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Caption: "Pan-American Highway monument marking the highway completion, July 1, 1936 Altitude 8209 feet. Highest point on route - 15 miles south of Octopan [sic], Mexico." Pictured is William McCarthy standing before the "Monument of Good Friendship (El Monumento de Buena Amistad), near Actopan, Mexico.
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Baker's Beach. 6" Battery," c. 1906, in San Francisco.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Boulder Dam and Water Control Towers for Generating Power," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "State Capitol, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Sept. 29, 1934". Wyoming's State Capitol Building in Cheyenne was built between 1886 and 1890. Designed by the architectural firm David W. Gibbs & Company, the building features Renaissance Revival styling and elements.
Date: 9/29/1934
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Caption: "Alligator Wrestler at the Alligator Farm -- Miami Fla. July 1, 1934." Unidentified man kneeling with his knees entrapping an alligator, and holding its mouth closed with his hands.
Date: 7/1/1934
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Caption: "Ornament for Stair Halls - Primary Dormitories. Girls Dormitory." Design drawing of ornaments for girls' and boys' wings, of California School for the Deaf at Berkeley. Project for Department of Education.
Date: 1930
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No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb07-280 with caption: "Riverside Villa Aug. 15, 1915." A group of McCarthy friends and family at Riverside Villa along the Russian River in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California, 1915.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Sept. 20, 1934, The Big Studebaker Theatre. Capacity 80 People. Chicago Fair." This giant replica of a 1934 Studebaker Land Cruiser at the Century of Progress Exposition, made of plaster over a wood frame, sat above a small theater capable of sitting eighty people. The Exposition, a world fair attended by thirty-nine million people, celebrated Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. Originally planned to only run from May to November in 1933, it was such a success that its organizers decided to keep it running for a second season from May through October the following year. The central theme of the Exposition was technological innovation, with a motto of "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms."
Date: 9/20/1934
