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No Caption: c. 1906. Grace McCarthy posing with an unidentified woman, possibly at a photography studio.

Date: 1906

No Caption: View of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at dusk, with pathways defined by globe lights. The Government Building can be seen in the center of the photograph. 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.

Date: 1909

Caption: "Congress Springs.," c. 1910. Grace McCarthy seated on an unusual bench made from a tree branch and logs, in front of a timber shelter at Pacific Congress Springs near Saratoga in California's Santa Clara Valley. Pacific Congress Springs, a mineral spring named after Congress Springs in New York, operated as a resort area from the nineteenth century until the 1930s.

Date: 1910

Caption: "Motor Railroad Car.," c. 1905-1909. Shows a trolley car or railcar labeled "U.S. Mail 333."

Date: 1905

Caption: "Kingsbury Grade -- Nevada." Shows a hairpin turn on the Kingsbury Grade in Douglas County, Nevada. Now part of Nevada State Route 207, the road intersects U.S. Highway 50 near the southeastern corner of Lake Tahoe.

Date: 1927

Caption: "Mitchell Point Tunnel - Columbia River Drive, Oregon," c. 1935.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Bobs Service Station - Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles," c. 1935, shows Bob Spencer's Mobil gas service station, which was built around a grounded Fokker F32, whose wings served as a canopy for the fueling stations.

Date: 1935

Caption: "The Battery, Lower Manhattan, New York, N.Y [sic], Aug. 4, 1934." This photograph shows the Manhattan skyline, as well as the Battery, a 25-acre park at the tip of Manhattan Island. The park was named for the artillery batteries that used to protect the city and its harbor from this location.

Date: 8/4/1934

Caption: "Obregon's tomb, Mexico City." William and Grace McCarthy standing before the monument to General Alvaro Obregon (1880-1928), who was a leader of the Mexican Revolution (1920-1920). Obregon was elected President of post-Revolution Mexico, serving from 1920-1924. In 1928, he was again elected but was assassinated by Jose de Leon Toral, a Roman Catholic who opposed Obregon's policies on religious matters. The monument was completed in 1935 and stands in the San Angel region of Mexico City, in the same location where Obregon was assassinated.

Date: 1938

No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing Teotihuacan, an area northeast of Mexico City and famous for some of the most important archaeological discoveries on the North American Continent.

Date: 1938