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  • Memo on Canceled Assistance Claims by Tulare County's Board of Supervisors

    Inter Office Memorandum from W.T. Pyott, Jr. to Enid Snow regarding cancellation of aid to Japanese

    Date: November 13, 1945

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1815

    Superior Evaporated French Prunes

    Date: 1890

  • Correspondence on Policy

    Correspondence from Azile H. Aaron to Martha A. Chickering regarding policies adopted by the War Relocation Authority; Attachments: "Excerpt from Information Digest No. 520" (F3729_65_007b), "Excerpt from Victory" (F3729_65_007c)

    Date: August 24, 1942

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 251

    Caption: "Yosemite Falls," c.1917. Both the Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls, on Yosemite Creek, are visible in this photograph, taken from the valley floor. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 082

    Caption: "Bow of the Connecticut," unidentified location, undated.

    Date: undated

  • 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

  • Memo on War Programs

    Office memorandum from Martha A. Chickering to Elizabeth MacLatchie regarding summary of conference on aid provided to evacuees

    Date: April 17, 1942

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 265

    No caption, c. 1935. Unidentified man standing in front of an Indian abode in the Yosemite Valley,

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 020

    No Caption: Fountain of Energy (A. Stirling Calder, sculptor), with the Tower of Jewels at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 331

    Caption: "Golden Gate Bridge Opening Day. U.S. Fleet Passing Under the Golden Gate Bridge. U.S. Flag Ship Pennsylvania [sic]. May 28, 1937." View of the super-dreadnaught battleship USS Pennsylvania as she passed under the Golden Gate Bridge as part of the celebrations surrounding the bridge's opening day. The third U.S. Navy ship named for the state of Pennsylvania, she was launched in 1915. The Pennsylvania served in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, and was damaged while in dry-dock during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. After being repaired, she spend the remainder of World War II in the Pacific Theater. Hit by a torpedo in August 1945, the severely damaged Pennsylvania was repaired well enough to serve as a target ship during Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests off Bikini Atoll in July 1946. She was decommissioned that year, and after undergoing radiation testing, was scuttled by the U.S. Navy in February 1948.

    Date: 5/28/1937