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  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 287

    Caption: "Fallen Giant - Mariposa Grove," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy poses with two unidentified people next to the Fallen Monarch, the enormous trunk of a fallen Giant Sequoia in Maripose Grove. It is estimated that the tree fell more than 300 years ago, but the natural resistance of Giant Sequoias to rot has preserved the trunk to the present time.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 182

    Caption: "San Francisco April 17, 1906. Center of Town." Bird's eye view of the center of San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Call Building (built in the 1890s to house the San Francisco Call newspaper) is the tallest building in the photograph, just to the right of center. See also 96-07-08-alb02-026.

    Date: 4/17/1906

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0505

    Far West

    Date: 1879

  • Memo on Alien Land Laws

    Memorandum from Mr. Henderson to Mr. Mattoon regarding California Tree Fruit Agreement, Grower Exemption Certificate and Alien Land Law violations; attached list of Japanese growers

    Date: February 10, 1942

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 117

    Caption: "Capitol Building -- Havana -- Cuba. July 4, 1934." The building seen in this photograph, reminiscent of the U.S. Capitol, served as Cuba's Capitol from its completion in 1929 until after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Designed by Eugenio Rayneri Piedra, the building now houses the Cuban Academy of Sciences.

    Date: 7/4/1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 097

    Caption: "Miami Fla. Miami Beach in the Distance. Taken from City Hall Tower, June 30, 1934." Bird's eye view of Miami, with the ocean in the distance. This photograph was likely taken from atop the Miami-Dade Courthouse rather than City Hall.

    Date: 6/30/1934

  • Original Bill File, House Resolution 245, page 1

    This item has no description.

    Date: 1963

  • President Lyndon B. Johnson handing a signing pen to Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the signing ceremony for the Voting Rights Act

    This item has no description.

    Date: 1965

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0301

    Golden

    Date: 1875

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 089

    Caption: "London Guarantee & Wrigley Bldg. Chicago," c. 1923. This photograph, taken at street level, features the London Guarantee Building (with the small cupola still under construction at its top) and the Wrigley Building (just to the right of the London Guarantee Building). The London Guarantee Building (also called the London Guaranty and Accident Building), designed by Alfred S. Alschuler, was completed in 1923. The Wrigley Building, constructed by the famous chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr., consists of two towers. The south tower was completed in 1921, while the north tower was finished in 1924 (you can make out construction scaffolding on the top of the tower in this photograph).

    Date: 1923