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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 137

    Caption: "Embassy Club Royal Palm Garden -- Palm Beach, Fla. Designed by Adison [sic] Mizner of Benicia Calif. July 8, 1934." Grace McCarthy sitting on an ornamental fence in a garden, surrounded by palm trees. The Embassy Club was a popular Palm Beach club in the mid-twentieth century.

    Date: 7/8/1934

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 187

    Caption: "Examiner Cartoon." Photograph of a cartoon that appeared in the San Francisco Examiner in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire. The cartoon shows a defiant grizzly bear representing San Francisco, pierced by three arrows labeled "Earthquake," "Fire," and "Famine." The word "UNDAUNTED!" appears above the bear.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 294

    Caption: "Casino-Santa Cruz," c. 1910. A view of the beachside casino resort with many beachgoers enjoying the sand and water. The casino, designed by William Weeks, was constructed in 1907, replacing a previous casino building that burned down in 1906. See also 96-07-08-alb05-075.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 151

    Caption: "Pine Trees Yielding Turpentine, Rosin [sic], Etc. Florida, July 13, 1934." A group of pine trees with bark removed in a "V"-shaped, or "catface" pattern to encourage production of resin, from which turpentine is made. Small buckets hang at the end of each "V" to catch the resin. This turpentine farm may actually be in Georgia, rather than Florida.

    Date: 7/13/1934

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 068

    Caption: "'THE DAUNTLESS' in PUGET SOUND.," c. 1908-1912. View of the Dauntless, a steamship built in 1899. This ship spent most of its career traveling Puget Sound between Port Townsend and Irondale. She was destroyed in a storm in 1923.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 297

    Caption: "Rocky Mountains Near Evanston, Wyoming. Near Wyoming and Utah State Line. Oct. 2, 1934." A narrow road twists into the distance, flanked on one side by bottomland along a river or stream, and on the other by dramatic, steep, rocky bluffs.

    Date: 10/2/1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 138

    Caption: "Embassy Club Royal Palm Garden -- Palm Beach, Fla. Designed by Adison [sic] Mizner of Benicia Calif. July 8, 1934." William McCarthy leaning on an ornamental fence in a garden, surrounded by palm trees and manicured hedges. The Embassy Club was a popular Palm Beach club in the mid-twentieth century.

    Date: 7/8/1934

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 005

    Caption: "Pasa [sic] Robles Hotel, May 22, 1935." View of the Hotel el Paso de Robles (pass of the oaks). This resort hotel opened in 1891, and featured a variety of amenities including a mineral hot springs "plunge" bath. The hotel burned down in 1940, and was replaced by the building that is still in operation today as the Paso Robles Inn.

    Date: 1935

  • eichler_f3274_251

    Watercolor perspective of New Governor's Mansion. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Not built. The design, made during the tenure of Governor James Rolph, is an adaptation of early California mission style. The painting is made with water color mixed with a small amount of Chinese white; the sky is blown on with a brush. Project for Office of the Governor.

    Date: 1931

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 066

    caption: "In Victoria, B. C.," c. 1906. William McCarthy (standing in the center) and four unidentified men with horse-and-buggies in the Gorge. The Gorge is a narrow tidal inlet in Victoria running from Selkirk Trestle to the Craigflower Bridge. The inlet became a popular recreation destination for the area's residents as Victoria grew.

    Date: 1906