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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 159

    No Caption: The photograph has a hand-written inscription stating: "Portola Electric Bell Copyright 1909 Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 800." Installed on the intersection of Third and Market Streets in San Francisco, the Portola Electric Bell contained two thousand bulbs and rose 125 feet above the street. It was part of the Portola Festival of 1909, 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

  • San Lucas Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of San Lucas boundaries. Volume 2, page 69.

    Date: 1841

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 303

    Caption: "State St. Salt Lake City. Capitol Bldg. in the Distance, Oct. 4, 1934." Street scene, with a wide road stretching toward the Utah State Capitol Building in the distance. Trolley tracks appear on the roadway, with wires overhead.

    Date: 10/4/1934

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 114

    Caption: "Ferry Boat Tacoma on the Columbia River.," c. 1905. View of the railroad ferry Tacoma, with a train on board. The Tacoma operated from 1884 until 1908, when a railroad bridge was constructed across the Columbia connecting Portland, Oregon with points north of the river.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 225

    Caption: "S.P. & S. Tunnel on the Columbia River.," c. 1908-1910. Shows a tunnel through a hillside along the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway line near the Columbia River and John Day River.

    Date: 1908

  • eichler_f3274_408

    Caption: "Award - Am. Inst. Steel Construction." Architectural form of steel bridge on Redwood Highway; drawing by Alfred Eichler. Award Winner, American Institute of Steel Construction. Constructed for beauty of design. Built. Project for Department of Public Works - Highways - Bridge Department.

    Date: 1933

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 086

    Caption: "Power Transmission Tower. 2411 Towers - 270 Miles. 1.4 Inch DIA. Power Line. One of the Towers of the Power Line From Boulder Dam to L.A.," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 175

    Caption: "General View - Panama Pacific International Exposition."

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 074

    Caption: "Williams Canion [sic] - Cave of the Winds," c. 1923. View of a rugged canyon with a small building perched on one wall featuring a sign reading "CAVE." In 1880, two brothers, George and John Pickett, discovered the entrance to a large cave system in Williams Canyon. Further exploration resulted in opening more caverns within the system. The site became a tourist attraction called "Cave of the Winds," with guided tours having been on offer since 1881.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 312

    Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Office," c. 1915. 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: 1915