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  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 014

    Caption: "New Westminster Bridge.," c. 1908-1912. View of the New Westminster Bridge (also known as the New Westminster Rail Bridge or the Fraser River Swing Bridge), which opened to traffic in 1904. The lower deck carried trains, while the upper deck (which was removed in 1937) was accessible to both foot and vehicle traffic.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 171

    Caption: "Washington State Capitol -- Olympia.," c. 1920. Also known as The Castle, this building served as Washington's state capitol building from 1905 to 1928, when the Legislature moved into the current building. The central tower of The Castle was lost in a 1928 fire, while numerous other towers fell to the 1949 Olympia earthquake. Some of those towers have been restored.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 022

    Caption: "Presidio Avenue. Entrance to Presidio," c. 1906. Gateway into the Presidio of San Francisco, bracketed by brick podiums topped by ornamental pinnacles. Three soldiers stand guard at the gate. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

    Date: 1906

  • 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 06, Photograph 101

    Caption: "Pump Room and Boiler House," c. 1906, shows a man posing for a photograph next to machinery at the Crockett Sugar Mill.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 122

    No caption, c. 1920. River scene with a boat, possibly a paddle steamer, traveling close to the riverbank at the left side of the photograph.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 230

    Caption: "Entrance - California Building," (Bertrum Goodhue, architect), shows the richly-decorated entranceway to the California Building at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego, 1915.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 109

    Caption: "119. Kobenhavn, Raadhuspladsen." This postcard shows a view of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was sent to William and Grace McCarthy on May 12, 1915, from Copenhagen.

    Date: 1915

  • eichler_f3274_337

    Design and drawing of California National Guard Armory, Pomona, by Alfred Eichler. Built to a different design by outside architect. Project for California Military Department.

    Date: 1932

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 266

    Caption: "State Street, Chicago, Ill. Sept. 15, 1934." Busy street scene in Chicago, featuring a view of a raised rail track for what appear to be passenger trains.

    Date: 9/15/1934