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  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 427

    Caption: "Xochimilco - Floating Gardens - the Mexican Venice."

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 184

    Caption: "The Fire Down Town." Fire engulfing buildings in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. Smoke plumes fill half of the photograph.

    Date: 4/18/1906

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2107

    Ginger Ale

    Date: 1892

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 150

    Caption: "The Woolworth Towering Above All Others," c. 1925. Constructed between 1910 and 1920 and designed by architect Cass Gilbert, the Neo-Gothic building was once the tallest in the world at 792 feet. It appears at the left side of this photograph.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 013

    Caption: "Tower of Jewels," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The Panama Pacific International Exposition was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, as well as inventive technologies and new industries from around the world. It was also a chance for San Francisco to show the world how the great city had rebuilt and thrived after the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 056

    Caption: "Santa Rosa Court House.," c. 1914. Built in 1910, this building replaced the original Sonoma County courthouse that was destroyed by the great earthquake and fire that ravaged the San Francisco Bay Area in 1906. This second courthouse served the county for more than fifty years before being declared seismically unsafe in the 1960s. It was subsequently torn down, but the area still retains the name "Old Courthouse Square."

    Date: 1914

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 286

    Caption: "USS Connecticut, Admiral Evans," c. 1908. View of the USS Connecticut, with an inset circular photograph of Admiral Evans. The USS Connecticut was commissioned on September 29, 1906 as the most advanced ship in the U.S. Navy. Because the provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 stipulated that older battleships would be disposed of, the Connecticut was decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1923.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 141

    Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Gate," 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

  • 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

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 184

    Caption: "In the Banff Springs Hotel Grounds, Banff, Canada," c. 1935, shows William and Grace McCarthy sitting near a fountain on the grounds of the hotel.

    Date: 1935