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Caption: "City Hall - Detroit," c. 1925. Grace McCarthy poses in front of Detroit's City Hall. The Italian Renaissance Revival-style building, designed by architect James Anderson, was constructed between 1867 and 1871. It housed Detroit's city government until 1955, when a new facility was ready for occupation. This building was subsequently demolished in 1961.

Date: 1925

Caption: "Pleasant Beach, Wash.," c. 1908-1912. View from across a bay in Puget Sound, looking toward the Pleasant Beach Hotel. Built before the turn of the twentieth century, this resort hotel featured forty rooms, a bowling alley, billiards room, swimming pool, and a pavilion. The resort came to be known as the "Coney Island" of Puget Sound.

Date: 1908

Clear Lake String Beans

Date: 1898

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Date: 1962

Caption: "Fotos in San Francisco and Neighboring County's [sic] By Wm. McCarthy." A handwritten label mounted on the first page of the photograph album.

Date: Undated

Caption: "Cliff House." People standing on Ocean Beach watching the third Cliff House burning in San Francisco, in 1907. The original Cliff House was built in 1858. The second was built in 1863 and was destroyed by fire on Christmas day in 1894. The third Victorian- style Cliff House was completed in 1896, and although it survived the 1906 earthquake and fires, it burned to the ground in 1907, as seen in this image. A fourth Cliff House was then built with steel-reinforced concrete and opened in 1909.

Date: 1907

Caption: "Grinnell Glacier - A solid mountain of ice and snow. A close up view of the Garden Wall, Glacier National Park," c. 1935.

Date: 1935

Selene, Hygienic

Date: 1865

Carnation Cream

Date: 1887

Caption: "On Grinnell Glacier. The solid mountain of ice and snow - Glacier Park," c. 1935, shows William McCarthy standing on Grinnell Glacier.

Date: 1935