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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 142

    Caption: "Promenade, Daytona Beach, Florida, July 9, 1934." Wide promenade along the beach at Daytona Beach, featuring a row of benches at the left (seaside) and covered seating areas on the right, with palm trees. Daytona Beach was created when the neighboring towns of Daytona, Daytona Beach, Kingston, and Seabreeze merged in 1926. The area's beach was already well-known in both tourist and automobile circles

    Date: 7/9/1934

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 012

    Caption: "Breaking of Ground Celebration," Oct 14, 1911, held in San Francisco for the planned Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which was slated to open in 1915. 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: 1911

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 202

    *Caption: "Stanford Chapel," c. 1920. Façade of Stanford Memorial Chapel, designed by Charles A. Coolidge and dedicated in 1903. The church was commissioned by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband and the University's founder, Leland Stanford. See also 96-07-08-alb04-215.

    Date: 1920

  • eichler_f3274_247_1

    Caption: "Administration Building - State Agricultural Park, Sacramento. State Department of Public Works, Division of Architecture, Geo. B. McDougall State Architect." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler of Art Building, State Fair, Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento. Project for Department of Finance - Fairs and Expositions.

    Date: 1937

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 009

    Caption: "Olvera St. Mexican Market Place, Los Angeles, May 18, 1934." View of the Olvera Street Market in Los Angeles. In 1926, Christine Sterling began efforts to preserve the buildings on and around Olvera Street (one of the oldest parts of Los Angeles). After several years of struggle and fundraising, Olvera Street was closed to automobile traffic in 1929, and opened as the Paseo de Los Angeles in 1930. The street and its market quickly became popular tourist sites, promoters touting the area as "A Mexican Street of Yesterday in a City of Today."

    Date: 5/18/1934

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 145

    Caption: "East Side New York." Bird's eye view of New York City's Lower East Side and Two Bridges areas. The Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges span the East River in the right side of the photograph. See also 96-07-08-alb09-166.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 305

    No caption, undated. Depicts a temporary memorial of some kind, possibly a funeral arrangement, with a cloth canopy over a podium upon which sits a covered table or small casket, with a cross and decorative flowers and palm fronds. Stairs leading to the podium are bracketed by small pedestals topped by vases holding American flags.

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 117

    Caption: "Niagara Falls," c. 1925. View of the three waterfalls that make up the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York. From left to right, the falls are called American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls (the smallest of the three), and Horseshoe Falls.

    Date: 1925

  • Correspondence on Licenses

    Correspondence to Bureau of Marine Fisheries requesting list of Japanese holders of commercial fishing licenses

    Date: March 2, 1942

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 233

    No caption, c. 1920. Four unidentified women, with Grace McCarthy (second from the right) in what appears to be a park, in front of bushes and ornamental grass.

    Date: 1920