Search All Items

Note: Check the about page for more information on the data sources used in this search

Search Results 1731 to 1740 of 5015

  • eichler_f3274_441_10

    Caption: "East Elevation." Final drawing of east elevation, Mess Hall, Veterans Home, Yountville; design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Veterans Affairs.

    Date: 1942

  • eichler_f3274_123_001

    Caption: "Col - Cap & Base - Fresno State College." Detail drawing of column, Student Activities Building. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1940

  • eichler_f3274_163

    Drawing of Study Court, Mesa Campus, Santa Barbara State College. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Not built. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1932

  • eichler_f3274_415_1

    Caption: "Arroyo Seco Parkway, Hough Street Bridge. VII - LA - 205 - So. Pasa." Overpass study by Alfred Eichler. Negative. Project for Department of Public Works - Highways - Bridge Department.

    Date: undated

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 295

    Caption: "Church Butte [sic], near Green River, Wyoming. Oct. 2, 1934." The Church Buttes in Wyoming consist of sandstone eroded by wind and weather into a butte approximately 1,000 feet in diameter and rising up to 100 feet above the surrounding valley floor. Located along the Overland Route used by emigrants to the West Coast, the formation gained additional notoriety for being a camp site for Brigham Young and the first Mormon party to head west, as well as a relay site for the Pony Express.

    Date: 10/2/1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 248

    Caption: "Delaware and Hudson R.R. Office Building, Albany, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1934." View of the enormous Gothic building constructed by and for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company between 1914-1918. It also housed the offices of the Albany Evening Journal. A small city park sits in front of the building's central tower, surrounded on all sides by a looped street originally intended for trolley cars. The building was gradually abandoned by the businesses within, until purchased in 1973 by the State University of New York (SUNY). SUNY renovated the building for use as its administrative offices, a purpose which it still serves today.

    Date: 9/7/1934

  • eichler_f3274_453_6

    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: 1921

  • President Lyndon B. Johnson handing a signing pen to Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the signing ceremony for the Voting Rights Act

    This item has no description.

    Date: 1965

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 246

    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb05-185, with caption: "Council Crest -- Portland," Buildings and benches in a park setting, with a tall observation tower, labeled the "Observatory," at the right side of the photograph. Council Crest Park in Portland, Oregon was the site of an amusement park between 1907 and 1929. The buildings in this photograph were part of that park. The Observatory, built in 1907, was demolished in 1941 to make room for a water tower. The area is still in use as a municipal park.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 144

    Caption: "John D. Rockefeller Mansion, Ormond [sic], Florida. July 10, 1934." A large mansion can be glimpsed through surrounding trees and other vegetation in this photograph. The mansion is known as the Casements, for the numerous casement windows incorporated into its structure. Built in 1914 in Ormond Beach, John D. Rockefeller purchased the home in 1918 for use as a winter residence. After Rockefeller died in 1937, the property was sold several times, until the City of Ormond Beach bought it in 1973. The city renovated it for use as a cultural and community center, a purpose which it still serves.

    Date: 7/10/1934