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  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 180

    Caption: "Grinnell Glacier - Glacier National Park. Method of observing one of the many deep crevasses on Grinnell Glacier. Your life depends on the man on the other end of the rope." c. 1935. William McCarthy tied to a rope and looking into a crevasse on Grinnell Glacier.

    Date: 1935

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2886

    Climax Waterproof Butchers' Manilla

    Date: 1896

  • Memo on Farm Labor

    Memorandum from W. J. Cecil regarding the Wartime Farm Adjustment Program and Japanese farms; see attachments

    Date: March 21, 1942

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 316

    Caption: "San Francisco, Oakland Bay Bridge. Opening Day, Nov. 12, 1936." View of a portion of the ceremonies officially opening the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to traffic upon its completion in November 1936. The Bay Bridge's design combined three different types of bridge-building technology over the five miles it covers between San Francisco and Oakland: a suspension span, a cantilevered span, and a tunnel. At the time of its completion the bridge was the longest steel structure on the globe. It also featured the deepest bridge pier ever built, and the world's largest bore tunnel.

    Date: 11/12/1936

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 174

    Caption: "State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia. July 21, 1934." Virginia's State Capitol is visible in the left side of this photograph, while the Virginia Washington Monument can be seen at the right. The Capitol, designed largely by Thomas Jefferson and French architect Charles-Louis Clérisseau, was sufficiently complete by October 1792 for the Virginia General Assembly to meet within its walls. The building served as the capitol of the Confederacy during the Civil War. The Virginia Washington Monument, completed in 1869, features a 21-foot-tall statue of George Washington, mounted on a horse.

    Date: 7/21/1934

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 135

    Caption: "Rangers Home - Mount Royal Park," c. 1930. The Smith House, seen in this photograph surrounded by trees and a beautifully manicured flower garden, is a residence in Montreal's Mount Royal Park. Built in 1858 and purchased by the city when the ground was bought for the park's creation, the Smith House has been used for a variety of functions. It currently houses an interpretive center for the park as well as operating as the headquarters for Les amis de la montagne (The Friends of the Mountain), a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the environment of Mount Royal.

    Date: 1930

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 321b

    This warning sticker advertises "FIRE! Keep it away form our National Parks." The silhouette of a skeletal tree stretches bare branches toward the viewer.

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 022

    Caption: "C.P.R. Depot Vancouver B.C.," c. 1908-1912. View of the imposing, gothic chateau-like Vancouver Station, serving the Canadian Pacific Railway. Built in 1899, this station only stood until 1914, when it was replaced with a newer facility and subsequently demolished.

    Date: 1908

  • Correspondence on Exclusion

    Correspondence from Earl Warren (by Warren Olney) to Frank Morey Toothaker regarding oversight of any exclusion by the military alone

    Date: March 10, 1942

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 221

    Caption: "Empress Hotel, Victoria, B.C." c. 1935. Built between 1904 and 1908 (Francis Rattenbury, architect), in Beaux-Arts architectural style, the Empress Hotel is located in Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The luxury hotel was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1981.

    Date: 1935