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  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 058

    Caption: " Educational Building," with marching band and Tower of Jewels in the background at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 041

    No Caption: Grace McCarthy (left) and unidentified woman, posing with a rose, at an unidentified location, c. 1906.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 095

    Caption: "Michigan AV. - Chicago," c. 1923. Michigan Avenue filled with cars, a double decker bus, and a traffic officer.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 238

    Caption: "Picturesque Connecticut Highway. U.S. No 1. Sept. 4, 1934." William McCarthy standing next to a U.S. Route 1 sign along a tree-lined highway. U.S. Route 1 is a north-south highway connecting the eastern seaboard from Fort Kent, Maine to Key West, Florida.

    Date: 9/4/1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 308

    Caption: "Touring De Luxe. Arranging Sleeping Quarters. Oct. 10, 1934." William McCarthy is arranging pads for sleeping in the car that the couple used to travel across the U.S. The vehicle appears to be a Studebaker sedan, possibly dating from the mid-1920s.

    Date: 10/10/1934

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 224

    Caption: "July 4th Healdsburg," c. 1921. View of river bank along the Russian River near Healdsburg. People are gathered along the shore, watching the beginning of a swimming contest. A line of swimmers is in the process of leaping into the river, in the middle right portion of the photograph.

    Date: 1921

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 003

    Caption: "Panama-Pacific International Exposition, General View." The Panama Pacific International Exposition was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, as well as inventive technologies and new industries from around the world. It was also a chance for San Francisco to show the world how the great city had rebuilt and thrived after the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 063

    Caption: "Causeway Crossing Lake Pontchartrain -- New Orleans -- June 19, 34." The concrete deck of the Maestri Bridge (also called the Pontchartrain Bridge, the Five Mile Bridge, or the Watson-Williams Pontchartrain Bridge) stretches into the distance over Lake Pontchartrain in this photograph. Built in 1928 as the first permanent crossing of Lake Pontchartrain, it was also the longest concrete bridge in the world at the time of its construction. The bridge, almost five miles long, spans the lake between New Orleans and Slidell, Louisiana.

    Date: 6/17/1934

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 194

    Caption: "Alum Rock", c. 1910. Grace McCarthy standing in front of the gazebo of Alum Rock Park. The park, founded in 1872, is one of California's oldest municipal parks. The gazebo, the park's oldest standing structure (built in about 1890), features a fountain that used to supply water from the mineral springs in the area. Today, the fountain's water comes from the City of San Jose's municipal supply. See also 96-07-08-alb05-116.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 229

    No caption, c. 1920. Four-horse draft team apparently hitched to automobile, with trees and houses in background.

    Date: 1920