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No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people posing for a photograph in a park or landscaped yard. William McCarthy is seated at the bottom right.
Date: 1920
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No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-108, with caption: "Crockett Mandolin Club," c. 1906. William McCarthy is seen strumming the mandolin, second from left.
Date: 1906
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No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy is feeding a bear standing upright, likely in Yosemite National Park. This photograph was loose in the box with Album 11.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco," built for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. William McCarthy is seen smiling for the camera, 1915.
Date: 1915
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The image is of a lithograph that depicts the various routes to California from Eastern United States via Panama and Cape Horn.
Date: 1849
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Correspondence from L. T. McCollister to Director of State Department of Social Welfare regarding individuals released from incarceration camps
Date: January 17, 1946
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Caption: "Bull Fight, Tiajuana [sic], Mexico." Image is dominated by bull in foreground, with several banderillas (short, barbed sticks) in place on his shoulders. Spectators watch from a ring of seats. A paper image of an unidentified matador is also placed in the album at this location.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Old Spanish Fort -- Petaluma," c. 1920. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo began construction on the Petaluma Adobe in 1836, as a ranch house and defensive structure. It is now the centerpiece of Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park, having been reconstructed after deterioration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It is the largest existing, privately-built adobe in the state.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "State capitol or Palacio de Cortes, Cuernavaca, Mexico." Built in 1526 as a residence for Spanish conqueror, Hernan Cortes, the Palacio de Cortes is the oldest conserved colonial era civil structure in the continental Americas. It is now El Museo Cuauhnahuac, a regional museum, which features murals by Mexican artist, Diego Rivera.
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Tacoma Bridge.," c. 1913. Double leaf, Rall-type bascule bridge spanning the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. This is one of the rare instances where William McCarthy's labeling of the photographs in the albums is incorrect. The Broadway Bridge, built in 1913, was Portland's first bascule bridge, or drawbridge. It retains the distinction of being the longest bascule bridge span in the world.
Date: 1913
