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  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 292

    Caption: "Echo Park [sic] Los Angeles," c. 1910. William McCarthy standing on a bridge in Los Angeles' Echo Lake Park. The park opened in 1895. The lake was originally created in 1868 to support the operations of a mill. The mill, however, closed seven years later. The site was later selected for conversion to a city park.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 365

    Caption: "Laredo, Texas - Highway entrance to Mexico at International bridge - U.S. Customs office on left. April 12, 1938."

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 072

    Caption: "Chief Manitou - Manitou Soda Springs," c. 1923. William McCarthy, wearing a Native American headdress and attire, stands next to Pedro Cajete. Mr. Cajete, better known to many as Chief Manitou, was a Native American of the Tewa tribe near Santa Fe, New Mexico, who was hired to promote tourism in the Manitou Springs/Colorado Springs area of Colorado. He often sold trinkets and posed for photographs with tourists near the mouth of Manitou Cave, resulting in his moniker Chief Manitou.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 227

    Caption: "Flavel Hotel -- on the Columbia River.," c. 1905-1909. Built at the turn of the century, the Flavel Hotel housed passengers waiting to board steamships of the Great Northern Pacific Steamship Company bound for San Francisco and other ports. The Flavel family constructed the hotel as part of an effort to establish the town of Flavel on Tansy Point along the Columbia River. The town failed to attract sufficient residents, however, and was annexed into Warrenton by 1918.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 104

    Caption: "Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco," built for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. William McCarthy is seen smiling for the camera, 1915.

    Date: 1915

  • eichler_f3274_424

    Preliminary design for Post Exchange, Veterans Home, Yountville; design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Not built like this; see later design. Project for Department of Veterans Affairs.

    Date: 1926

  • eichler_f3274_421

    Design study and rendering by Alfred Eichler for Mess Hall, Veterans Home, Yountville, 1946-1947. Built. Project for Department of Veterans Affairs.

    Date: 1947

  • eichler_f3274_441_6

    Caption: "West Window in Dining Room." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler for Mess Hall, Veterans Home, Yountville. Project for Department of Veterans Affairs.

    Date: 1942

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 083

    Caption: "The California. " c. 1906. This photograph shows the second U.S. Navy ship to bear the Golden State's name. Launched in 1904 and commissioned in 1907, this Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser served in the Pacific fleet. Her name was changed in 1914 to the USS San Diego, in order to free up the name for a new, Tennessee-class battleship. The USS San Diego went on to serve in both the Pacific and Atlantic fleets during World War I, until being sunk off the coast of New York by a German mine in 1918, with a loss of six lives.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 287

    Caption: "A Chrysler Car Maneuver Chicago Fair. Sept. 23, 1934." A car appears to be rolling over in this photograph of the Chrysler Track at Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition. 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: 9/23/1934