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Simon Bolivar (San Francisco)

SIMON BOLIVAR LIBERATOR OF: COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, PANAMA, PERU VENEZUELA AND FOUNDER OF BOLIVIA HE LED THE VICTORIOUS ARMY FROM CARACAS TO POTOSI ENGAGING IN THE CONCLUSIVE BATTLES OF: BOYACA, AUGUST...

SIMON BOLIVAR LIBERATOR OF: COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, PANAMA, PERU VENEZUELA AND FOUNDER OF BOLIVIA HE LED THE VICTORIOUS ARMY FROM CARACAS TO POTOSI ENGAGING IN THE CONCLUSIVE BATTLES OF: BOYACA, AUGUST...

    Cradle of Liberty

    First Plaque CRADLE OF LIBERTY This Memorial honors all who wore the uniform of the United States from the Revolutionary War onward. Beneath the base of the statue lie rocks from the hallowed...

    First Plaque CRADLE OF LIBERTY This Memorial honors all who wore the uniform of the United States from the Revolutionary War onward. Beneath the base of the statue lie rocks from the...

    • war
    • memorial

    Harbor Master's Cottage

    HARBOR MASTER'S COTTAGE The Harbor Master's Cottage was constructed as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) Project in 1937. Renovation of the Cottage was completed in 1993 by the City of Palo...

    HARBOR MASTER'S COTTAGE The Harbor Master's Cottage was constructed as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) Project in 1937. Renovation of the Cottage was completed in 1993 by the City of Palo...

    • palo alto
    • wpa

    VLA Antenna Specifications

    Antenna specifications: Type: Offset cassegrain with asymmetric subreflector Mount: Altitude - Azimuth Focal Ratio: f/.35 Total Weight: 235 Tons Total Height: 29 Meters (94 ft.) when pointed...

    Antenna specifications: Type: Offset cassegrain with asymmetric subreflector Mount: Altitude - Azimuth Focal Ratio: f/.35 Total Weight: 235 Tons Total Height: 29 Meters (94 ft.) when...

    • vla

    VLA Antenna (Electronics)

    The VLA Antenna (Electronics) Weak radio waves from celestial sources are collected by the highly directional antennas. The waves are focused into the receiver by the main dish, subreflector and...

    The VLA Antenna (Electronics) Weak radio waves from celestial sources are collected by the highly directional antennas. The waves are focused into the receiver by the main dish, subreflector...

    • vla

    VLA Antenna (Mechanical)

    The VLA Antenna (Mechanical) These giant antennas, with 25 meter (82 ft.) diameter dishes, were specially designed for the VLA. The aluminum panels of the dish are formed into a parabolic surface...

    The VLA Antenna (Mechanical) These giant antennas, with 25 meter (82 ft.) diameter dishes, were specially designed for the VLA. The aluminum panels of the dish are formed into a parabolic surface...

    • vla

    Carcross Desert

    CARCROSS DESERT AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS THE SMALLEST DESERT IN THE WORLD, THIS AREA WAS ORIGINALLY COVERED BY A LARGE GLACIAL LAKE. AS THE GLACIERS RETREATED. CAUSING LOWER WATER LEVELS, SANDY...

    CARCROSS DESERT AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS THE SMALLEST DESERT IN THE WORLD, THIS AREA WAS ORIGINALLY COVERED BY A LARGE GLACIAL LAKE. AS THE GLACIERS RETREATED. CAUSING LOWER WATER LEVELS, SANDY...

    • yukon
    • carcross
    • desert

    Original Santa Cruz Boardwalk Planks

    These boards are part of the original Santa Cruz Boardwalk and were saved during a res- toration project completed in 1984. This project was one of many completed under Laurence P. Canfield,...

    These boards are part of the original Santa Cruz Boardwalk and were saved during a res- toration project completed in 1984. This project was one of many completed under Laurence P....

    • santa cruz
    • boardwalk

    Moses L. Rosendin County Park

    MOSES L. ROSENDIN COUNTY PARK Louis and Raymond Rosendin have donated this 116-acre parcel of land to Santa Clara County Parks & Recreation Department to honor the memory of their father Moses L....

    MOSES L. ROSENDIN COUNTY PARK Louis and Raymond Rosendin have donated this 116-acre parcel of land to Santa Clara County Parks & Recreation Department to honor the memory of their father Moses L....

    • rosendin

    1545 Divisadero An Historic American Building

    1545 Divisadero An Historic American Building In 1919, N. Gray & Company commissioned engineer James H. Hjul to construct a two-story, wood-frame building on the soutnwest corner of Post and...

    1545 Divisadero An Historic American Building In 1919, N. Gray & Company commissioned engineer James H. Hjul to construct a two-story, wood-frame building on the soutnwest corner of Post...

    • georgian revival
    • san francisco

    Motion Picture Research

    IN COMMEMORATION OF The motion picture research conducted in 1878 and 1879 at the Palo Alto Farm now the site of Stanford University This extensive photographic experiment portraying the attitudes...

