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  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 237

    Caption: "250th C.A.N.G. at Glenwood," c. 1926. The California National Guard established its 250th Coast Artillery in 1926, in Santa Cruz County. This photograph shows several caterpillar-type vehicles alongside a rural road near Glenwood.

    Date: 1926

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 022

    Caption: "The Casino -- Agua Caliente, Mexico -- May 20, 34." View of the exterior of the casino at Agua Caliente Casino and Resort. Designed by Wayne McAllister, the resort opened in Tijuana in 1928. It closed only a few years later, in 1935, when Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas outlawed gambling.

    Date: 5/20/1934

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 112

    Caption: "California St. S.F." Shows the devastation from the 1906 earthquake and fires, along California Street in San Francisco, 1906.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 058

    Caption: "Union Square & Dewey Monument," c. 1908. St. Francis Hotel at Union Square, with 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: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 316

    Caption: "Yosemite Falls - View From Ledge Trail," c. 1917. Yosemite Falls in the distance, as seen from across the valley on the Ledge Trail above Half Dome Village. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 004

    Caption: "Work of Mounting Big Guns, Point Benito [sic]," c. 1906. This may actually be Point Bonita in the San Francisco Bay.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 200

    Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Entrance," c. 1915. View of the gateway to Benicia Arsenal, where William McCarthy worked (starting in 1903). Established in 1851, the Benicia Arsenal was the primary ordnance facility of the U.S. Army on the West Coast. The facility was deactivated in 1963, and closed completely the following year. The area now serves a vastly different function, providing work and retail space for artists and artisans.

    Date: 1915

  • "Salvation Army Children's Home, Japanese Division"

    Summary of discussion regarding the need for a comprehensive written plan for evacuation, including plan for equipment and staffing

    Date: March 20, 1942

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 134

    Caption: "Blue Lakes," c. 1920. Lake with rolling hills/mountains in the distance.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 080

    Caption: "One of the Main Barracks, March Field, Calif.," c. 1935. Today known as March Air Reserve Base, March Field was one of several airfields established in April 1917, just after the United State's entry in World War 1. The airfield was named for Peyton C. March Jr., son of then Army Chief of Staff, Peyton C. March, who had been killed in an air crash just fifteen days after being commissioned.

    Date: 1935