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  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 371

    Caption: "The bull charging while the Matador stands motionless. Bull fight - Monterey [sic], Mexico."

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 195

    Caption: "3" Barbett [sic] Gun," c. 1915. Side view of a barbette (gun emplacement) featuring a 3" heavy artillery gun (firing projectiles three inches in diameter).

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 158

    Caption: "Tybee Beach, Savannah, Georgia, July 14, 1934." Beach scene with a small crowd of unidentified people enjoying the ocean waves and strolling in the sand. The large Tybrisa Pavilion, set on a wood pier, extends into the water. Tybee Beach is one of several beaches in Tybee Island, a town on an island of the same name located across the river from Savannah. The island became a popular tourist spot between the Civil War and the mid-twentieth century, particularly after the Central of Georgia Railway constructed a line to the island. To encourage tourists, the railroad built Tybrisa Pavilion in 1891. It featured a large dance floor that became popular on the Big Band circuit, but was destroyed by fire in 1967.

    Date: 7/14/1934

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 230

    Caption: "Unknown Soldiers Grave - Arlington Cemetry[sic]," c. 1925. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, also called the Tomb of the Unknowns, memorializes those U.S. military service members who died without their remains being later identified. The remains of the first Unknown Soldier, stemming from World War I and disinterred from a cemetery in France, were laid to rest in the tomb in 1921.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 120

    Caption: "Lucky Woodchuck, Yellowstone National Park," c. 1935. An unidentified woman seen feeding a woodchuck.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 379

    Caption: "Hermoso [sic] Dorothy Gandy. A youthful Mexican beauty."

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 160

    Caption: "Saint Mary's Lake and going to the Sun Mountain. Glacier National Park," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 278

    Caption: "Fitch Mountain Tavern - Healdsburg," c. 1915.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 226

    Caption: "Saw Mill -- Astoria Oregon," c. 1905-1909. Saw mill on the Columbia River, near Astoria.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 188

    Caption: "City Hall Ruins." Photograph of the former San Francisco City Hall building, destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.

    Date: 1906