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  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 086

    Caption: "Power Transmission Tower. 2411 Towers - 270 Miles. 1.4 Inch DIA. Power Line. One of the Towers of the Power Line From Boulder Dam to L.A.," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • eichler_f3274_441_1

    Caption: "Screened Vestibule, Entrances to Main Dining Room." Design and drawing of Mess Hall, Veterans Home, Yountville, by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Veterans Affairs.

    Date: 1942

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 154

    Caption: "Bamboo Grows 12 to 16 Inches Per Day and 50 or 60 Feet High in 6 or 7 Weeks. Bamboo Propagating Farm, Burrows, Georgia. July 13, 1934." Grace McCarthy stands next to an automobile on the side of a road under trees. The other side of the road is flanked by rows of bamboo plants. This may be part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Savannah Plant Introduction Station, established in approximately 1919 in the Burroughs Station area southwest of Savannah. The station remained open until 1979, when it was closed by USDA budgetary downsizing. The property was subsequently deeded to the University of Georgia, in 1983.

    Date: 7/13/1934

  • "Summary of Understanding Between WRA, Federal Security Agency and the U. S. Children's Bureau as to Joint Responsibilities in the Handling of Dependent and Handicapped Persons in the States of Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona"

    Summary of the cooperation between various agencies in providing medical care; brief statement of policy

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 277

    No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy offering food to a bear sitting in a clearing.

    Date: 1935

  • eichler_f3274_056

    Caption: "New Prison for Segregation of San Quentin Prisoners. View Showing New Dormitory and Prison Yard with Relation to Existing Prison. Mt. Tamalpais in Background." Pen and ink drawing by Alfred Eichler, September 27, 1934, in response to request by Board of Prison Directors. Project for Department of Corrections.

    Date: 1934

  • "Social Implications of Mass Evacuation"

    Unrevised transcript of forum discussion regarding effect of relocation; Speakers: Carey McWilliams, Leonard Corwin, Raymond Booth, John Abrams

    Date: April 13, 1942

  • Military Areas

    Map of California indicating boundaries for military areas prepared from Proclamation No. 1, issued by Lt. General John L. DeWitt to the California Highway Patrol

    Date: Issued March 2, 1942

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph x006

    Caption: "Delaware & Hudson R.R. Exhibit. Chicago. Sept. 21, 1934. First Locomotive to Operate on an American Railroad, August 8, 1829." View of a replica of the Stourbridge Lion, the first steam locomotive to operate in the U.S., on lines built by the Delaware and Hudson Railway (formerly the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company). The replica was displayed at the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition, celebrating Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. This photograph was loose in the box with Album 11.

    Date: 9/21/1934

  • Memo on Evacuation of Los Angeles County

    Office Memorandum from Bernice G. Copland to Margaret S. Watkins regarding evacuation process in Los Angeles County; Sections: State Department of Social Welfare Staff; Housing Facilities of WCCA Stations; Clientele; Animals; Relief; Time Involved by Supervising Agents; Reports

    Date: May 9, 1942