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  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 038

    Caption: "Liberty Cap Rock - Mammoth Hot Springs," c. 1923. Liberty Cap Rock, a 40-foot tall dormant hot spring cone, is located in the Mammoth Hot Springs area of Yellowstone National Park.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 057

    Caption: "Santa Rosa," c. 1914. Part of a parade in Santa Rosa. The tall wagon in this photograph is pulled by a six-horse team, decked out in feathered plumes for the occasion.

    Date: 1914

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 303

    Caption: "Lilouette [sic] Falls," c. 1917. Illilouette Falls is a 370-foot waterfall in Yosemite located on the Illilouette Creek, a small tributary of the Merced River. The photograph was taken from a point above the summit of the falls.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 324a

    No caption. Commemorative stamp celebrating the upcoming Golden Gate International Exposition, c. 1938. The Exposition, which ran from February through October in 1939 and May to September in 1940, celebrated the completion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (1936) and the Golden Gate Bridge (1937). More than ten million people attended in 1939, while an additional five million visited in 1940. The Exposition was held on an artificial island created by dredging more than 19 million cubic yards of material from the bottom of the bay. The federal government completed this dredging and fill, intending for the site, called Treasure Island, to become a municipal airport after the exposition. However, the advent of World War II resulted in the U.S. Navy taking over the site, holding it until for military purposes until 1997.

    Date: 1938

  • Discussion on Property

    Discussion from Helen Van Gulpen Harris to Mr. Harrison regarding rights of aliens to hold property

    Date: June 26, 1942

  • eichler_f3274_230

    Ink drawing of Poultry Building, State Fair, Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built. This is now the Art Building, 1963. Project for Department of Finance - Fairs and Expositions.

    Date: 1931

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 229

    Caption: "California Building Tower - July 18, 15," (Bertrum Goodhue, architect), at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego, 1915. The exposition's Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture designed by Bertrum Goodhue is credited with giving the style national exposure.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 029

    Caption: "Conservatory Golden Gate Park," c. 1910. Built in 1879, the Conservatory is the oldest building in Golden Gate Park, and the oldest municipal wooden conservatory in the country.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 050

    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-078 with caption: "Harrold and Buff," c. 1906. A young child with a dog is seen standing near a fence at the McCarthy home in Watsonville.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 215

    No Caption: c. 1915. Shows a view of Broadway in Los Angeles. On the right side of the street is Woodley Theatre, a vaudeville theater that opened in 1913.

    Date: 1915