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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 060

    Caption: "The Chutes, S.F," c. 1905. View of the Fulton Street Chutes, a 350-foot water slide. Boats or toboggans careened down the slide into a man-made lake at the bottom. Such "chutes" were very popular throughout the U.S. and Europe at the turn of the century. The Fulton Street Chutes operated from 1902-1907 as part of an amusement park area that also featured the "Circle Swing Flying Machine" (also visible in the photograph), a theater, bar, merry-go-round, and a zoo.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 205

    Caption: "Government Building. Portland Exposition." Shows the Government Building, Guild's Lake, and the Bridge of Nations, a long pedestrian bridge over the lake. Some of the more than 100,000 light bulbs used to outline the exposition's buildings can be seen along the arches and decorative molding of the bridge. The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition was held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries. See also 96-07-08-alb08-158.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 000e

    No Caption: A Yosemite National Park decal, 1937, octagon-shaped, blue and white, with an image of a mountain lion with Half Dome in the background.

    Date: 1937

  • eichler_f3274_197_046

    Caption: "Santa Barbara State College Classroom Building - Horticultural Unit." Drawing by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1939

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 036

    Caption: "Mary." Elderly woman with shawl and metal pail standing in front of fence.

    Date: 1927

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 027

    Caption: "Main Street, Port Townsend.," c. 1908-1912. Street scene in Washington's Port Townsend, on the tip of the Olympic Peninsula on the shores of Puget Sound.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 109

    Caption: "Market St. S.F." See also 96-07-08-alb06-197 with caption: "Building up on Market Street, c. 1907. A view of repairs being made to Market Street, after the damage of the 1906 earthquake.

    Date: 1907

  • eichler_f3274_411

    Design and drawing of Palisades Beach Road Tunnel by Alfred Eichler. Built. Project for Department of Public Works - Highways - Bridge Department.

    Date: 1939

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 286

    Caption: "Entrance - Mariposa Grove- Yosemite," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy stands with an automobile near the entrance to Maripose Grove in Yosemite National Park. The Mariposa Grove, near Wawona, is the largest grove of Giant Sequoia trees in Yellowstone National Park. It also includes two of the thirty largest Giant Sequoias in the world.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 012

    No Caption: A view of the Tower of Jewels and street lamps at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915