Elephants from Cole Brothers Circus crossing Olive Street with police escort in Los Angeles, California, 1953.
Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library

Elephants from Cole Brothers Circus crossing Olive Street with police escort in Los Angeles, California, 1953.

Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library

Michael A. Wesner, Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McCoy, Los Angeles, California, 1890s.

Michael A. Wesner, Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McCoy, Los Angeles, California, 1890s.

Maude Adams and Flora Walsh in “The Wandering Boys” presented at Stanford Theatre, San Francisco, California,  25 July 1880.
Source: New York Public Library

Maude Adams and Flora Walsh in “The Wandering Boys” presented at Stanford Theatre, San Francisco, California, 25 July 1880.

Source: New York Public Library

Robert Monroe, Vitagraph Studios, Hollywood, California, ca. 1920s.

Robert Monroe, Vitagraph Studios, Hollywood, California, ca. 1920s.

Carlton E. Watkins, City Front from Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 1860-1862.
Source: Getty Museum

Carlton E. Watkins, City Front from Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 1860-1862.

Source: Getty Museum

Phoebe Apperson Hearst, (1842-1919), first woman Regent of the University of California, wife of George Hearst and mother of William Randolph Hearst, ca. 1919.
Source: University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Phoebe Apperson Hearst, (1842-1919), first woman Regent of the University of California, wife of George Hearst and mother of William Randolph Hearst, ca. 1919.

Source: University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library

D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin (seated) and Douglas Fairbanks at the signing of the contract establishing United Artists motion picture studio in 1919. Lawyers Albert Banzhaf (left) and Dennis F. O’Brien (right) stand in the background.
Source: Library of Congress

D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin (seated) and Douglas Fairbanks at the signing of the contract establishing United Artists motion picture studio in 1919. Lawyers Albert Banzhaf (left) and Dennis F. O’Brien (right) stand in the background.

Source: Library of Congress

James David Givens, The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, 1919.
Source: Library of Congress

James David Givens, The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, 1919.

Source: Library of Congress

The USS San Francisco steams under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, December 1942.
Source: Naval Historical Center

The USS San Francisco steams under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, December 1942.

Source: Naval Historical Center