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  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 287

    No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy standing at the doorway of a snowed-in cabin in Yosemite National Park.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 017

    Caption: "Coronado Hotel, May 20, 1934." View of the Coronado Hotel, with sand dunes in the foreground. At the time it opened in 1888, this hotel was the largest beach resort in the world. The Ballroom Tower, the highest point of the building, is 120 feet tall.

    Date: 5/20/1934

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 095

    Caption: "City Hall Ruins," shows the gutted San Francisco City Hall after the 1906 earthquake and fires. 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

  • "The Japanese American Creed"

    Statement written by Mike Masaoka and read before United States Senate; attachment included in Correspondence from JACL (F3729_56_005a-F3729_56_005c)

    Date: May 9, 1941

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 183

    Caption: "San Francisco April 18, 1906. Center of Town. The Awful Fire after the Shake." Fire engulfing buildings in San Francisco's city center after the 1906 earthquake. Great plumes of smoke dominate the photograph. See also 96-07-08-alb02-025.

    Date: 4/18/1906

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0445

    Pure Java Coffee

    Date: 1878

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 023

    Caption: "Alcatraz," c. 1906. View of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. The building on the highest part of the island, just to the left of center in the photograph, is the Alcatraz Citadel (also known as Fort Alcatraz). Built in 1859 by the U.S. Army for coastal defense purposes, the Citadel began serving as a prison in 1861. It ceased function as a defense fortification and became the Pacific Branch of the U.S. Military Prison in 1907. The Citadel was demolished in 1909. Over the next two decades the facilities on the island were modified and modernized, becoming a federal penitentiary in 1934.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 106

    Caption: "The Arescope [sic] P.P.I.E." at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, was designed by Joseph Strauss, who later was the chief engineer for San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

    Date: 1915

  • Key Positions

    Map of San Francisco Bay indicating positions of key locations in the vicinity' Prepared by San Francisco District U. S. Coast Guard

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 041

    No Caption: c. 1910. Unidentified young girl posing with chicken, likely somewhere in Washington.

    Date: 1910