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  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 205

    Caption: "Del Monte," c. 1920. Five unidentified women standing in front of a palm tree on the grounds of the Hotel Del Monte. The photograph shows the second of three hotels built on the site, near Monterey, California (this building was destroyed by fire in 1924). The property surrounding the hotel became known as Pebble Beach.

    Date: 1920

  • eichler_f3274_283_2

    Caption: "Yard Shelter, Addition to Custodial Bldg. Mendocino, Ward 12." Design and drawing of addition to Custodial Building, Mendocino State Hospital, by Alfred Eichler. The addition added several custodial features, such as a cell block. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals.

    Date: undated

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 269

    Caption: "The Village," c. 1917. Street scene in the Yosemite Village, the most developed part of the Yosemite Valley. The Village is home to such amenities as a Post Office, store, medical clinic, fire station, and restaurants. Development began at the site in 1865, but most of the buildings were constructed after 1918.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 167

    Caption: The Awful Fire After the Shake," 1906. A view of San Francisco ablaze after the 1906 earthquake. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.

    Date: 1906

  • 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 09, Photograph 153

    Caption: "Central Park Scene N.Y.," c. 1925. New York City's Central Park, established in 1857, was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and landscape designer and architect Calvert Vaux. This photograph shows one of the water features within the park, crossed by a pedestrian bridge.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 015

    No Caption: The Capitol building in Sacramento, California, c. 1910. Located on the west end of Capitol Park, the neoclassical building's construction began in 1860 and was completed in 1874. It houses the state legislature and offices of the governor. The capitol and grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and as a California Historical Landmark in 1974.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 324a

    No caption. Commemorative stamp celebrating the upcoming Golden Gate International Exposition, c. 1938. The Exposition, which ran from February through October in 1939 and May to September in 1940, celebrated the completion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (1936) and the Golden Gate Bridge (1937). More than ten million people attended in 1939, while an additional five million visited in 1940. The Exposition was held on an artificial island created by dredging more than 19 million cubic yards of material from the bottom of the bay. The federal government completed this dredging and fill, intending for the site, called Treasure Island, to become a municipal airport after the exposition. However, the advent of World War II resulted in the U.S. Navy taking over the site, holding it until for military purposes until 1997.

    Date: 1938

  • eichler_f3274_295

    Caption: "Preliminary Sketch Superintendent's Residence - Pacific Colony." The residence was built to a later design. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals. The hospital was initially named Pacific Colony (1927-1953), followed by Pacific State Hospital (1953-1979); Frank D. Lanterman State Hospital and Developmental Center; and finally Lanterman Developmental Center, which closed in 2015.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 121b

    No Caption: Commemorative U.S. two-cent postage stamp issued for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The stamp features a portrait of William H. Seward, U.S. Secretary of State (1861-1869), U.S. Senator (1849-1861), and twelfth governor of New York (1839-1842). Seward negotiated the purchase of the Alaskan territory from Russia in 1867.

    Date: 1909