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  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 100

    Caption: "Vendome San Jose," c. 1910, was a luxury hotel in San Jose that opened in 1889. It was purchased by a real estate syndicate in 1930 and subsequently demolished in order to subdivide the property into lots for residential housing.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 168

    Caption, c. 1905. Sixteen camels pull the Ringling Brothers Egyptian Circus Wagon down a street in Santa Rosa in this photograph. The Ringling Brothers Circus first came to Santa Rosa in 1903. The traveling circus became an annual event in the town for the next two decades.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 193

    Caption: "Hotel Vendome," c. 1910, was a luxury hotel in San Jose that opened in 1889. It was purchased by a real estate syndicate in 1930 and subsequently demolished in order to subdivide the property into lots for residential housing. See also 96-07-08-alb03-100 and 96-07-08-alb05-115.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 311

    Caption: "Cooking Apparatus. One in Place on Motor, Two Removed. Oct. 10, 1934." This photograph shows three metal boxes used by the McCarthys for cooking during their five-month cross-country auto trip. One of the boxes is set on the engine of their automobile to heat the contents.

    Date: 10/10/1934

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 240

    Caption: "Cabrilla [sic] Bridge. P.C. Exp. San Diego. July 18, 1915," Built for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, the Cabrillo Bridge continues to provide access between Balboa Park and the uptown area of San Diego. See also 96-07-08-alb01-161.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 074

    Caption: "Nudist Colony - San Diego Expo.," c. 1935. The Zoro Garden Nudist Colony, named for the Persian mystic, Zoroaster, was an unusual and controversial attraction that featured partially nude men and women performing as nudists. Exposition visitors were charged twenty-five cents to watch the "nudists" perform ceremonies and other activities. Today, the sunken Zoro Garden in Balboa Park is a butterfly garden.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 003b

    No Caption: Canadian one-cent postage stamp commemorating the three-hundred year anniversary of the founding of Quebec in 1608. This stamp features portraits of Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain, early explorers of Canada. Cartier was the first to claim Canada for the French crown in 1534, while Champlain founded New Canada and Quebec City in 1608.

    Date: 1908

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1895

    Coronilla, Knapsack, La Rosa Espanilla

    Date: 1890

  • "Tulare County"

    Review of War Services in Tulare County; Sections: Civilian War Assistance, Resettlement Assistance

    Date: January 15, 1946

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1707

    White Star, Standard of Japan, American Shield, Argonaut Brand, Amazon Brand, Yum Yum

    Date: 1889