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No caption: Grace McCarthy (far left) poses with four unidentified women in front of a small body of water, c. 1925.

Date: 1925

No caption. Commemorative stamp celebrating the upcoming Golden Gate International Exposition, c. 1938. The Exposition, which ran from February through October in 1939 and May to September in 1940, celebrated the completion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (1936) and the Golden Gate Bridge (1937). More than ten million people attended in 1939, while an additional five million visited in 1940. The Exposition was held on an artificial island created by dredging more than 19 million cubic yards of material from the bottom of the bay. The federal government completed this dredging and fill, intending for the site, called Treasure Island, to become a municipal airport after the exposition. However, the advent of World War II resulted in the U.S. Navy taking over the site, holding it until for military purposes until 1997.

Date: 1938

Caption: "Our Motor Tour to Mexico City March 26th to June 8th 1938. Total Mileage 5,500, Grace & Will McCarthy. Highway indicated by Blue Line," written on a map of Mexico, with a photograph of William and Grace McCarthy next to a large sign detailing their tour of Mexico as described above.

Date: 1938

Caption: "Market Street Burning." Fire engulfing buildings in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, including the Call Building.

Date: 4/18/1906

No Caption: Court of the Universe, with arch, colonnades, and statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915

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

Caption: "Seaside Beach, Or.," undated. View of a rocky ocean beach and ocean breakers.

Date: Undated

No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people in swim suits posing on a river bank. William McCarthy is standing in the middle row, third from the left.

Date: 1920

Caption: "City Hall, San Francisco.," c. 1925. View of the Beaux Arts-style building that replaced San Francisco's City Hall after the original building was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. Designed by architect Arthur Brown, Jr., the building occupies two full city blocks. See also 96-07-08-alb09-003, 96-07-08-alb10-001, and 96-07-08-alb11-001.

Date: 1925

Caption: "Steilacoom Lake Near Tacoma, Washington," c. 1935.

Date: 1935