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  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 181

    No caption, c. 1915-1920. Grace McCarthy standing in a campground next to automobile rigged with a mattress and curtains for privacy while sleeping. See also 96-07-08-alb04-175, 179, 180, and 182.

    Date: 1920

  • eichler_f3274_185

    Drawing of Industrial Education Unit, Mesa Campus, Santa Barbara State College. Drawing by Harold Nicholaus. Design by Alfred Eichler. Built like this, with modifications. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1940

  • 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 09, Photograph 306

    Caption: "Indian Wigwam," c. 1935. William and Grace McCarthy pose at the entrance to what William 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: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 124a

    Caption: "Morro Castle -- Havana -- Cuba. July 4, 1934." Morro Castle, also called Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro, has guarded the entrance to Havana's harbor since 1589. Various additions have been built over the years, including the Faro Castillo del Morro Lighthouse, added in 1846. Morro Castle currently houses the offices of the Havana Harbormaster, and operates as a museum.

    Date: 7/4/1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 325

    Caption: "San Francisco Bay Bridge Cable Anchorage. Nov. 1, 1935." View of a cable anchorage at one terminus of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. 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 in 1936 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: 11/1/1935

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 243

    Caption: "Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City -- Utah.," c. 1916. View of the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Truman O. Angell, architect) in Salt Lake City, Utah, dedicated in 1893. The Brigham Young Monument (also known as the Pioneer Monument) stands at the left. Designed by Cyrus Edwin Dallin, this statue commemorating one of the founders of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints was first displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and moved to its post at Main and South Temple Streets in Salt Lake City in 1897.

    Date: 1916

  • 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 01, Photograph 165

    No Caption: Pedestrians seen walking towards the entrance to the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.

    Date: 1915