scene from the 1909 Portola Festival, a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.
Date: 1909
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Date: 1963
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Caption: "Front Elevation - North." Design and drawing of Assembly Building, Governor's Hall, State Fair, Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, by Alfred Eichler. Built. The building was called Merriam Hall when Frank Merriam was governor (1934-1939). Project for Department of Finance - Fairs and Expositions.
Date: 1937
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Caption: "Jupiter Terrace - Mammoth Hot Springs - Yellowstone Park," c. 1923. Jupiter Terrace is part of the Lower Terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs. A group of riding horses is seen at lower left, and a road flanks what appear to be observation points at the bottom right.
Date: 1923