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  • 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

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 267b

    No caption. Commemorative U.S. postage stamp issued in 1933 for Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition, celebrating the one-hundred year anniversary of Chicago's incorporation. This stamp features Fort Dearborn, a fort built in 1803 in what is now Chicago proper. While the original fort was destroyed during the War of 1812, and the second fort which replaced it was destroyed by fires in 1857 and 1871, a replica was constructed for the Exposition.

    Date: 1933

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 033b

    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

  • eichler_f3274_209

    Preliminary design and drawing of state office building on N Street, Sacramento, by Alfred Eichler. Built to later design. Project for Department of Finance - Buildings and Grounds - Office Buildings.

    Date: 1937

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 135

    Caption: "France" French Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The French Pavilion, an homage to the Palais de Legion d'Honneur in Paris, provided the inspiration for the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 000

    Caption: "Tours to the East." Two National Park decals for Yellowstone Park (with handwritten date of Aug. 14, 23, featuring a bear) and Yosemite National Park in 1920 (with handwritten date of July 4, featuring a mountain lion).

    Date: 1920

  • eichler_f3274_129

    Caption: "State Dept. of Public Works Div. of Architecture - Gymnasium - San Diego State Teachers College." Drawing of Women's Gymnasium by Alfred Eichler. Design by H. S. Hazen, 1932. Built. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1932