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  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 003

    Caption: "Panama-Pacific International Exposition, General View." The Panama Pacific International Exposition was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, as well as inventive technologies and new industries from around the world. It was also a chance for San Francisco to show the world how the great city had rebuilt and thrived after the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 052

    Caption: "Yellowstone - Grand Canyon," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The Yellowstone River can be glimpsed at the bottom of the Canyon near the center of the photograph. The Canyon is approximately 24 miles long, and between 800 and 1,200 feet deep.

    Date: 1923

  • eichler_f3274_453_7

    Design and drawing of California State Building for Nevada Highways Exposition in Reno, Nevada, by Alfred Eichler, c. 1926; from packet of designs and plans by Eichler for the Transcontinental Highways Exposition of 1927. Built. Initial appropriation of $100,000 was reduced to $50,000, so only one half of the plan was built. The tower was eliminated.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 102

    Caption: "Jackson Park - Chicago," c. 1923. The Grand Basin at Jackson Park. This 500-acre park was originally designed for use as the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (also called the Chicago World's Fair), held in 1893. The Grand Basin was a large reflecting pool at the center of the Exposition, around which the main buildings were constructed.

    Date: 1923

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2909

    Red Slat

    Date: 1897

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1821

    Band Box

    Date: 1890

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0612

    San Francisco Rubber Paint

    Date: 1880

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 141

    Caption: "Hudson River," c. 1925. A train crosses high above the Hudson River over the Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge. Buildings of the C.N. Arnold Co., a lumber company, sit on the bank of the river in the foreground. The Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge first began operation in 1889. The tracks were destroyed by a fire in 1974, but the bridge was subsequently rebuilt, opening as the Walkway Over the Hudson (a pedestrian bridge) in 2003.

    Date: 1925

  • Old Series Trademark No. 3403

    Syrup of Figs, Fig Syrup

    Date: 1899

  • Correspondence on Transportation Expenses from a Hospital

    Correspondence from Charles F. Miller to Charles M. Wollenberg regarding transportation expenses for evacuees needing hospital care

    Date: June 14, 1945