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No caption. William McCarthy stands in front of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, c. 1935. Opened in 1927 and designed by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood, the Ahwahnee Hotel is located on the floor of Yosemite Valley. It was built as a resort hotel by the Yosemite Park and Curry Company. Modernized over the years, its name was changed to the Majestic Yosemite Hotel in 2016, as a result of legal dispute over trademarked names in the park.
Date: 1935
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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
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Caption: "Shasta Springs, Calif.," c. 1910. View of a waterfall behind a small gabled building and attached patio. Shasta Springs, just north of Dunsmuir, California, in the Trinity Mountains, was a resort area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It centered around natural springs, which became a featured stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Shasta Route. The resort operated until the 1950s, when it was purchased by private interests.
Date: 1910
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No Caption: A section of a tourist informational brochure describing the Pan American Highway from Victoria to Tamazunchale.
Date: 1938
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Caption: "East Elevation." Color drawing of postwar building, California School for the Deaf at Berkeley. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler, 1944; built in 1946. Project for Department of Education.
Date: 1944
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Caption: "Healdsburg," c. 1914, shows Grace McCarthy and an unidentified man rowing boats on the Russian River as a train crosses the river on the railroad trestle behind them.
Date: 1914
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Caption: "Smashing the Target." and "(8) June 19 -- [illegible]." Image of a plume of water presumably caused by an artillery shell during target practice on an ocean or lake. The date is illegible (mostly cut off).
Date: Undated
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Caption: "Feeding the Pigeons," shows a man in a hat and overcoat feeding pigeons near what appears to be the columns of the Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "South Elevation. Unit for Infirm Females, Stockton State Hospital." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1946. Ward F similar to Ward 7, but improved in detail. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals.
Date: 1940
