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  • eichler_f3274_225

    Pencil drawing of Livestock Building, State Fair, Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, by Alfred Eichler, c. 1930. Design by H. S. Hazen, 1930 - Built. Project for Department of Finance - Fairs and Expositions.

    Date: 1930

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 181

    No caption, c. 1915-1920. Grace McCarthy standing in a campground next to automobile rigged with a mattress and curtains for privacy while sleeping. See also 96-07-08-alb04-175, 179, 180, and 182.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 269

    Caption: "San Pedro Harbor," c. 1910. View of San Pedro Bay, with harbor facilities such as wharves and cranes in the background. San Pedro Bay was declared the official port for Los Angeles in 1897.

    Date: 1910

  • eichler_f3274_185

    Drawing of Industrial Education Unit, Mesa Campus, Santa Barbara State College. Drawing by Harold Nicholaus. Design by Alfred Eichler. Built like this, with modifications. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1940

  • 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_244

    Colored ink brush drawing of entrance buildings and tower, Stockton Boulevard entry, State Fair, Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Not built. Project for Department of Finance - Fairs and Expositions.

    Date: 1932

  • eichler_f3274_243

    Drawing of Assembly Building, Governor's Hall, State Fair, Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built. The building was called Merriam Hall when Frank Merriam was governor (1934-1939). Project for Department of Finance - Fairs and Expositions.

    Date: 1937