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Caption: "Palace of Fine Arts," with William McCarthy smiling for the camera at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb03-104.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Addition to State Capitol - Geo. B. McDougall State Architect." Sketch design and pencil rendering by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of General Services.
Date: 1936
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Drawing of Science Building Addition, Downtown Campus, San Francisco State College. Design and color drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built. Project for Department of Education.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Hangar Administration & Shops Unit, Calif. National Guard - Los Angeles." Rendering in color by Alfred Eichler. Project for California Military Department.
Date: 1941
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Drawing of Home Making Cottage, Mesa Campus, Santa Barbara State College. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built. Project for Department of Education.
Date: 1932
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Design and drawing of California National Guard Armory, Pomona, by Alfred Eichler. Not built like this. Project for California Military Department.
Date: 1930
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Design and drawing of California State Building for Nevada Highways Exposition in Reno, Nevada, by Alfred Eichler, c. 1926; from packet of designs and plans by Eichler for the Transcontinental Highways Exposition of 1927. Built. Initial appropriation of $100,000 was reduced to $50,000, so only one half of the plan was built. The tower was eliminated.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Aimee McPherson's Angeles Temple- Los Angeles," c. 1935. Aimee Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee was a Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for her theatrical sermons and claims of healing the sick, and for founding the Foursquare Church.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "OSTRICH FARM, Pasadena, California.," c. 1905. View of several ostriches in a corral at the Caswston Ostrich Farm in Pasadena. Opened by Edward Cawston in 1886, this was the first ostrich farm in the U.S. It became a popular tourist stop along the Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway in the early twentieth century, where visitors could ride an ostrich, or be pulled by one in a light card. They could also buy merchandise made out of ostrich feathers, such as hats and boas. The farm closed in the mid-1930s.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Lake Tahoe," c. 1915-1920. William and Grace McCarthy posing for a photograph with an unidentified young woman, on a steep hillside in front of pine trees.
Date: 1920
