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Caption: "Upper Falls -Yellowstone Grand Canyon," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Yosemite Falls," c. 1917. Both Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls can be seen in this photograph, taken at a location near the base of Lower Yosemite Fall. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, it is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "President Roosevelt in Vallejo," c. 1903. President Theodore Roosevelt came to California in 1903, visiting several cities and towns, including Vallejo, where he laid the cornerstone of the Navy YMCA. Thousands traveled to Vallejo to greet the president, most by steam railroad.
Date: 1903
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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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