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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 026

    Caption: "Indian Hut Made From Adobe and Bush Branches, Sacaton Indian Reservation, Sacaton, Arizona, May, 24, 1934." View of a small adobe building with a porch area across the length of the façade. The porch is sheltered by a low roof supported by tree trunks or thick tree branches and thatched with grass or sticks. Located south of Phoenix and including the town of Sacaton, the Gila River Indian Reservation is home to members of the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and the Pee-Posh (Maricopa) tribes. The reservation was established in 1859. Eighty years later, in 1939, Congress provided for the self-governance of the reservation via the Gila River Indian Community.

    Date: 5/24/1934

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 086

    Caption: "Power Transmission Tower. 2411 Towers - 270 Miles. 1.4 Inch DIA. Power Line. One of the Towers of the Power Line From Boulder Dam to L.A.," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 175

    Caption: "General View - Panama Pacific International Exposition."

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 074

    Caption: "Williams Canion [sic] - Cave of the Winds," c. 1923. View of a rugged canyon with a small building perched on one wall featuring a sign reading "CAVE." In 1880, two brothers, George and John Pickett, discovered the entrance to a large cave system in Williams Canyon. Further exploration resulted in opening more caverns within the system. The site became a tourist attraction called "Cave of the Winds," with guided tours having been on offer since 1881.

    Date: 1923

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2919

    German Fruit Co., Wines and Brandies

    Date: 1897

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 176

    Caption: "Swift Current Lake - Glacier National Park, the Garden Wall and McCloud Mountain in the distance," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 159

    Caption: "The John Shields Home. N.Y." Residence of John Shields, on Long Island in the Daybreak Estate area. See also 96-07-08-alb11-221.

    Date: 8/20/1934

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 030

    No Caption: Shows a group of adult African lions in a enclosed area of Gay's Lion Farm in El Monte, Los Angeles. Charles and Muriel Gay opened the farm in 1925 and operated it until 1942 as a popular tourist attraction where lions were selectively bred and trained for the Hollywood film industry. It was closed during WWII due to wartime meat shortages, and the lions were loaned to zoos around the country, c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 104

    Caption: "Court House -- Seattle.," c. 1916. The King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle, Washington, was built in 1916 as a five-story structure, as shown in this photograph. Six floors were added in 1930, and another three before 1965. In 1967, a massive remodeling project imposed aluminum curtain walls on the building's east and west sides, changed the main entryway switched to Third Avenue rather than Jefferson Street, and made other changes to the interior.

    Date: 1916

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 223

    Caption: "Indian over 100 years old," c. 1905. Elderly man, possibly of Native American ethnicity, standing in front of a barn. Taken around 1905 in San Diego near the Old Mission, If William McCarthy's description is accurate, this person was born while California was under Spanish rule. Possibly of the Kumeyaay tribe, whose members had lived in the area long before the Spanish arrived, he may have lived and worked at Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá (Mission San Diego) or at a nearby Indian village.

    Date: 1905