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Six Feet Apart We Sit In Solidarity

Six Feet Apart We Sit In Solidarity: This Installation Stands In Honor Of The Class Of 2020 Who Did Not Get To Finish Their Senior Year On Campus And The Berkeley High Community Who Made It...

Six Feet Apart We Sit In Solidarity: This Installation Stands In Honor Of The Class Of 2020 Who Did Not Get To Finish Their Senior Year On Campus And The Berkeley High Community Who Made...

    Heart's Delight

    Heart's Delight Here in 1903 William H. Miner developed a 15,000 acre farm employing over 800 workers and utilizing the latest advances in science and technology. Photo/submitted by Alan R Reno

    Heart's Delight Here in 1903 William H. Miner developed a 15,000 acre farm employing over 800 workers and utilizing the latest advances in science and technology. Photo/submitted by Alan R Reno

    • farm
    • miner
    • alan r reno
    • chazy ny

    Oakland Fire Department Fire Station Number Twenty

      Victoria Circle Park

        Mergenthaler House

        A beautiful 3 story brick house in the old Bolton Hill district of Baltimore, MarylandThe plaque reads:From 1894 to 1899, the house was the residence of Ottmar Mergenthaler, the German immigrant...

        A beautiful 3 story brick house in the old Bolton Hill district of Baltimore, MarylandThe plaque reads:From 1894 to 1899, the house was the residence of Ottmar Mergenthaler, the German immigrant...

          Theodore Vacquer

          Submitted by @bibhistorique

          Submitted by @bibhistorique

            Coach Wayne Tuffy Williams

              Natlie Coughlin

                In Memory of the Founders of Mission San Rafael Arcangel

                  Marin Indian Warrior

                    Colonel H. Weir Cook

                      Tree of Life

                      TREE OF LIFE IN MEMORY OF ALL OUR FRIENDS WHO HAVE DIED HOMELESS IN MARIN

                      TREE OF LIFE IN MEMORY OF ALL OUR FRIENDS WHO HAVE DIED HOMELESS IN MARIN

                        MARGARET STRATFORD

                        IN MEMORY OF MARGARET STRATFORD

                        IN MEMORY OF MARGARET STRATFORD

                          May This Tree

                          MAY THIS TREE, DEDICATED [IN? TO?] THE MEMORY OF A HAPPY CHILDHOOD SPENT IN SAN RAFAEL, INSPIRE FUTURE [GENERATI?] ONS TO CHERISH [?]T ALL TREES

                          MAY THIS TREE, DEDICATED [IN? TO?] THE MEMORY OF A HAPPY CHILDHOOD SPENT IN SAN RAFAEL, INSPIRE FUTURE [GENERATI?] ONS TO CHERISH [?]T ALL TREES

                            Sidney A. Murray, Jr., Hydroelectric Station 1990

                            In 1990, construction of the largest prefabricated power plant in the world, the Sidney A. Murray, Jr., Hydroelectric Station, was completed 40 miles south of Vidalia. It was the vision of Mayor...

                            In 1990, construction of the largest prefabricated power plant in the world, the Sidney A. Murray, Jr., Hydroelectric Station, was completed 40 miles south of Vidalia. It was the vision of...

                            • louisiana
                            • hydroelectric
                            • power
                            • electricity

                            We Lived & Died Here

                            "Let's teach (our children) that even in a life Such as this, our hearts do not despair, that, although wwe left behind many material things, we did not leave our courage, our fortitude, and our...

                            "Let's teach (our children) that even in a life Such as this, our hearts do not despair, that, although wwe left behind many material things, we did not leave our courage, our fortitude, and...

                            • arkansas. wo...
                            • japanese-american
                            • concentration camps

                            Arkansas State Flag History

                            In 1912, Secretary of State Earle Hodges (1911-1917) and the Pine Bluff chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution sponsored a competition to produce a design for Arkansas’s first state...

                            In 1912, Secretary of State Earle Hodges (1911-1917) and the Pine Bluff chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution sponsored a competition to produce a design for Arkansas’s first state...

                            • arkansas
                            • flag
                            • dar

                            Matt Biondi Olympiad XXIV Town of Moraga

                              Arthur Amos

                                Marjorie Amos