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  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 263

    Caption: "Feather River Canyon," c. 1915, shows the Feather River Canyon trestle.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 283

    Caption: "Street Scene -- Los Angeles," c. 1910. Street-level view of an unidentified busy street in Los Angeles.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 148

    Caption: "Ordnance Corps," c. 1905. A group photograph of the Ordnance Corps at the Benicia Arsenal. The broad mission of the Ordnance Corps was to supply combat weapons and ammunition to U.S. Army forces on the west coast of the United States.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 081

    Caption: "Stockton Asylum." Stockton, California, c. 1906. The Stockton Insane Asylum was established in 1851, completed in 1853, and was the first public mental health hospital in California. It remained a functioning state hospital until 1995.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 128

    Caption: "Picnic at Fishcamp," c. 1908, shows William McCarthy (third from right) with unidentified people posing for a photograph at Fishcamp in Mariposa County.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 303

    Caption: "Chino Calif.," c. 1915. Unidentified child pulling another unidentified, smaller child in a wagon in front of a Craftsman-style residence.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 090

    Caption: "Refugee Hut," shows four people standing in the doorway of a hut built after the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906. 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

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 167

    No caption: Grace McCarthy (far left) poses with four unidentified women in front of a small body of water, c. 1925.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 324a

    No caption. Commemorative stamp celebrating the upcoming Golden Gate International Exposition, c. 1938. The Exposition, which ran from February through October in 1939 and May to September in 1940, celebrated the completion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (1936) and the Golden Gate Bridge (1937). More than ten million people attended in 1939, while an additional five million visited in 1940. The Exposition was held on an artificial island created by dredging more than 19 million cubic yards of material from the bottom of the bay. The federal government completed this dredging and fill, intending for the site, called Treasure Island, to become a municipal airport after the exposition. However, the advent of World War II resulted in the U.S. Navy taking over the site, holding it until for military purposes until 1997.

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 360

    Caption: "Our Motor Tour to Mexico City March 26th to June 8th 1938. Total Mileage 5,500, Grace & Will McCarthy. Highway indicated by Blue Line," written on a map of Mexico, with a photograph of William and Grace McCarthy next to a large sign detailing their tour of Mexico as described above.

    Date: 1938