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  • Old Series Trademark No. 1744

    El Captain, Yosemite

    Date: 1889

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 231

    Caption: "Elementary Principles of Machine Design, WM McCarthy," (William McCarthy, Illustrator).

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 124

    Caption: "President Roosevelt in Vallejo," c. 1903. President Theodore Roosevelt came to California in 1903, visiting several cities and towns, including Vallejo, where he laid the cornerstone of the Navy YMCA. Thousands traveled to Vallejo to greet the president, most by steam railroad.

    Date: 1903

  • eichler_f3274_368a

    Caption: "Open Air Theater - Big Basin - California Redwood Park - Santa Cruz County. March 1932." Print version of drawing by Alfred Eichler of open air theater in Big Basin, California Redwood Park (eichler_f3274_367). Project for Department of Natural Resources - Beaches and Parks.

    Date: 1932

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 225

    Caption: "Casa Del Rey - Santa Cruz," c. 1915, shows William and Grace McCarthy with an unidentified woman in an automobile in front of the Casa Del Rey Hotel in Santa Cruz, California. The luxury hotel was opened in 1911 by developer Fred W. Swanton. The hotel was demolished after it sustained considerable damage from the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 272

    Caption: "Indian Wigwam," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy poses at the entrance to what William McCarthy labeled a "wigwam," a dwelling of the Ahwahnechee people. The Ahwahnechee (a Native American tribe who traditionally occupied the Yosemite Valley) called the dwellings o-chum. Pine branches were arranged in a tee-pee-like shape and then covered with layered slabs of cedar bark.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 171

    No Caption: c. 1910. View of Mount Shasta, at the southern end of the Cascade Range, looking east. Mount Shasta has an elevation of 14,179 feet, making it the fifth-highest peak in California. It is also rated as a potential high-risk volcano by the U.S. Geological Survey, and is part of the eastern rim of the Pacific Ring of Fire.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 016

    Caption: "Market St. S.F. Calif." See also 96-07-08-alb05-136, with caption: "Market St. Sept 9. 1910 S.F." Market Street in San Francisco, decked with bunting and flags for California's Admissions Day, the anniversary of the Golden State's entry as a state in the U.S.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 108

    Caption: "Congress Springs.," c. 1910. Grace McCarthy seated on an unusual bench made from a tree branch and logs, in front of a timber shelter at Pacific Congress Springs near Saratoga in California's Santa Clara Valley. Pacific Congress Springs, a mineral spring named after Congress Springs in New York, operated as a resort area from the nineteenth century until the 1930s.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 202

    Caption: "The Battery, Lower Manhattan, New York, N.Y [sic], Aug. 4, 1934." This photograph shows the Manhattan skyline, as well as the Battery, a 25-acre park at the tip of Manhattan Island. The park was named for the artillery batteries that used to protect the city and its harbor from this location.

    Date: 8/4/1934