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  • Old Series Trademark No. 0071

    Electro Silicon

    Date: 1867

  • Memorial to Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo, page 2

    This item has no description.

    Date: 2010

  • "Report on Resettlement Assistance"

    Report on resettlement by county by Bertha S. Underhill

    Date: November 29, 1945

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 192

    Caption: "George Washington Monument, Washington, D.C. July 29, 1934." The obelisk of the Washington Monument rises above the Reflecting Pool on National Mall in Washington, D.C. Built between 1848 and 1888 to commemorate George Washington (former Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and first President of the United States), the obelisk is the world's tallest stone structure at a height of 555 feet.

    Date: 7/29/1934

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 164

    Caption: "Portola Celebration." 1909. The Portola Festival was a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 016

    Caption: "Balboa Park, San Diego, Calif. May 19, 1934." View of an artificial lagoon in San Diego's Balboa Park, with the Panama-California Exposition's Commerce and Industries Building (tower at left, now called Casa de Balboa) and the Foreign Arts Building (tower at right, now called the House of Hospitality).

    Date: 5/19/1934

  • eichler_f3274_453_2

    Design and drawing of California State Building for Nevada Highways Exposition in Reno, Nevada, by Alfred Eichler, c. 1926; from packet of designs and plans by Eichler for the Transcontinental Highways Exposition of 1927. Built. Initial appropriation of $100,000 was reduced to $50,000, so only one half of the plan was built. The tower was eliminated.

    Date: 1926

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 047

    Caption: "Mississippi River Ferry -- New Orleans, June 14, 34." A ferry owned by the Bisso family carrying automobiles and their owners across the Mississippi River near New Orleans. Ferries were extremely important to commerce and other activities along the Mississippi River before the construction of bridges capable of carrying automobile traffic.

    Date: 6/14/1934

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 235

    Caption: "O.W.R. & N. R.R. Depot -- Seattle.," c. 1915. Station building for the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company, formed in 1910 from the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company as a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad. Designed by architect Daniel J. Patterson, the Beaux Arts-style station opened in 1911.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 170

    Caption: "San Francisco April 18 1906." A view of the city of San Francisco ablaze after the 1906 earthquake. 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