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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 291a

    No caption. An undated and unidentified newspaper article titled, "What Ships Make Up the Armada in the Harbor." c.1908. The article describes the forty-three battleships, cruisers, torpedo boats, torpedo boat destroyers, and auxiliary ships in the San Francisco Bay under the Flag of Rear Admiral Evans.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 326

    Caption: "San Francisco Bay Bridge Under Construction. Nov. 1, 1935." View of the towers and suspension cables of the western half of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, spanning the distance between Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay to the City of San Francisco. The bridge deck has not yet been completed. The Bay Bridge's design combined three different types of bridge-building technology over the five miles it covers between San Francisco and Oakland: a suspension span, a cantilevered span, and a tunnel. At the time of its completion in 1936, the bridge was the longest steel structure on the globe. It also featured the deepest bridge pier ever built, and the world's largest bore tunnel.

    Date: 11/1/1935

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 164

    Caption: "Forrestry [sic] Building, Portland Exposition." View of the Forestry Building of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. Constructed of approximately one million board feet of lumber, including dozens of unpeeled, old-growth tree trunks, the building was purchased by the City of Portland after the Exposition. The building was later destroyed by fire, in 1964. The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition was held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.

    Date: 1905

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0216

    Old Style Pure Hand Made Bourbon Whiskey

    Date: 1871

  • Report No. 5; Title taken from first page of report

    Excerpt from report by the State and County Coordinating Committee on Remployment; Data on number of Japanese workers employed in March 1940 by county, distributed by industry

    Date: July 6, 1942; Date taken from first page of report

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1554

    Scott Brothers Pure Extracts

    Date: 1887

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0548

    Golden Gate Packing Company

    Date: 1879

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2442

    Francis Wilson

    Date: 1894

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1686

    California Canning Co.

    Date: 1889

  • Japanese Now Working for State

    List of state employees of Japanese descent, including class, department, and location

    Date: April 2, 1942