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  • Prohibited Zones Military Area #2

    List of key locations in each prohibited zone by county

    Date: April 6, 1942

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 278

    Caption: "El Portal," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy poses with two unidentified people in front of the Hotel del Portal (or Del Portal Hotel) in El Portal, California. The resort hotel was constructed in 1908 by the Yosemite Terminal Company, a subsidiary of the Yosemite Valley Railroad Company, to provide accommodations for visitors to the park who arrived by train. The hotel burned to the ground in late October of 1917.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 241

    No Caption. William McCarthy posing for a photograph in front of a pine tree, c. 1908.

    Date: 1908

  • Photo 010

    Woman with baby gathered with others near parcels waiting for transportation

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 162

    Caption: "Don Gasper [sic] de Portola and Queen," 1909. Participants at the Portola Festival on horseback and dressed in period costume as Don Gaspar De Portola and Queen. The Portola Festival was a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 314

    Caption: "China Clipper -- Alameda Airport. Nov. 22, 1935." View of the China Clipper, a Martin M-130 four-engine flying boat constructed for Pan American Airways in 1935. One of the largest planes of its time, the China Clipper flew the first transpacific commercial airmail flight between San Francisco and Manila in the Philippines. The China Clipper was destroyed in a crash ten years later, in January 1945, at the Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

    Date: 11/22/1935

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 110

    Caption: "Power Plant of the Ford Factory - Detroit," c. 1925. View of the power house at Ford's Highland Park Plant (considered to be the birthplace of the industrial assembly line). The plant's five smoke stacks have a "FORD" sign across them, flanked by two water towers.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 121b

    No Caption: Commemorative U.S. two-cent postage stamp issued for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The stamp features a portrait of William H. Seward, U.S. Secretary of State (1861-1869), U.S. Senator (1849-1861), and twelfth governor of New York (1839-1842). Seward negotiated the purchase of the Alaskan territory from Russia in 1867.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 086

    Caption: "Botanical Garden - St. Louis," c. 1923. View of the Palm House, built in 1915 to house tropical plants in the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. It was torn down in 1959 to make room for the domed geodesic Climatron building which still stands at the site. See also 96-07-08-alb04-091.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 167

    Caption: "Circus Parade -- Santa Rosa, Calif.," c. 1905. This image shows several elephants walking down a street in Santa Rosa, part of the Ringling Brothers Circus, which first came to Santa Rosa in 1903. The traveling circus became an annual event in the town for the next two decades.

    Date: 1905