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  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 425

    Caption: "Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan (Tay-o-tee-haw-can), Mexico."

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 201

    Caption: "Empire State Building in Center, Lower Manhattan in the Distance. View from Radio City Bldg. New York. Aug. 3, 1934." The Empire State Building dominates this bird's eye view of New York. Construction began on this iconic 102-story building, designed by William F. Lamb, in 1930. Completed by early 1931, it held the title of world's tallest building for almost 40 years, until being surpassed in 1970 by the construction of the World Trade Center's North Tower. It is now the fifth-tallest building in the U.S., and the 28th-tallest in the world.

    Date: 8/3/1934

  • "What Can I Do"

    "The citizens handbook for war" issued by United States Office of Civilian Defense

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 171

    Caption: "After the Fire," shows the remains of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fires. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.

    Date: 1906

  • Old Series Trademark No. 3294

    The Komfort

    Date: 1898

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 184

    Caption: "Trestle in the Siskiyou Mountains," c. 1910. Train crossing trestle in Siskiyou Mountains in northern California or southern Oregon. Smoke obscures the forward cars of the train, presumably from the locomotive. See also Album 96-07-08-alb08-093.

    Date: 1910

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2470

    Lion Brand

    Date: 1894

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 202

    Caption: "94 Midwood St. Brooklyn." View of a three-story brick house or apartment building, with a park or empty lot on one side. See also 96-07-08-alb11-235, where the building is captioned as "The Walsh Home."

    Date: 9/2/1934

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 090

    Caption: "Fountain of the Setting Sun" or Descending Night (Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor), in the Court of the Universe, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 064

    Caption: "Mothers War Memorial, Gulfport, Mississippi, June 19, 34." A columned memorial is visible at the left side of this photograph of Gulfport, Mississippi. Two multi-story buildings stand at the right.

    Date: 6/19/1934