Entrance to California Building (Panama-California Exposition)
Book Title: Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915, portfolio (38 gelatin silver prints)
Artist: Francis Bruguiere
Artist Bio: American, 1879 - 1945
Fountain in Botanical Pavillion Pool (Panama-California Exposition)
Artist: Francis Bruguiere
Artist Bio: American, 1879 - 1945
Creation Date: 1915
Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC)
Bransby, David„ photographer.
1942 June
Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif. Navigation classes are part of the school’s program for training its students for specific contributions to the war effort (LOC)
Palmer, Alfred T.„ photographer.
1942 Sept.
![Title: California. The drive in Cooper’s Canon [Cañ́on]
Creator(s): Detroit Photographic Co.,
Date Created/Published: [between 1898 and 1905]
Medium: 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1cdcgEGv21rsr73mo1_500.jpg)
- Title: California. The drive in Cooper’s Canon [Cañ́on]
- Creator(s): Detroit Photographic Co.,
- Date Created/Published: [between 1898 and 1905]
- Medium: 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
On the morning of April 18, 1906, a massive earthquake shook San Francisco, California. Though the quake lasted less than a minute, its immediate impact was disastrous. The earthquake also ignited several fires around the city that burned for three days and destroyed nearly 500 city blocks.
