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  • eichler_f3274_320_1

    Caption: "Front Elevation (East). Female Acute Dist. Stockton." Design and drawing of Acute Disturbed Ward, Stockton State Hospital, by Alfred Eichler. Built. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals.

    Date: 1937

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 268

    Caption: "U.S. 10-inch Gun, Loading Position." A close-up view of a large gun in a loading position at what appears to be a battery for coastal defense.

    Date: Undated

  • eichler_f3274_046

    Caption: "Scheme No. 1. Addition to Hospital Bldg. San Quentin." Preliminary design of addition of 4th floor to hospital building, San Quentin State Prison, c. 1934. Project for Department of Corrections.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 033a

    One side of a flier handed out by the San Antonio Reptile Garden in the mid-1930s entitled "Reptile Facts." The Reptile Garden opened in the 1930s as a fundraising facility for the Witte Museum. The Garden featured turtle races, snake handling demonstrations, fried rattlesnake meat, and rattlesnake dinner fund raisers. It also became a research center for the use of antivenom. The Garden closed in the early 1940s, its live snakes donated to the San Antonio Zoo.

    Date: 1934

  • 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 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

  • 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