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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 106

    Caption: "Hialeah Race Track -- Miami -- Florida July 1, 1934." View of the infield at Hialeah Park Race Track. Constructed in 1922 as a greyhound racetrack, Hialeah began hosting horse races in 1925. Joseph E. Widener purchased the track in 1930. He embarked upon a series of improvements, adding a grandstand (seen here) and clubhouse facilities designed by Lester W. Geisler, as well as landscaped gardens and a lake in the infield that became home to a flock of flamingos. The new and improved Hialeah track, now called Hialeah Park, officially opened in 1932.

    Date: 7/1/1934

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 191

    Caption: "Victoria Glaciers at Lake Louise - Canada," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 173

    Caption: "Lake Josephine-Glacier National Park," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • San Jose Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of San Jose boundaries. Volume 1, page 336.

    Date: 1837

  • Old Series Trademark No. 3113

    Dawson's Perfection Old Scotch Whiskey

    Date: 1897

  • City of Hawthorne Response to Correspondence on Law Enforcement

    Correspondence from M. R. Baumgardner to Earl Warren regarding views on law enforcement problems involving enemy aliens

    Date: February 19, 1942

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1807

    Big Tree Store

    Date: 1890

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 422

    Caption: "Market Day, Toluca, Mexico."

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 026

    Caption: "U. S. 10" New Model Gun Carriage.," c. 1908-1912. Side view of a coastal defense disappearing gun carriage, without the gun barrel installed. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 077

    Caption: "In Memory of Florida Confederates, Memorial Monument -- Pensacola Florida, June 21, 34." Photograph of the pillar and statue erected in Pensacola's Lee Square in 1891, memorializing "the Uncrowned Heroes of the Southern Confederacy" and Confederate leaders such as Jefferson Davis. Two low pyramids made up of cannon balls bracket the monument. As of the time of this writing (November 2017), controversy swirls around efforts to remove the memorial.

    Date: 6/21/1934