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  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 244

    Caption: "Russian River," c. 1920. Group of unidentified people in swimsuits on riverbank. William McCarthy is kneeling in the front row, second from the right, while Grace appears in the third row, second from the right.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 251

    Caption: "Niagara Falls. Sept. 10, 1934." View of Horseshoe Falls, largest of the three waterfalls that make up the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.

    Date: 9/10/1934

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 173

    No Caption: Caption in photograph album (172.0): "City Hall Tower Before and after the Quake." 1906. A view of San Francisco City Hall after the April 18, 1906 earthquake shows the devastation to the structure.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 013

    Caption: "Old Faithful Inn - Yellowstone," c. 1923. View of the massive Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park. Designed by Robert C. Reamer and completed in 1904, the hotel is one of the largest log buildings in the world.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 157a

    No Caption: Pink ribbon commemorating Agricultural Days at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition (September 28 and 29, 1905). Held in Portland, Oregon, from June 1st to October 15th, 1905, the international exposition 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: 9/28/1905

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 320a

    No caption. Obverse of a souvenir ticket for the "Official Pedestrian Day" on May 27, 1937, held as part of the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta celebrating the opening of the now-iconic bridge. The celebrations occupied an entire week, kicked off by Pedestrian Day, when more 200,000 people were allowed to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge on foot or on roller skates, the day before the bridge opened for vehicular traffic.

    Date: 5/27/1937

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 123

    No Caption: View of the Government Building, neighboring buildings, and Geyser Basin at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Held in Seattle to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest, the fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Although most of the fair's buildings have since been destroyed, several of them now serve as part of the University of Washington campus. For instance, Geyser Basin became Drumheller Fountain, now at a slightly different location.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 119

    No caption, c. 1920. Scene along the Sacramento River, showing some houses on the bank and two small rowboats.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 287

    No caption, c. 1910. View of the California State Capitol Building. Trees obscure much of the building.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 164

    Caption: "Australia," shows the Australian Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-137.

    Date: 1915