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  • Old Series Trademark No. 0845

    Watch

    Date: 1882

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 251

    Caption: "Santa Fe Depot. San Diego, Cal, July 18, 1915," shows the Santa Fe Depot (Arthur Brown Jr, architect), in the Mission Revival architectural style. The train station opened in March 1915 to accommodate the crowds expected to visit the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego that year. The depot is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 001

    Caption: "Battery Spencer. Highest 12" Battery in the World." With construction begun in 1893, Battery Spencer, located at Fort Baker in Marin County on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge, was one of the main protection points for the San Francisco harbor from 1897 until it was deactivated in 1942. It was named for Major General Joseph Spencer of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 320a

    No caption. Obverse of a souvenir ticket for the "Official Pedestrian Day" on May 27, 1937, held as part of the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta celebrating the opening of the now-iconic bridge. The celebrations occupied an entire week, kicked off by Pedestrian Day, when more 200,000 people were allowed to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge on foot or on roller skates, the day before the bridge opened for vehicular traffic.

    Date: 5/27/1937

  • Old Series Trademark No. 3531

    Widow Finke Brut, A.F.W. monogram

    Date: 1899

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1798

    Argonaut and Pioneer

    Date: 1890

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 023

    Caption: "State Capitol, Phoenix Arizona, May 24, 34." View of the façade of the Arizona State Capitol Building in Phoenix. Designed by James Riely Gordon, the building opened for use in 1901.

    Date: 5/24/1934

  • eichler_f3274_388

    Caption: "Office District III Division of Highways Marysville." Design by H. S. Hazen, drawing by Alfred Eichler, c. 1935. Built 1936. Project for Department of Public Works - Highways - District III - Marysville.

    Date: 1935

  • eichler_f3274_014

    Caption: "Department of Agriculture - Plant Quarantine Inspection Station - Ft. Yuma. State Department of Public Works, Division of Architecture." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1930. This was one of the first border stations and was situated in desert country; its purpose was to provide a stopping place for inspection of motor traffic coming into California in order to enforce quarantine against insect infestation of California agricultural products. Project for Department of Agriculture.

    Date: 1930

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 245

    Caption: "Mohawk Trail, Hoosac Mountains, Massachusetts. Greenfield Mass to Albany New York, Sept 7, 1934." Hairpin turn on the Mohawk Trail, a scenic highway in Massachusetts. The Trail, originally a trade route for Native American tribes, was adopted as the route for the first scenic road constructed in the state. A gravel road was built along the route between 1912 and 1914, and later expanded as automobile traffic increased nation-wide. It is now part of Massachusetts Route 2.

    Date: 9/7/1934