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  • Santa Rosa Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Santa Rosa boundaries. Volume 1, page 394.

    Date: 1836

  • Pescadero or Punta del Cipreses Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Pescadero or Punta del Cipreses boundaries. Volume1, page 368.

    Date: 1836

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 143

    Caption: "Monte Rio.," c. 1906. Grace McCarthy standing on beach at Monte Rio, with parasol. Monte Rio, north of San Francisco in Sonoma County, became a resort area in the early twentieth century, after the sawmills providing the area's primary industry closed down.

    Date: 1906

  • eichler_f3274_009

    Caption: "State of California - Department of Agriculture Border Inspection Station - Dorris." Design by Earl W. Hampton; drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1936. Project for Department of Agriculture.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 132

    Caption: "St. Josephs Oratore [sic] - Montreal," c. 1925. William and Grace McCarthy pose in front of a bronze statue of St. Joseph placed at the base of the hill upon which St. Joseph's Oratory is under construction. The statue, created by Alfred Laliberté, was erected in 1923.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 160

    Caption: "Slave Dwellings at the Old Hermitage, Savannah, Ga. July 15, 1934." A row of small brick houses surrounded by trees. The Old Hermitage was a 400-acre plantation on the Savannah River, owned by Henry McAlpin. McAlpin not only conducted farming operations at the plantation, but also manufactured bricks, barrels, cast iron products, and lumber. For that reason, he built the slave quarters for the plantation from brick, rather than wood as was common for most other plantations in the South.

    Date: 7/15/1934

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 074

    No Caption: California Building at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 148

    Caption: "East River & Brooklyn Bridge N.Y," c. 1925. Three boats on the East River passing beneath the Manhattan Bridge. The photograph was taken from the Brooklyn Bridge (which is not seen in the photo). See also 96-07-08-alb09-199.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 142

    Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Avenue," c. 1905, Benicia, California. William McCarthy began his career as an inspector of armaments for the U.S. War Department at the Benicia Arsenal in 1903. The arsenal was established in 1851 as the first Ordnance Supply Depot in the West, from which it supplied and supported U.S. troops, from the Civil War through WWII and the Korean War. It was deactivated in 1963.

    Date: 1905

  • Ausaymas y San Felipe Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Ausaymas y San Felipe boundaries. Volume 1, page 362.

    Date: 1833