    IN COMMEMORATION OF The motion picture research conducted in 1878 and 1879 at the Palo Alto Farm now the site of Stanford University This extensive photographic experiment portraying the...

    • stanford
    • muybridge
    • motion picture

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline Wetlands Project 1998

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline Wetlands Project 1988 Made possible through the efforts of: Golden Gate Audubon Society Save San Francisco Bay Association Sierra Club Funded by: Port of...

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline Wetlands Project 1988 Made possible through the efforts of: Golden Gate Audubon Society Save San Francisco Bay Association Sierra Club Funded by: Port of...

    • wetlands

    Rodin's Gates of Hell

    THE GATES OF HELL Auguste Rodin I have loved these awesome doors since that winter day in 1949 when I first stood below them outside the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia and was terrified at the...

    THE GATES OF HELL Auguste Rodin I have loved these awesome doors since that winter day in 1949 when I first stood below them outside the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia and was terrified at the...

    • stanford
    • rodin
    • sculpture

    Solari Family Windmill

    Solari Family Windmill This windmill was built in the 1880's on the Solari farm, located at Whipple Avenue and Old County Road in Redwood City. It was moved in the 1930's to the new family farm...

    Solari Family Windmill This windmill was built in the 1880's on the Solari farm, located at Whipple Avenue and Old County Road in Redwood City. It was moved in the 1930's to the new family farm...

    • solari windmill
    • redwood city

    Jean Cloud and Jeri Joseph-Hover

    JEAN CLOUD AND JERI JOSEPH-HOVER THE SOLARI WINDMILL IS DEDICATED IN THEIR HONOR BECAUSE OF THEIR DEVOTION TO SAVE LANDMARKS THAT DEFINE THE HISTORY OF REDWOOD CITY. 2007 VOLUNTEERS REDWOOD PARLOR...

    JEAN CLOUD AND JERI JOSEPH-HOVER THE SOLARI WINDMILL IS DEDICATED IN THEIR HONOR BECAUSE OF THEIR DEVOTION TO SAVE LANDMARKS THAT DEFINE THE HISTORY OF REDWOOD CITY. 2007 VOLUNTEERS REDWOOD PARLOR...

    • solari windmill
    • redwood city
    • union cemetery

    Osceola Mills

    OSCEOLA MILLS The first town in the county to receive a railroad in 1862 and the telephone in 1878. In 1874 Berwind-White, the 4th largest coal company in the world, was founded here. The 1875...

    OSCEOLA MILLS The first town in the county to receive a railroad in 1862 and the telephone in 1878. In 1874 Berwind-White, the 4th largest coal company in the world, was founded here. The...

    • osceola mills
    • pennsylvania
    • clearfield county
    • railroad
    • telephone
    • coal
    • horace liveright
    • lakes to the...

    Building a Dome

    Building a Dome The dome-shaped rock that holds Vulcan's Eyeresembles what Lassen Peak—a plug dome volcano—once looked like. Layers of lava from older volcanoes built the mountain to a level near...

    Building a Dome The dome-shaped rock that holds Vulcan's Eyeresembles what Lassen Peak—a plug dome volcano—once looked like. Layers of lava from older volcanoes built the mountain to a level...

    • lassen
    • volcano

    Navajo Springs

    AT NAVAJO SPRINGS DECEMBER 29. 1863 ARIZONA'S TERRITORIAL OFFICIALS TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE DURING A SNOWSTORM GOVERNOR JOHN N GOODWIN AND OTHER OFFICIALS ARRIVING FROM THE EAST BY WAGON TRAIN...

    AT NAVAJO SPRINGS DECEMBER 29. 1863 ARIZONA'S TERRITORIAL OFFICIALS TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE DURING A SNOWSTORM GOVERNOR JOHN N GOODWIN AND OTHER OFFICIALS ARRIVING FROM THE EAST BY WAGON TRAIN...

      Northern Terminus of the Alcan

      NORTHERN TERMINUS OF THE “ALCAN” MILITARY HIGHWAY TO ALASKA THIS HIGHWAY WAS CONSTRUCTED DURING WORLD WAR 2 AS A MILITARY SUPPLY ROUTE TO SUPPLY INTERIOR ALASKA MILITARY INSTALLATIONS AND...

      NORTHERN TERMINUS OF THE “ALCAN” MILITARY HIGHWAY TO ALASKA THIS HIGHWAY WAS CONSTRUCTED DURING WORLD WAR 2 AS A MILITARY SUPPLY ROUTE TO SUPPLY INTERIOR ALASKA MILITARY INSTALLATIONS...

      • alcan
      • alaska
      • wwii

      Rossi Retort

      The Rossi Retort This two-tube inclined retort, known as a “Rossi Retort,” was named after Louis Rossi who came to New Almaden in the 1920s and built a reduction plant based on his patented...

      The Rossi Retort This two-tube inclined retort, known as a “Rossi Retort,” was named after Louis Rossi who came to New Almaden in the 1920s and built a reduction plant based on his...