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  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 010

    Caption: "Steamer EMPRESS OF INDIA at Vancouver dock, B.C.," c. 1908-1912. View of the Empress of India, built by England's Naval Construction & Armaments Co. in 1890 for the Canadian Pacific Steamships company. The Empress of India could accommodate up to 700 passengers, and was also used to carry mail between Hong Kong and Great Britain. She was sold in 1914 and refitted as a hospital ship for Indian soldiers. She was sold a final time in 1923, for scrap in Bombay.

    Date: 1908

  • eichler_f3274_088_021

    Caption: "Kindergarten. Transverse Section looking North." Scheme No. 7., color drawing of California School for the Deaf at Berkeley. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler, 1944; built in 1946. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1944

  • Placer Times and Transcript: Census of 1852, State of California

    Image of a page from the newspaper Placer Times reporting the Census of 1852 returns.

    Date: 1853

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 064

    Caption: "Mothers War Memorial, Gulfport, Mississippi, June 19, 34." A columned memorial is visible at the left side of this photograph of Gulfport, Mississippi. Two multi-story buildings stand at the right.

    Date: 6/19/1934

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 029

    Caption: "Military Parade -- S.F.," c. 1916. Military parade down Market Street in San Francisco. This is possibly a photograph of the Preparedness Day Parade held on July 22, 1916, in anticipation of U.S. entry into World War I.

    Date: 1916

  • eichler_f3274_070

    Caption: "California School for Deaf, Berkeley. Alfred Eichler Early Study." Project for Department of Education.

    Date: undated

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 334b

    Image withheld due to copyright considerations. For more information, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk at ArchivesWeb@sos.ca.gov or (916) 653-2246. This postcard, sent to William and Grace McCarthy in May 1937, commemorates the coronation of George VI, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India. The back of the postcard features an image of the Hotel de Ville in Paris.

    Date: 5/12/1937

  • eichler_f3274_084

    Drawing of main stairway, girls' dormitory, California School for the Deaf at Berkeley. Design and color drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built like this, 1932. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1931

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 172

    Caption: "Sisters Hospital -- Walla Walla.," ca. 1920. Five-story brick and stone building. This building is the second hospital built on the site. The first, built in the 1880s by the Sisters of Providence, burned in a 1915 fire. This second building (seen here), constructed in 1916, served as the main hospital building until a new facility was constructed in 1976. The resulting new complex of buildings is now called the Providence St. Mary Medical Center.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 257

    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