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Caption: "Broadway, Los Angeles. Calif. May 18, 1934." Street scene showing a view of Broadway in Los Angeles. Hotel Alhambra is visible in the foreground on both sides of the street, while the clock tower of the Los Angeles County Courthouse is visible at the left.
Date: 5/18/1934
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No caption. Grace McCarthy standing next to an exhibit by the San Monte Fruit Company at the 1912 "Big Week" in Salinas (Monterey County), an event still celebrated today as the Salinas Rodeo. The exhibit consists of a globe made of apples and apple slices. See also 96-07-08-alb05-062.
Date: 1912
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Caption: "Machinists and Millrights [sic], Crockett Sugar Mill," c. 1906, shows a group photo of sugar mill employees. William McCarthy is seen kneeling in front row (fourth from right).
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Golden Gate Bridge, Pedestrian Day. May 27, 1937." View of crowds walking across the just-completed Golden Gate Bridge as part of Pedestrian Day. Pedestrian Day kicked off the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta celebrating the opening of the now-iconic bridge. Approximately 200,000 people walked or roller-skated across the bridge during the Pedestrian Day festivities, held the day before the bridge opened to vehicular traffic.
Date: 5/27/1937
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Caption: "Many Glaciers Hotel on Swift Current Lake Shore, Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "General Motors Building, Chicago Fair. Sept. 17, 1934." Grace McCarthy stands at a railing with the General Motors Building in the background. The building was part of the Century of Progress 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." None of the buildings constructed for the fair are still extant today, having been built as temporary facilities.
Date: 9/17/1934
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No caption. William McCarthy in a swimsuit at an unidentified location, c. 1910.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Japanese Garden, Golden Gate Park.," c. 1905. View of the five-acre Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Established in 1894 by George Turner Marsh for the Midwinter Exposition of that year, it is the oldest public Japanese Tea Garden in the U.S.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Race Track -- S.F. Exposition." Race track at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition, held in 1915. A horse race is in progress, with several spectators out of their seats in anticipation of the finish.
Date: 1915
