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  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 001

    No Caption: Grace McCarthy standing under a palm at unidentified location, c. 1910.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 211

    No caption, c. 1920. Grace McCarthy standing on a log in front of an unidentified lake.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 105

    Caption: "Hialeah Race Track -- Miami -- Florida July 1, 1934." Grace McCarthy standing behind the grandstand at Hialeah Park Race Track, in Hialeah (near Miami). Constructed in 1922 as a greyhound racetrack, Hialeah began hosting horse races in 1925. Joseph E. Widener purchased the track in 1930. He embarked upon a series of improvements, adding a grandstand (seen here) and clubhouse facilities designed by Lester W. Geisler, as well as landscaped gardens and a lake in the infield that became home to a flock of flamingos. The new and improved Hialeah track, now called Hialeah Park, officially opened in 1932.

    Date: 7/1/1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 091

    Caption: "Tamiami Trail Through the Florida Everglades, June 27, 1934." Asphalt-paved road stretching into the distance, flanked on one side by a canal. The Tamiami Trail constitutes a scenic portion of what is now U.S. Highway 41. Work on a road connecting Tampa with Miami began in 1915, but the Trail was not officially opened until 1928. Work on the route required building across a portion of the massive swamp system of the Everglades. Workers dredged and blasted a canal along the route, and used the fill dirt thus removed to construct the roadway proper.

    Date: 6/27/1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 279

    Caption: "Henry Ford's First Automobile and Machine Shop, Chicago Fair Exhibit. Sept. 19, 1934." This exhibit within the Ford Building at Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition replicated Henry Ford's original workshop, including a Quadricycle, the first automobile produced by Ford. 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: 9/19/1934

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 170

    Caption: "Shasta Springs, Calif.," c. 1910. View of a waterfall behind a small gabled building and attached patio. Shasta Springs, just north of Dunsmuir, California, in the Trinity Mountains, was a resort area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It centered around natural springs, which became a featured stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Shasta Route. The resort operated until the 1950s, when it was purchased by private interests.

    Date: 1910

  • Statue of civil rights leader Medgar Evers on the campus of Alcorn State University, a historically Black university in Lorman, Mississippi

    This item has no description.

    Date: 2017

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 119

    Caption: "Feeding the Woodchuck - Yellowstone," c. 1935. William McCarthy feeding a woodchuck.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 047

    No Caption: A Joshua tree in bloom in the Arizona desert, c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 225

    No caption: Grace McCarthy in a swimsuit at an unidentified location, c. 1910.

    Date: 1910