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  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 027

    No Caption: A view of San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 earthquake and fires devastated the city.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 318

    No Caption: Shows a group of unidentified women posing on the grounds of the Benicia Arsenal, c. 1915.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 209

    Caption: "General U.S. Grants [sic] Tomb, Riverside Drive. New York, Aug. 10, 1934." The remains of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the U.S. and Commanding General of the Union Army during the last year of the Civil War, were laid to rest in this elaborate tomb. Grant died in 1885, but construction on the tomb did not begin until 1891. Grant's remains were transferred to the tomb on April 27, 1897.

    Date: 8/10/1934

  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 023

    No Caption: Interior shot of the Sutro Baths, north of the Cliff House, c. 1910. Designed by Adolph Sutro in 1894, the bathhouses at one time covered three oceanfront acres just north of Ocean Beach and the Cliff House. Eventually, the Sutro Baths fell into disrepair and what was left of them burned down in 1966. Since 1973, the concrete ruins have been part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 053

    Caption: "A.Y.P.E. Entrance." See also 96-07-08-alb08-121. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was held in Seattle, Washington in 1909 to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Although most of the fair's buildings have since been destroyed, several of them now serve as part of the University of Washington campus.

    Date: 1909

  • eichler_f3274_244

    Colored ink brush drawing of entrance buildings and tower, Stockton Boulevard entry, State Fair, Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Not built. Project for Department of Finance - Fairs and Expositions.

    Date: 1932

  • eichler_f3274_151_17

    Caption: "Cast Brass Bosses - S. F. T. C." Drawing of Science Building Addition, Downtown Campus, San Francisco State College. Pattern "B." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 210

    No Caption: The Smith Tower, named after it builder, industrialist and typewriter magnate, Lyman Cornelius Smith, opened in 1914. At 38 floors, the Smith Tower was the first skyscraper in Seattle and the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 097

    Caption: "Seattle water-front," c. 1905. View of Seattle's waterfront, as seen from Puget Sound. The Washington Hotel overlooks the city from atop Denny Hill in the center distance, built in the 1890s but destroyed in 1906 when the hill was regraded.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 162

    Caption: "Columbia River Scenes.," c. 1920. Shows the Vista House and Crown Point from a point on the hillside below. The Vista House was built in 1918 as a memorial to Oregon's pioneers. Designed by Edgar M. Lazarus, it sits atop Crown Point, a rocky promontory overlooking the Columbia River gorge, along the Historic Columbia River Highway.

    Date: 1920