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Richmond - San Rafael Bridge

    Jamaicaway Bridge

    Commonwealth of Massachusetts National Industrial Recovery Act of 1934 Project No. NRM 235E Franklin Delano Roosevelt President of the United States James Michael Curley Governor Department of...

    Commonwealth of Massachusetts National Industrial Recovery Act of 1934 Project No. NRM 235E Franklin Delano Roosevelt President of the United States James Michael Curley Governor Department of...

    • boston
    • massachusetts
    • jamaicaway
    • bridge
    • route 9

    Fort Pickering

    FORT PICKERINGProtecting Memphis In June 1861, Confederate supporters in Memphis erected earthworks to protect the city here at Fort Pickering, the site of a frontier-era fortified trading post....

    FORT PICKERINGProtecting Memphis In June 1861, Confederate supporters in Memphis erected earthworks to protect the city here at Fort Pickering, the site of a frontier-era fortified trading post....

      The Butterfly Man

      Robert Nelson's performances at PIER 39 in the 1970s and 1980s inspired a generation of street performers in San Francisco and around the world. The Butterfly Man, as he was known, was brash,...

      Robert Nelson's performances at PIER 39 in the 1970s and 1980s inspired a generation of street performers in San Francisco and around the world. The Butterfly Man, as he was known, was brash,...

      • san francisco
      • bay area
      • california
      • bay
      • shoreline
      • pier 39
      • butterfly

      In Memory of Josh Raley

      Follow Your Dreams In Memory Of Josh Raley  If Tears Could Build A Stairway, And Memories A Lane, I'd Walk Right Up To Heaven and Bring You Home Again. Submitted by @Mostly_Filled .

      Follow Your Dreams In Memory Of Josh Raley  If Tears Could Build A Stairway, And Memories A Lane, I'd Walk Right Up To Heaven and Bring You Home Again. Submitted by @Mostly_Filled .

      • vancouver
      • washington
      • raley

      Ancaster Village

      Submitted by @jonaskayla.

      Submitted by @jonaskayla.

      • ancaster
      • ontario
      • 1791
      • willson's mills

      Hellman's Hollow

      HELLMAN'S HOLLOW  BIRTHPLACE OF THE HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL You feel the thirst but none can make you drink The answer's waiting for you here but it's not what you think It won't steal...

      HELLMAN'S HOLLOW  BIRTHPLACE OF THE HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL You feel the thirst but none can make you drink The answer's waiting for you here but it's not what you think It won't steal...

      • san francisco
      • bay area
      • california
      • hardly strictly
      • bluegrass

      The Dashed Line That Surrounds You Marks The Former Location of an Embarcadero Freeway Column

      The Dashed Line That Surrounds You Marks The Former Location of an Embarcadero Freeway Column "The Chief Designer of the Embarcadero Freeway, 79 year old Arthur Elliot predicts "San Francisco will...

      The Dashed Line That Surrounds You Marks The Former Location of an Embarcadero Freeway Column "The Chief Designer of the Embarcadero Freeway, 79 year old Arthur Elliot predicts "San Francisco will...

      • san francisco
      • bay area
      • california
      • bay
      • ferry building
      • embarcadero
      • freeway
      • stew in its ...

      Prabhupada's Palace

      On behalf of Srila Prabhupada, our deepest gratitude to all the devotees for their dedication and generous contributions toward the construction and renovation of Prabhupada's Palace. May Sri...

      On behalf of Srila Prabhupada, our deepest gratitude to all the devotees for their dedication and generous contributions toward the construction and renovation of Prabhupada's Palace. May...

      • west virginia
      • new vrindaban
      • palace
      • prabhupada's palace
      • prabhupada

      Ornate Box Turtle

      ORNATE BOX TURTLE  STATE REPTILE OF KANSAS  [Location unknown, presumably in Kansas]

      ORNATE BOX TURTLE  STATE REPTILE OF KANSAS  [Location unknown, presumably in Kansas]

      • kansas
      • turtle

      Barbary Coast Trail

      BARBARY COAST TRAIL This Plaque Sponsored By Hyatt Hotels - San Francisco

      BARBARY COAST TRAIL This Plaque Sponsored By Hyatt Hotels - San Francisco

      • san francisco
      • bay area
      • california
      • bay
      • shoreline

      Pier 39

      PIER 39 WALKER & MOODY A.I.A.  ARCHITECTS  JOHNSON * GUTHRIE * ASSOCIATES  LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS  1978   OPENED ON OCTOBER 4, 1978 11:30 A.M. THROUGH THE UNTIRING EFFORTS OF JOHN E. "BAGGY"...

      PIER 39 WALKER & MOODY A.I.A.  ARCHITECTS  JOHNSON * GUTHRIE * ASSOCIATES  LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS  1978   OPENED ON OCTOBER 4, 1978 11:30 A.M. THROUGH THE UNTIRING EFFORTS OF JOHN E. "BAGGY"...

      • san francisco
      • bay area
      • california
      • bay
      • shoreline
      • pier 39
      • baggy
      • 11:30 a.m.

      In Honor Of The Greatest Mom

      BARBARY COAST TRAIL This Plaque In Honor Of The Greatest Mom Maggie May Kim Cheung

      BARBARY COAST TRAIL This Plaque In Honor Of The Greatest Mom Maggie May Kim Cheung

      • san francisco
      • bay area
      • california
      • bay
      • shoreline
      • greatest mom

      This Black-Tailed Deer

      • san fr

      Wadsworth Mansion

      This plaque is on the mansion property as you walk from the upper parking lot to the front door. THE WADSWORTH MANSION  Middletown's most palatial "Gilded Age" estate, the Long Hill mansion was...

      This plaque is on the mansion property as you walk from the upper parking lot to the front door. THE WADSWORTH MANSION  Middletown's most palatial "Gilded Age" estate, the Long Hill mansion...

      • middletown
      • ct
      • wadsworth
      • mansion
      • panama
      • panama canal
      • concrete
      • steel-reinfo...

      Birthsite of W.E.B. Du Bois

      "I WAS BORN BY A GOLDEN RIVER AND IN THE SHADOW OF TOW GREAT HILLS, FIVE YEARS AFTER THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION"  BIRTHPLACE OF W.E.B DUBOIS (1868-1963)  PREMIER ARCHITECT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL...

      "I WAS BORN BY A GOLDEN RIVER AND IN THE SHADOW OF TOW GREAT HILLS, FIVE YEARS AFTER THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION"  BIRTHPLACE OF W.E.B DUBOIS (1868-1963)  PREMIER ARCHITECT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL...

      • great barrington
      • massachusetts
      • african american
      • civil rights

      This Coastal Sea Star

        Largest Grant Wood Murals

        Grant Wood's largest murals are located in Iowa State's Parks Library. Wood, best known for his painting American Gothic that depicts a stoic farm couple, was commissioned by Iowa State in the...

        Grant Wood's largest murals are located in Iowa State's Parks Library. Wood, best known for his painting American Gothic that depicts a stoic farm couple, was commissioned by Iowa State in...

          Fairmont Ave Streetscape

            First Land-Grant

            Iowa started an education revolution as the first state to accept the 1862 Morrill Act terms. The act allowed Iowa to sell federal land to finance a new college open to all regardless of wealth,...

            Iowa started an education revolution as the first state to accept the 1862 Morrill Act terms. The act allowed Iowa to sell federal land to finance a new college open to all regardless of...