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Caption: "Touring De Luxe. Arranging Sleeping Quarters. Oct. 10, 1934." William McCarthy is arranging pads for sleeping in the car that the couple used to travel across the U.S. The vehicle appears to be a Studebaker sedan, possibly dating from the mid-1920s.

Date: 10/10/1934

Caption: "Congressional Library Interior," c. 1925. View of part of the book stacks within the Library of Congress. The building, originally called the Library of Congress Building, opened to the public in 1897. Its name was changed in 1980 to honor Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third President of the U.S.

Date: 1925

Caption: "Museum of Natural History N.Y.," c. 1925. View of the original building of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The Victorian Gothic-style building, often referred to as a "castle," was designed by J. Wrey Mould. It opened in 1877. Later expansions added to the complex around this building and have disguised much of it from view.

Date: 1925

No Caption: View of the Manufacturing Building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Held in Seattle to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest, the fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Although most of the fair's buildings have since been destroyed, several of them now serve as part of the University of Washington campus.

Date: 1909

Caption: "Gaviota Pass," c. 1915-1916. Shows concrete bridge over Gaviota Creek at Gaviota Pass, a pass in the Santa Ynez mountains just north of Santa Barbara. The pass allows U.S. Route 101 to pass through the coastal mountains to the interior.

Date: 1915

No Caption: A scene from the 1909 Portola Festival, a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.

Date: 1909

Caption: "Devils Gate -- Nevada -- Elevation 7540 Feet." Devil's Gate is a rock formation near Silver City, Nevada. In the nineteenth century a portion of the formation was blasted away to create enough space for a wagon road, which became a toll road serving as an entryway to the Nevada silver fields.

Date: 1927

Caption: "Presidio Nursery." Image of flower and plant beds at San Francisco's Presidio. One of the beds uses plants and flowers to spell out the word "Presidio."

Date: Undated

No Caption: Grace McCarthy standing in the snow at the entrance to Camp Curry campground in Yosemite National Park, c. 1932.

Date: 1932

Caption: "Yosemite Driveways," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy and two unidentified people pose next to a vehicle on a dirt road in Yosemite National Park.

Date: 1917