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  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 018

    Caption: "Italian Refugee Hut S.F. -- 1906." Makeshift hut with four unidentified men standing in doorway. After the earthquake and fire that destroyed much of San Francisco in April 1906, hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. Many of these people established temporary refugee camps, using debris from the destruction to cobble together shelters.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 075

    Caption: "St. Francis Hotel," c. 1905. St. Francis Hotel at Union Square and the Dewey Monument in the foreground (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), which commemorated U.S. Admiral George Dewey's naval victory at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American War of 1898. The luxury hotel opened in 1904 and fortunately suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. It was expanded in 1913, and 1972, making it one of the largest hotels in the city.

    Date: 1905

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2131

    T.P. Parrott

    Date: 1892

  • Casamaria Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Casamaria boundaries. Volume 1, page 354.

    Date: 1831

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 200

    Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Office," c. 1915. William McCarthy began his career as an inspector of armaments for the U.S. War Department at the Benicia Arsenal in 1903. The arsenal was established in 1851 as the first Ordnance Supply Depot in the West, from which it supplied and supported U.S. troops from the Civil War through WWII and the Korean War. It was deactivated in 1963.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 307

    No Caption: An unidentified group of California Indian women and children standing in front of a wigwam covered in tree bark. A young child in front of the group is dressed in traditional clothing.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 260

    Caption: "Crater Lake - Arrow indicates Watchman Point," c. 1935. Located in the Crater Lake National Park, Crater Lake is a caldera lake formed about 7,700 years ago by the collapse of the volcano, Mount Mazama. Its 1,949 foot depth makes it the deepest lake in the United States.

    Date: 1935

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2445

    A Glimpse of the Midwinter Fair

    Date: 1894

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 162

    Caption: "La Laguna Espejada." Reflecting pool at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.

    Date: 1915

  • eichler_f3274_252

    Plan by Alfred Eichler for first floor of proposed Governor's Mansion. Not built. Project for Office of the Governor.

    Date: 1931