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  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 161

    Caption: "The John Shields Home." Side view of the residence of John Shields on Long Island, with a car parked under a carport.

    Date: 1934

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2170

    Pride of Columbia

    Date: 1892

  • 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

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 264

    Caption: "Potato Race," c. 1917. Several horseback riders holding long poles skirmish around a bucket in what appears to be a game similar to polo, played with a potato. A crowd has gathered to watch the game, while the rock cliff walls of Yosemite Valley tower in the background. Given the date, this was likely part of Independence Day festivities in the Yosemite Valley.

    Date: 7/4/1917

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1205

    Dr. Mosher's White Liniment

    Date: 1884

  • Old Series Trademark No. 3218

    Dandelion

    Date: 1898

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 018

    Caption: "Presidio and Golden Gate," c. 1906. A high vantage point view of the Presidio and Golden Gate. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 227

    Caption: "Field Piece in Action." Unidentified location, c. 1905-1915. Shows a crew of men operating a 3" field gun, a heavy artillery gun set onto a carriage for mobile use. The U.S. military used these guns between 1905 and 1919, gradually phasing them out of use during the 1920s in favor of more modern weapons.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 272

    Caption: "U.S. 10-inch Gun Dismounted." A close-up view of a large gun that has been partially dismounted, at an unidentified coastal defense battery.

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 284

    Caption: "Yosemite Driveways," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy and two unidentified people pose next to a vehicle on a dirt road in Yosemite National Park.

    Date: 1917