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  • eichler_f3274_115_001

    Pencil drawing of Fresno State College by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: undated

  • eichler_f3274_017

    Caption: "Detail of Tower." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1930. This was one of the first border stations and was situated in desert country; its purpose was to provide a stopping place for inspection of motor traffic coming into California in order to enforce quarantine against insect infestation of California agricultural products. Project for Department of Agriculture.

    Date: 1930

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 321

    Caption: "#2 -- Record Oct 25, 09." This postcard shows plume of seawater thrown up by a mortar shell during target practice at Fort Point. The facilities at Fort Point were part of an effort by the U.S. government to protect the Golden Gate, entrance to the San Francisco Bay. Built between 1853-1861, the fort included emplacements for 141 guns but never fired a weapon in defense of the Bay. Its name was officially changed in 1882 to Fort Winfield Scott. This only lasted four years, however, for in 1886 the fort was officially downgraded to a sub-post of the San Francisco Presidio and the name discontinued. It was resurrected in 1912, however, with the establishment of a coastal artillery fortification at the Presidio, called, once again, Fort Winfield Scott.

    Date: 1909-10-25

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 213

    Caption: "The Bennington." View of the USS Bennington, a U.S. Navy gunboat, Yorktown class, launched in 1890. She had tours of duty in South America, the Mediterranean, North and Central America, Hawaii, and the Philippines. On July 21, 1905, while in San Diego Harbor, the Bennington's boiler exploded, killing sixty-six men and injuring many more. This photograph appears to have been taken after the explosion.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 239

    Caption: "San Jose Court House Damaged by the Quake," c. 1906. A view of the San Jose Courthouse (left), and Hall of Records, which sustained some damage seen along the roofline, as a result of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 216

    Caption: "Venice," c. 1915, shows the site of Villa City Boating, where visitors to the resort seaside village of Venice could purchase gondola rides on the canals to visit the town. The seaside resort was founded by tobacco millionaire, Abbot Kinney in 1905, and designed to be like the namesake Italian city.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 222

    Caption: "Entering The Redwoods, Mt Tamalpais RR," c. 1907. A view of the Muir Woods Railway tracks, established in 1896 as a scenic tourist railway between Mill Valley and the east peak of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County.

    Date: 1907

  • eichler_f3274_153k

    Early study of San Francisco State College by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: undated

  • eichler_f3274_197_010

    Drawing of South Elevation, Santa Barbara State College, by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: undated

  • eichler_f3274_197_9

    Drawing of Sciences Building, Santa Barbara State College, by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: undated