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  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 141

    Caption: "Bakers [sic] Beach Presidio," c. 1906. Breaking ocean wave at Baker Beach. The beach is located on the Pacific Ocean, west and south of Golden Gate Point (the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula) within the boundaries of the Presidio of San Francisco.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 088

    Caption: "Column of Progress," in the Forecourt of Stars. At top of column is The Adventurous Bowman (Hermon A. MacNeil, sculptor), and at the base of the column is a four panel frieze (Isadore Konti, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 214

    Caption: "Central Park. View from Radio City Blg. New York. Aug. 14, 1934." Bird's eye view of New York City's 843-acre Central Park. Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead and architect Calvert Vaux designed the park, the first portion of which opened to the public in 1858. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962.

    Date: 8/14/1934

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 298

    Caption: "Grant Hotel -- San Diego," c. 1910. View of the U.S. Grant Hotel, built by the son of Ulysses S. Grant (Union General and 18th President of the U.S.), who named the hotel for his father. The building, designed by Harrison Albright, opened for business in October 1910.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph x005

    Caption: "Ancient Locomotives. Chicago Fair. Sept. 21, 1934." This photograph shows two steam locomotives from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, on display at the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, celebrating that city's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. This photograph was loose in the box with Album 11.

    Date: 9/21/1934

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 001

    Caption: "Government building, Victoria, B.C.," c. 1908-1912. View of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria. Designed by Francis Rattenbury, the construction began on the complex in 1893 and finished four years later. The buildings were first used in 1898.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 025

    Caption: "Emerald Pool Yellowstone," c. 1923. Grace McCarthy (fourth from the right) and several unidentified people admire Emerald Pool in Yellowstone National Park. The pool, sometimes called Emerald Spring, is located in the park's Black Sand Basin. Yellow sulphur deposits, combined with the blue of the water, give the pool a vivid green color.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 240

    No Caption: Photograph shows five female bullfighters entering a bullring in Tijuana, Mexico. A ticket is pasted in the album above and slightly on top of the photograph, reading "Plaza De Toros, Tijuana, Lady Bullfighters, Sunday Sep 17 1905, $2.00, Good for One Admission."

    Date: 9/17/1905

  • eichler_f3274_271

    Caption: "Ward - Kitchen & Steam Plant Building, Agnews State Hospital Agnew California - State Dept. of Public Works Division of Architecture." Pen and ink drawing of ward buildings, Agnews State Hospital, by Alfred Eichler. Built. Design by H. S. Hazen in the "Spanish Style" introduced by George Washington Smith. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals.

    Date: 1930

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 260

    Caption: "Glacier Point - 3000 Feet Above Camp Curry," c. 1917. William McCarthy poses atop Glacier Point, overlooking Yosemite Valley. Glacier Point, on the south wall of the valley 3,200 feet above what is now known as Half Dome Village, provides panoramic views of the valley and many of its features.

    Date: 1917