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  • Old Series Trademark No. 1463b

    Crystal

    Date: 1886

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 202

    Caption: "Tent City Coronado," c. 1910-1913. View of rows of tents and sheds thatched in palm fronds along the coast near Coronado Hotel, with people strolling along the roadways. Established in 1900 for travelers who could not afford to stay in the resort hotel, the Coronado Tent City consisted of a grid of streets lined with furnished tents, near the sea shore. It also featured restaurants, a library, soda fountain, theater, bandstand, and other recreational facilities. See also 96-07-08-alb08-210, and 263.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 007

    Caption: "Saint Francis Hotel." See also 96-07-08-alb01-002, with caption: "Hotel-Saint Francis," c. 1913. St. Francis Hotel at Union Square with partial north wing extension and the Dewey Monument in the foreground (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), which commemorated U.S. Admiral George Dewey's naval victory at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American War of 1898. The luxury hotel opened in 1904 and, fortunately, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. It was expanded in 1913, and 1972, making it one of the largest hotels in the city.

    Date: 1913

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 192

    No Caption: c. 1910. Ocean shore scene with waves and high spray. The Vue de L'eau (View of the Water) was a station on the Santa Cruz, Garfield Park and Capitola Electric Railway electric streetcar line. Built in 1891, the station was located at the very end of the line, on a promontory overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It featured an observatory on the top story. The same company also built a casino, ballroom, and restaurant nearby. The station burned down in 1925. See also 96-07-08-alb05-074.

    Date: 1910

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1398

    Peacock Brand

    Date: 1886

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0761

    Golden State

    Date: 1881

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 089

    Caption: "Fountain - Rising Sun" (Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor), in the Court of the Universe, at the Panama- Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0292

    Dr. Lepper's Electric Oil of Gladness

    Date: 1875

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 265

    Caption: "Driveway Through the Dead Giant - Tuolumne Grove - Yosemite," c. 1917. Grace (next to automobile) and William (far right) McCarthy pose with their vehicle and an unidentified woman in the tunnel of "The Dead Giant," the remains of a giant sequoia in the Tuolumne Grove. The tunnel was cut into the trunk in 1878.

    Date: 1917

  • eichler_f3274_227

    Color rendering of exhibit building, State Fair, Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, by Alfred Eichler. One of two steel-frame tilt-up precast concrete wall buildings along main entrance from Stockton Blvd. Design by Alfred Eichler and V. I. Osborn. Built. Project for Department of Finance - Fairs and Expositions.

    Date: 1952