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  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 054

    Caption: "Tuolumne Meadows." Meadow area along the Tuolumne River in the eastern portion of Yosemite National Park, with mountains in the background. Tuolumne Meadows is recognized as one of the largest alpine meadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

    Date: 1927

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 098

    Caption: "Garfield Park Conservatory - Chicago," c. 1925. Construction began on the Garfield Park Conservatory in 1906. Opened to the public in 1908, the Conservatory is one of the largest greenhouse conservatories in the United States.

    Date: 1925

  • eichler_f3274_191

    Alternate sketch of Main Entrance, Administration Building, Riviera Campus, Santa Barbara State College, by Alfred Eichler. Built, but not according to this design. Project for Department of Education. The image, eichler_f3274_191, is inset on the image, eichler_f3274_190.

    Date: 1926

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 303

    No Caption: Grace McCarthy is seen standing near the Camp Curry sign at Yosemite National Park, c. 1935. Camp Curry was established in 1899 and renamed Half Dome Village in 2016.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 154

    Caption: "Iowa Exhibit," features a horn of plenty with a mountain of corn cobs, with "Corn is King - in Iowa," spelled out in corn, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-132.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 393

    Caption: "In our flower decked tourist court, 46 Neva St. Mexico City." Grace McCarthy is seen sitting on an automobile bumper in the background of this photograph, while three Mexican men wearing sombreros and serapes pose in the foreground.

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 141

    Caption: "Columbia River Jetty, Or.," c. 1910. View of a jetty built at the mouth of the Columbia River, carrying a railroad trestle. A train hauling cars loaded with large rocks is steaming away from the photographer. This is likely the so-called South Jetty, extending more than six miles into the ocean from Point Adams on the Oregon side of the river mouth. The jetty system at the mouth of the Columbia River was constructed between 1885 and 1917. Designed to funnel water from the Columbia River in a more concentrated fashion into the Pacific Ocean, the jetty system helped create a deeper, more stable shipping channel.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 073

    Caption: "Temple Drive to Cave of the Winds," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of a road at the bottom of a canyon, on a drive to Cave of the Winds. Two brothers discovered the entrance to the large cave system in 1880, in Williams Canyon just outside of Manitou Springs. Further exploration resulted in opening more caverns within the system, and the site became a tourist attraction, with guided tours having been on offer since 1881.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 034

    Caption: "Carlsbad Caverns -- Inside Looking Out, May, 30, 34." View looking out of the mouth of Carlsbad Cavern, a series of natural underground chambers including the "Big Room," the fifth-largest such chamber in North America with a length of 1,000 feet, a width of 625 feet, and a maximum height of 255 feet. The site was named Carlsbad Cave National Monument in 1923, and declared Carlsbad Caverns National Park in 1930.

    Date: 5/30/1934

  • Memorandum on Alien Land Law

    Summary of the history of the Alien Land Laws including deciding court cases; Sections: History and Background, Provisions of Existing Law; Persons Affected by this Law, Property Affected by the Law

    Date: Undated