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  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 036

    Caption: "Seattle Street Scene." Street view in Seattle, with Smith Tower in background. See also 96-07-08-alb05-178.

    Date: 1914

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2326

    Egyptian Oil

    Date: 1893

  • Correspondence on Opposition to Legislation

    Correspondence from Mrs. Elizabeth R. Carter to Earl Warren regarding opposition to legislation that would exclude Japanese-Americans from California

    Date: October 25, 1944

  • Correspondence on Liquidation of Japanese Banks

    Correspondence from Maurice C. Sparling to Charles M. Wollenberg regarding Japanese bank liquidation during resettlement

    Date: August 31, 1948

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1774

    California Tomato Ketchup

    Date: 1889

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 420b

    No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing San Angel, or Villa Alvaro Obregon, a municipality of Mexico City.

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 337

    Caption: "6 inch Howitzers -- Camp Kearney," c. 1917. View of several 6" Howitzers, as well as several outbuildings and a line of artillery weapons under canvas covers. William McCarthy is standing next to the middle Howitzer. Camp Kearney was established by the U.S. Army in 1917 just north of San Diego. The post was largely abandoned by the government in 1920, used as a military and civilian airfield. It did not see increased military service again until the 1930s.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 316

    Caption: "San Francisco, Oakland Bay Bridge. Opening Day, Nov. 12, 1936." View of a portion of the ceremonies officially opening the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to traffic upon its completion in November 1936. The Bay Bridge's design combined three different types of bridge-building technology over the five miles it covers between San Francisco and Oakland: a suspension span, a cantilevered span, and a tunnel. At the time of its completion the bridge was the longest steel structure on the globe. It also featured the deepest bridge pier ever built, and the world's largest bore tunnel.

    Date: 11/12/1936

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 159

    Caption: "Veu-Deleu [sic] Santa Cruz," c. 1910. Ocean shore scene with waves and high spray, with various structures on a promontory in the distance. The Vue de L'eau (View of the Water) was a station on the Santa Cruz, Garfield Park and Capitola Electric Railway electric streetcar line. The station, built in 1891, was located at the very end of the line, on a promontory overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It featured an observatory on the top story. The same company also built a casino, ballroom, and restaurant nearby. The station burned down in 1925. See also 96-07-08-alb08-193.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 111

    Caption: "Steamer Minnesota, Seattle.," c. 1909. View of the steamship Minnesota II, built in 1903. She was said to be the largest U.S. merchant ship afloat at the time. Operated by the Great Northern Steamship Company, she sailed between the U.S. and markets in Asia until 1915. She was sold at that time, and in 1917 began operating in the Atlantic between the U.S. and the United Kingdom. The U.S. Navy commissioned her as a troop ship in 1919, changing her name to Troy. She brought over 14,000 U.S. troops home from war-torn Europe. She never resumed active service after this, being scrapped in 1923. See also 96-07-08-alb08-166.

    Date: 1909