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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 011

    Caption: "Lancaster Battery, Presidio," c. 1906, shows a distant view of Lancaster Battery. 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 325

    Caption: "San Francisco Bay Bridge Cable Anchorage. Nov. 1, 1935." View of a cable anchorage at one terminus of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The Bay Bridge's design combined three different types of bridge-building technology over the five miles it covers between San Francisco and Oakland: a suspension span, a cantilevered span, and a tunnel. At the time of its completion in 1936 the bridge was the longest steel structure on the globe. It also featured the deepest bridge pier ever built, and the world's largest bore tunnel.

    Date: 11/1/1935

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph x006

    Caption: "Delaware & Hudson R.R. Exhibit. Chicago. Sept. 21, 1934. First Locomotive to Operate on an American Railroad, August 8, 1829." View of a replica of the Stourbridge Lion, the first steam locomotive to operate in the U.S., on lines built by the Delaware and Hudson Railway (formerly the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company). The replica was displayed at the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition, celebrating Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. This photograph was loose in the box with Album 11.

    Date: 9/21/1934

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 131

    Caption: "Mallet Articulated Compound Locomotive," Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 056

    Caption: "A.Y.P.E. Seattle." Cascading fountains at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was held in Seattle, Washington in 1909 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

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 176

    Caption: "Camp Life.," c. 1915-1920. William and Grace McCarthy seated next to automobile at an unidentified campground for a meal. See also 96-07-08-alb04-175, 179, 180, 181, and 182.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 080

    No Caption: Court of Abundance, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-063.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 070

    Caption: "Night Scene - San Diego Exposition," 1935, a night scene at San Diego's California-Pacific International Exposition shows the Arch of the Future with its multi-colored lights built within the Plaza del Pacifico.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 154

    Caption: "East Side Street Scene. N.Y," c. 1925. Bird's eye view of a street in New York City's East Side. The city's skyline looms in the background.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 117

    Caption: "U.S. 10" Gun Dismounted.," c. 1905. View from the side of a 10" disappearing gun, a heavy coastal artillery weapon. It has been dismounted from its carriage, with one end held up by timbers. An unidentified man is seated near the barrel of the gun.

    Date: 1905