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  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 001

    Caption: "Battery Spencer. Highest 12" Battery in the World." With construction begun in 1893, Battery Spencer, located at Fort Baker in Marin County on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge, was one of the main protection points for the San Francisco harbor from 1897 until it was deactivated in 1942. It was named for Major General Joseph Spencer of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 114

    Caption: "Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho. 500,000 acres - established in 1867 - Shoshone and Bannock Tribes," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 163

    Caption: "Golden Gate Park -- Portals of the Past," c. 1910. A monument in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, on the shores of Lloyd Lake, consisting of a white marble archway and columns. The archway was originally part of the Nob Hill mansion belonging to railroad tycoon Alban Towne. The mansion was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, but the entryway still stood. It was moved to the shore of Lloyd Lake in 1909, as a memorial to the pre-1906 city.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 267

    No Caption: undated. Photograph shows the base of what appears to be a 12" mortar, and part of its carriage.

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 427

    Caption: "Xochimilco - Floating Gardens - the Mexican Venice."

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 119

    Caption: "Western Arch," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-097.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 032

    Caption: "Palace of Fine Arts," with several visitors viewing the statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 206

    Caption: "Torrey Pines, San Diego.," c. 1905. William McCarthy stands with a group of unidentified friends or family in this photograph, framed within the branches of what appears to be a Torrey pine tree. William is far to the left, sporting a moustache.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 250

    No Caption: A view of the Multnomah Falls on the Oregon side of the Columbia River, c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 320

    Caption: "Golden Gate Bridge, Construction, July 1, 1936." Image of one terminus of the Golden Gate Bridge, showing the anchoring site of the suspension wires. Completed in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge spans the mouth of San Francisco Bay (called the Golden Gate), connecting San Francisco with Marin County to the north. It is one of the most recognizable bridges in the world, and was named in 1994 as one of the Modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

    Date: 7/1/1936