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  • San Jose Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of San Jose boundaries. Volume 1, page 338.

    Date: 1837

  • California Constitution of 1850

    Image of the title page of the orginial Constitution of the State of California.

    Date: 1849

  • eichler_f3274_313

    Caption: "Unit for Infirm Females, Stockton State Hospital." Design by Alfred Eichler; drawing by Harold Nicholaus. Built in 1947. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals.

    Date: 1941

  • eichler_f3274_367

    Caption: "Open Air Theater - Big Basin - California Redwood Park - Santa Cruz County." Design and original pencil drawing by Alfred Eichler. W. A. Foster, Chief of Division of Parks, was consulted on the design, but the Park Commission sought a more "rustic" appearance. Project for Department of Natural Resources - Beaches and Parks. See also print of drawing, eichler_f3274_368a.

    Date: 1932

  • eichler_f3274_295

    Caption: "Preliminary Sketch Superintendent's Residence - Pacific Colony." The residence was built to a later design. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals. The hospital was initially named Pacific Colony (1927-1953), followed by Pacific State Hospital (1953-1979); Frank D. Lanterman State Hospital and Developmental Center; and finally Lanterman Developmental Center, which closed in 2015.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 241

    Caption: "Fort Whitman, Wash," c. 1910. View of Goat Island in Puget Sound, Washington. Goat Island was the location of Fort Whitman, a small coastal defense fortification built in 1909. The fort consisted of a single battery and a mine field patrol and observation outpost. The buildings were torn down in 1945 at the conclusion of World War II.

    Date: 1910

  • eichler_f3274_453_5

    Design and drawing of California State Building for Nevada Highways Exposition in Reno, Nevada, by Alfred Eichler, c. 1926; from packet of designs and plans by Eichler for the Transcontinental Highways Exposition of 1927. Built. Initial appropriation of $100,000 was reduced to $50,000, so only one half of the plan was built. The tower was eliminated.

    Date: 1926

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 003

    Caption: "City Hall, San Francisco.," c. 1925. View of the Beaux Arts-style building that replaced San Francisco's City Hall after the original building was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. Designed by architect Arthur Brown, Jr., the building occupies two full city blocks. See also 96-07-08-alb09-005, 96-07-08-alb10-001, and 96-07-08-alb11-001.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 067

    Caption: " Parliament Building Victoria B.C." c. 1909. Constructed in the Neo-baroque, Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival architectural style (Francis Rattenbury, architect), the British Columbia Parliament Buildings were completed in 1897, and are home to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 168

    Caption: "Mission Street After the Quake," 1906. A view of the severe damage to Mission Street after the earthquake. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.

    Date: 1906