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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 033a

    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 11, Photograph 021

    Caption: "Agua Caliente Swimming Pool -- Mexico -- May 20, 34." View of the swimming pool, with bathers and people socializing around the water, at Agua Caliente Casino and Resort. Designed by Wayne McAllister, the resort opened in Tijuana in 1928. It closed only a few years later, in 1935, when Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas outlawed gambling.

    Date: 5/20/1934

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 139

    Caption: "Bruin stands for a bite," c. 1935, shows William McCarthy feeding a bear, while another man looks on.

    Date: 1935

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2229

    Tampa and Key West Cigar Co.

    Date: 1893

  • eichler_f3274_088_025

    Caption: "Section Looking West." Color drawing of postwar building, California School for the Deaf at Berkeley. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler, 1944; built in 1946. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1944

  • eichler_f3274_384

    Design of office building for the Division of Highways, Los Angeles, by Anson Boyd and R. D. Murray. Built. Project for Department of Public Works - Highways - District VII - Los Angeles.

    Date: 1946

  • eichler_f3274_407_9

    Drawing of lamp design for M Street Bridge by Alfred Eichler, February 15, 1934. The Tower Bridge replaced the M Street Bridge, which was removed in 1935. Project for Department of Public Works - Highways - Bridge Department.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 239

    Caption: "San Jose Court House Damaged by the Quake," c. 1906. A view of the San Jose Courthouse (left), and Hall of Records, which sustained some damage seen along the roofline, as a result of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

    Date: 1906

  • Correspondence on Tule Lake Riots

    Correspondence from Herbert W. Slater to W. T. Sweigert regarding riots at Tule Lake and control of Tule Lake by the Army

    Date: November 16, 1943

  • eichler_f3274_246_6

    Caption: "East Elevation, revised." Design and drawing of Art Building, State Fair, Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, by Alfred Eichler. Not built. From packet containing sketch plans, elevations, section and perspective. Project for Department of Finance - Fairs and Expositions.

    Date: 1937