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Designer: Small group of the People’s Republic of China’s sport activity committee’s swimming posters 1972, May Swimming across with arms Wuzhuang qiudu Call nr.: BG E35/714 (IISH collection) More? See: chineseposters.net via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/oPTFHx
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Steamer Lane with Santa Cruz Beach Pier – Santa Cruz CA via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/tC3Lzt
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Sailboat with Point Lighthouse – Santa Cruz CA via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/uysGHC
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Pictorial R-93 via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/ukYf2j
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A Real Picture Postcard via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/tpwxEc
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Longest Suspension Bridge in the world; 4,200 feet between towers; 220 feet clearance at high tide; height of towers, 740 feet; deck, 90 feet wide. Total cost $35,000,000. Portion of San Francisco Presidio in foreground; Marin County hills and beginning of Redwood Empire in distance. Mailed from San Francisco, California to Richard Wenich of Caldwell,…
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Majestic Sweep of the Golden Gate Bridge at Sunset The Golden Gate, famed portal to San Francisco Bay, a great landlocked sea – a beautiful and extensive harbor, peer to any in the world. Here at the Gate, man has met the age-old challenge of the mighty barrier of treacherous tides that lie between its…
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Spans Golden Gate connecting San Francisco with Marin County and the north. Length of Bridge and approaches about seven miles. Length of Bridge proper, 8,940 feet. Span between towers 4,200 feet – longest in the world. Main towers 746 feet above water – highest in the world. Bridge clearance above water, 220 feet. Width of…
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Showing the Marin approach tunnels to the Golden Gate Bridge. Beyond lies the City of San Francisco. The grand total length, including the two approach roads, or from Waldo Point in Marin County to the Marina Gate of the Presidio in San Francisco, all embraced within the project, is seven miles PHOTO COPYRIGHT 1937 –…
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The Golden Gate Bridge (costing $35,500,000) is the main connecting link between the peninsula of San Francisco and northern California. The two enormous towers from which the bridge is suspended rise to the height of a 65-story building, 746 ft. above the water. The central span clearing the water by 220 ft. is the longest…
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