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  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 263

    Caption: "Potato Race - July 4, 1917." Several horseback riders holding long poles skirmish 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

  • Photo 002

    Photo of man standing near parcels to be shipped

    Date: Undated

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2398

    Cyclone

    Date: 1894

  • eichler_f3274_403

    Caption: "Design No. 7." Pencil drawing of Tower Bridge concrete towers by Alfred Eichler. Note on drawing: "Tower subject to modification." Project for Department of Public Works - Highways - Bridge Department.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 086

    Caption: "Congressional Library -- Washington D.C.," c. 1920. Interior photograph of entrance to the Library of Congress.

    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

  • 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

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 270

    Caption: "U.S. 1-inch Gun, Subcaliber Practice." c. 1905. William McCarthy poses next to a large piece of heavy artillery at what appears to be a battery for coastal defense.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 179

    Caption: "The Alameda of Presidio," c. 1906. View of a dirt or graveled drive, lined by cannonballs, leading to a small roundabout. The Alameda served as the principle gateway into the Presidio of San Francisco from the 1860s to 1895.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 258

    Caption: "Placing the Bandarillias [sic]." Two images pasted into the photograph album next to each other, both showing bulls in a bullring. In both photographs, banderilleros are attempting to place banderillas (short barbed sticks) in each bull's shoulders.

    Date: 1905