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  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 160

    Caption: "Government exhibits of navy guns, Government Building." Shows a variety of naval weaponry. The exhibit was located in the Government Building of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. The 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: 1905

  • Correspondence on Request for Inspection

    Correspondence from Genevieve W. Carter to Helen Heffernan regarding inspection of Manzanar

    Date: June 29, 1943

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 165

    Caption: "Glacier National Park Hotel," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 128

    Caption: "Tomb of President Gomez, Havana. July 4th 1934." José Miguel Gómez y Gómez was instrumental in the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898), and also served as Cuba's President from 1909-1913. Although he died in New York, his remains were interred in the Colon Cemetery in Havana.

    Date: 7/4/1934

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 359a

    No Caption: A "Mexico by Motor" decal, c. 1938, rectangular, in yellow and purple.

    Date: 1938

  • eichler_f3274_088_016

    Caption: "School for Deaf Berkeley. Clocktower - Admin. Bldg." Design and color drawing by Alfred Eichler, 1944; built in 1946. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1944

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 133

    Caption: "The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. July 8, 1934." The imposing resort hotel shown in this photograph was originally called the Palm Beach Inn when it opened in 1896. The original hotel burned down in 1903, reopened in 1904, and burned again in 1925. After the 1925 fire, the building's owners abandoned wood frame construction in favor of concrete. The new hotel building, as shown in this photograph, was reopened in December 1926.

    Date: 7/8/1934

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 251

    Caption: "Big Basin," c. 1935. William and Grace McCarthy posing in front of large redwood tree in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz County. The tree is likely "Animal Tree," given the large burl growths.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 236

    Caption: "George Washington Bridge, Crossing the Hudson River, N.Y. Sept. 3, 1934." This suspension bridge, designed by Othmar Ammann, spans the Hudson River between Manhattan in New York City, and Fort Lee, New Jersey. Constructed between 1927 and 1931, the bridge included the longest main span in the world at the time, a record it held until construction of the Golden Gate Bridge was completed in 1937. It was originally built with only one deck (as seen in this photograph), but a second deck opened in 1962. Still in active use today, it carried over 51 million vehicles in 2016.

    Date: 9/3/1934

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 128

    No Caption: View of the California Building 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. See also 96-07-08-alb05-214.

    Date: 1909