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  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 044

    Caption: "Lower Falls - Yellowstone," c. 1923. This photograph features the massive Lower Yellowstone Falls, as seen from the falls' base. A group of unidentified people standing to one side provides some sense of scale. As the Yellowstone River flows north from Yellowstone Lake it passes over two waterfalls (Upper and Lower Yellowstone Falls) before reaching the Yellowstone Grand Canyon. The 308-foot Lower Yellowstone Falls carries more water volume than any other waterfall in the Rocky Mountains.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 011

    Caption: "Battery Kinzie firing 'Trial Shots' Aug 1, 1912" and "No 10 Near Pt. Townsend, WA." Battery Kinzie was a coastal defense battery designed to include two 12-inch disappearing guns, installed at Fort Worden. Construction began in 1908. It was turned over to the U.S. Army's Coast Artillery Corps in 1912 for use in defending the entrance to Puget Sound. This postcard shows one of the 12-inch guns firing, with several unidentified men standing nearby holding their hands to their ears.

    Date: 8/1/1912

  • eichler_f3274_197_023

    Caption: "View of Science, Art & Library Buildings." Mesa Campus, Santa Barbara State College. Drawing by Alfred Eichler, c. 1932. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1932

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 054

    Caption: "Devil's Kitchen," c. 1923. This photograph shows several people descending into and standing around the entry to Devil's Kitchen, an extinct hot spring that left behind a cavern. Once a popular tourist attraction for its small opening that made visitors feel as if they were descending into the underworld, the site was closed in 1939 because the cavern periodically fills with dangerous levels of carbon dioxide.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 102

    Caption: "Coast Defense: 14 Inch Disappearing Gun." Another copy of a C.D. Heath photograph, this image shows a heavy artillery gun, with two unidentified men standing next to it, at the Sandy Hook Proving Ground. Located at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, the Sandy Hook Proving Ground was used by the U.S. Army to test ordinance and materiel from 1874-1919. See also 96-07-08-alb05-101.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 119

    Caption: "Tiajuana [sic] Mexico," c. 1915-1916. William (sporting a serape and wide-brimmed hat) and Grace McCarthy, with two unidentified individuals, with their automobile in Tijuana, Mexico.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 276

    Caption: "Foot Bridge," c. 1917. A pedestrian bridge spans the Merced River as it tumbles over and through chunks of granite and rock in Yosemite National Park.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 118

    Caption: "Want to get in," c. 1906, shows a small black dog, wearing a ribbon and bow around its neck, and leaning against a door.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 216

    Caption: "Totem Pole -- Seattle, Wash.," c. 1915. View of the Tlingit totem pole in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The totem pole was stolen in 1899 by a group of businessmen, and erected in the square, then known as Pioneer Place. An arson destroyed this pole in 1938, but it was later replaced by another carved by the Tlingit tribe (who were also finally paid for the original pole).

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 098

    Caption: "Seattle totem pole.," c. 1905. View of the Tlingit totem pole in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The totem pole was stolen in 1899 by a group of businessmen, and erected in the square, then known as Pioneer Place. An arson destroyed this pole in 1938, but it was later replaced by another carved by the Tlingit tribe (who were also finally paid for the original pole).

    Date: 1905