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  • Old Series Trademark No. 1104

    Rising Sun

    Date: 1884

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 074

    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

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 003b

    No Caption: Canadian one-cent postage stamp commemorating the three-hundred year anniversary of the founding of Quebec in 1608. This stamp features portraits of Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain, early explorers of Canada. Cartier was the first to claim Canada for the French crown in 1534, while Champlain founded New Canada and Quebec City in 1608.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 040

    No Caption: San Joaquin County Courthouse (E.E. Myers, architect), Stockton, California, c. 1906. The neoclassical building was completed in 1890 and demolished in 1961 to make way for a new courthouse.

    Date: 1906

  • Prohibited Zones Military Area #2

    List of key locations in each prohibited zone by county

    Date: April 6, 1942

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 104

    Caption: "Venice," c. 1915-1916. Street scene in Venice, California. The "Venice of America Band" is playing in the center of the photograph.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 074

    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-160 with caption: "Government exhibits with navy guns, Government Building." Portland Fair, Oregon, 1905. Shows a variety of naval weaponry. The exhibit was located in the Government Building of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. The exposition celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.

    Date: 1905

  • President Lyndon B. Johnson handing a signing pen to Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the signing ceremony for the Voting Rights Act

    This item has no description.

    Date: 1965

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0484

    Pride of the Pacific

    Date: 1879

  • Information Regarding Resettlement of Japanese

    Information secured by the Intelligence Division of the War Department for the Governor's Office regarding sentiment towards Japanese returning to various counties in California

    Date: November 28, 1944