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  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 076

    Caption: "Nudist Colony - San Diego Exposition," c. 1935. The Zoro Garden Nudist Colony, named for the Persian mystic, Zoroaster, was an unusual and controversial attraction that featured partially nude men and women performing as nudists. Exposition visitors were charged twenty-five cents to watch the "nudists" perform ceremonies and other activities. Today, the sunken Zoro Garden in Balboa Park is a butterfly garden.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 304

    Caption: "Casa Del Rey -- Santa Cruz.," c. 1911. View of the resort hotel known as Casa del Rey, built in 1911 in Santa Cruz. The hotel operated until sustaining significant damage in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The building was subsequently demolished.

    Date: 1911

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 077

    Caption: "Nudist Colony - San Diego Expo.," c. 1935. The Zoro Garden Nudist Colony, named for the Persian mystic, Zoroaster, was an unusual and controversial attraction that featured partially nude men and women performing as nudists. Exposition visitors were charged twenty-five cents to watch the "nudists" perform ceremonies and other activities. Today, the sunken Zoro Garden in Balboa Park is a butterfly garden.

    Date: 1935

  • eichler_f3274_407_7

    Preliminary design drawing by Alfred Eichler of M Street Bridge Machinery House; the drawing, dated February 9, 1934, is labeled "superseded." The Tower Bridge replaced the M Street Bridge, which was removed in 1935. Project for Department of Public Works - Highways - Bridge Department.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 127

    Caption: "Court House -- Lake Port -- Lake Co.," c. 1920. Shows the second of three courthouses that have served Lake County, in Lakeport, California. The building in this image, constructed in 1871, served as the county courthouse until it was replaced in 1968.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 027

    Caption: "Oakland City Hall," c. 1906. Pictured is Oakland's old City Hall at 14th and Broadway. Upon the completion of the new and current city hall in 1914, the old city hall was demolished to make way for City Hall Plaza, now Frank H. Ogawa Plaza.

    Date: 1906

  • Monterey County, Placer Times and Transcript: Census of 1852, State of California

    Closeup on Monterey County from image of a page from the newspaper Placer Times reporting the Census of 1852 returns.

    Date: 1853

  • Correspondence on Resettlement Aid

    Correspondence from Beulah L. Lewis to Charles M. Wollenberg regarding resettlement assistance; Attachment: General Relief Basic Budget Table No. 33

    Date: March 11, 1946

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 244

    Caption: "Starrett Tool Works, Athol, Massachusetts. Sept. 6, 1934." The Starrett Tool Works was founded in 1880, when Laroy Sunderland Starrett started a tool shop in Athol. He later expanded the facility, until by 1906 the company employed more than 1,000 workers in the manufacture of precision tools. By the time Starrett died in 1922, the company had achieved global recognition, establishing offices in more than a dozen countries. Starrett is still in operation today.

    Date: 9/6/1934

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 106

    Caption: "Bird's Eye View. Camp Lewis, Wash.," c. 1918. This postcard shows a bird's eye view of buildings at Camp Lewis. The Camp was established by the U.S. Army in 1917, as part of the U.S.'s preparations for eventual entry into World War I. Rapid construction had the camp ready to house 60,000 men within a few months. The site is still in use as a military facility, under the name Fort Lewis.

    Date: 1918