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  • California Constitution of 1849

    California’s first Constitutional Convention was held in Monterey in 1849. The original constitution, published in both English and Spanish the same year, was written by 48 delegates on nineteen pages of parchment. Article II, The Right to Suffrage stipulates that only white males have the right to suffrage.

    Date: 1849

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 296

    Caption: "Rocky Mountains Near Evanston, Wyoming. Oct. 2, 1934." Automobile parked along a narrow road, flanked on one side by brush and trees in a field, and on the other by steep rocky bluffs.

    Date: 10/2/1934

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 150

    Caption: "Coronado Hotel." The Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego County opened in 1888. It was designated a California Historic Landmark in 1970, and a National Historic Landmark in 1977.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 352

    No Caption: A group of unidentified men standing and seated at a circular bar at the Cal-Neva Lodge, located on the border of California and Nevada, c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 180

    Caption: "Tamalpais R.R." c. 1907. A view of the Muir Woods Railway, established in 1896 as a scenic tourist railway between Mill Valley and the east peak of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County.

    Date: 1907

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 194

    Caption: "String of Cars, Market Street Ferry," 1906. A view of cable cars, people, and a scaffolded Ferry Building at the end of Market Street, after the 1906 earthquake.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 182

    Caption: "Devil On Wheels," c. 1925. Unidentified person in a devil costume posing on a bicycle in front of the John Shields residence in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 173

    Caption: "SPORTS," c. 1917. Image of a pole vaulter attempting to clear a jump, with rows of men clad in military uniforms observing. The uniforms and the surrounding vegetation suggest that this may have taken place at Camp Lewis, Washington.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 164

    Caption: "Walterboro Negroes and Their Shack. If the Window Wont [sic] Stay Closed, Put a Stick Up to It, You Wont [sic] Break the Glass. House Foundation Gone But They Live Merrily On. July 17, 1934." Unidentified family posing in front of a dilapidated home in Walterboro.

    Date: 7/17/1934

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 224

    Caption: "A Chicago 8" Gun." View of an 8" gun on the USS Chicago. Several crew members are visible in the photograph as well.

    Date: 1905