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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 101

    Caption: "Alligator Farm -- Miami -- Florida. July 1, 1934." View of a holding pen at an alligator farm, with over a dozen alligators sunbathing.

    Date: 7/1/1934

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 000e

    No Caption: A Yosemite National Park decal, 1937, octagon-shaped, blue and white, with an image of a mountain lion with Half Dome in the background.

    Date: 1937

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 080

    Caption: "City Park -- Port Townsend," c. 1906. Park scene, possibly in autumn or winter, with a stream cascading down into a small pond or lake.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 081

    No caption, c. 1912-1915. Unidentified woman standing at the gate to a white picket fence in front of a residence.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 321

    Caption: "Jimmy Seekoya," c. 1935. This is possibly a postcard that shows a comical creature made with parts of pine cones, acorns, feathers, and nuts.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 282

    Caption: "Sept. 20, 1934, The Big Studebaker Theatre. Capacity 80 People. Chicago Fair." This giant replica of a 1934 Studebaker Land Cruiser at the Century of Progress Exposition, made of plaster over a wood frame, sat above a small theater capable of sitting eighty people. The Exposition, a world fair attended by thirty-nine million people, celebrated Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. Originally planned to only run from May to November in 1933, it was such a success that its organizers decided to keep it running for a second season from May through October the following year. The central theme of the Exposition was technological innovation, with a motto of "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms."

    Date: 9/20/1934

  • "Non-Evacuated Japanese in County Institutions"

    List of the number of Japanese in institutions; organized alphabetically by county

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 438

    No Caption: An unidentified woman wearing a marching band costume.

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 397b

    No Caption: A four-cent Mexican postage stamp.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 272

    Caption: "Indian Wigwam," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy poses at the entrance to what William McCarthy labeled a "wigwam," a dwelling of the Ahwahnechee people. The Ahwahnechee (a Native American tribe who traditionally occupied the Yosemite Valley) called the dwellings o-chum. Pine branches were arranged in a tee-pee-like shape and then covered with layered slabs of cedar bark.

    Date: 1917