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Caption: "Call Building," c. 1906. The remains of the Call building after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Completed in 1898 and designed by civic leader Claus Spreckels, the Call building on the corner of 3rd and Market streets was one of the first skyscrapers in San Francisco, built to house the San Francisco Call newspaper offices. While the structure withstood the 1906 earthquake, the interior caught fire and sustained considerable damage. After major renovations, the building is today known as The Central Tower.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Bamboo Grows 12 to 16 Inches Per Day and 50 or 60 Feet High in 6 or 7 Weeks. Bamboo Propagating Farm, Burrows, Georgia. July 13, 1934." Grace McCarthy stands next to an automobile on the side of a road under trees. The other side of the road is flanked by rows of bamboo plants. This may be part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Savannah Plant Introduction Station, established in approximately 1919 in the Burroughs Station area southwest of Savannah. The station remained open until 1979, when it was closed by USDA budgetary downsizing. The property was subsequently deeded to the University of Georgia, in 1983.

Date: 7/13/1934

Caption: "State Capitol, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Sept. 29, 1934". Wyoming's State Capitol Building in Cheyenne was built between 1886 and 1890. Designed by the architectural firm David W. Gibbs & Company, the building features Renaissance Revival styling and elements.

Date: 9/29/1934

Caption: "Negro Hut Near Orlando -- Florida -- June 25 1934." An unidentified man and woman stand on the front porch of a small home with wood siding and a corrugated metal roof.

Date: 6/25/1934

Caption: "S.P. & S. Tunnel on the Columbia River.," c. 1908-1910. Shows a tunnel through a hillside along the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway line near the Columbia River and John Day River.

Date: 1908

No caption. Two unidentified men laughing as they pose in grass skirts and long-haired wigs while holding a mandolin and ukulele, in front of the John Shields residence in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.

Date: 1934

Caption: "Ocean Beach, S.F.," c. 1910. Scene at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, with eating establishment Murray's in the background. The photograph features both motor car and horse-and-buggy transportation methods.

Date: 1910

Caption: "Scene in Washington," c. 1909. River scene, with lush vegetation on the banks, and a small shed and barn on the right side of the photograph. A trestle bridge crosses the river in the distance.

Date: 1909

Caption: "Russian River Healdsburg July 1914." Grace McCarthy (far left) and four unidentified people (family and/or friends) being pulled in a rowboat by William McCarthy, on the Russian River near Healdsburg.

Date: 1914-07

No Caption. Group photograph of twelve unidentified individuals, and a small dog, likely friends and family of the McCarthys, posing at the base of a large oak tree at an unidentified location, c. 1908.

Date: 1908