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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 08, Photograph 161

    Caption: "Government exhibits of clothing, Government Building." This exhibit demonstrates a variety of military uniforms, displayed on mannequins. It was located in the Government Building of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It 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

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 007

    Caption: "Saint Francis Hotel." See also 96-07-08-alb01-002, with caption: "Hotel-Saint Francis," c. 1913. St. Francis Hotel at Union Square with partial north wing extension and the Dewey Monument in the foreground (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), which commemorated U.S. Admiral George Dewey's naval victory at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American War of 1898. The luxury hotel opened in 1904 and, fortunately, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. It was expanded in 1913, and 1972, making it one of the largest hotels in the city.

    Date: 1913

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 047

    Caption: "On The Sacramento River. View from end of train," c. 1906, shows a train traveling along the Sacramento River in northern California.

    Date: 1906

  • Old Series Trademark No. 3764

    Pacific Prune Syrup

    Date: 1900

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2763

    Monogram Fruit Wax

    Date: 1896

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 049

    Caption: "Joy Ride -- Skaggs Springs," c. 1914. William (standing in front to the right) and Grace (third from the left in the wagon) McCarthy and a group of unidentified people all holding bunches of grapes, either getting ready for or coming back from a ride in a horse-drawn wagon. Skaggs Springs was a resort area along the Russian River in Sonoma County, known for its hot springs. The area now lies beneath the waters of Lake Sonoma, flooded after construction of the Warm Springs Dam, completed in 1982.

    Date: 1914

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2003

    Chinese Drugs, Teas, and Herbs Kept at the Old Place by Dr. Y. Chuing Lee

    Date: 1891

  • Schedule I Volume I

    The Census of 1852 collection includes enumerations of California's 32 counties, arranged into 126 volumes. Schedule I enumerated the county's inhabitants, while schedule II enurmerated economic production. Many pages of this volume are damaged.

    Date: California Secretary of State

  • Correspondence on AB2710

    Correspondence from Patrick Johnston to Carole Hayashino of the JACL and National Committee for Redress regarding the bill, bill readings, and a press conference

    Date: February 2, 1982