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  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 071

    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-156 with caption: "Agricultural Building, Portland Fair, 1905." View of the Agriculture and Horticulture Building at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. The exposition was held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 137

    Caption: "N.Y. State Capitol - Albany." New York State's Capitol Building was constructed between 1867 and 1899. The initial architect, Thomas Fuller, designed the first floor in a Classical or Romanesque style. He was replaced by Leopold Eidlitz and Henry Hobson Richardson, who designed the next two floors in a Renaissance style. The final architect to preside over the project, Isaac G. Perry, completed the building in a Victorian-Romanesque style. See also 96-07-08-alb11-247.

    Date: 9/7/1934

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 044

    Caption: "Lower Falls - Yellowstone," c. 1923. This photograph features the massive Lower Yellowstone Falls, as seen from the falls' base. A group of unidentified people standing to one side provides some sense of scale. As the Yellowstone River flows north from Yellowstone Lake it passes over two waterfalls (Upper and Lower Yellowstone Falls) before reaching the Yellowstone Grand Canyon. The 308-foot Lower Yellowstone Falls carries more water volume than any other waterfall in the Rocky Mountains.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 111

    *Caption: "California Building -- San Diego Exposition," c. 1915-1916. Automobile parked along road to the Panama-California Exposition entrance, with California Building's tower and dome in the background. The Panama-California Exposition was held in San Diego in 1915 and 1916 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. It was smaller in scale and less well-funded than the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in 1915 in San Francisco. See also 96-07-08-alb05-071.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 118

    Caption: "Niagara River," c. 1925. The Whirlpool Rapids Bridge can be seen in this view of the Niagara River. The two-deck arch bridge, opened in 1897, connects the towns of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, and Niagara Falls, New York.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 123

    Caption: "Statues of," shows the Fountain of Spring(Furio Piccirilli, sculptor), in the Court of the Four Seasons, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 97-07-08-alb01-101 and 96-07-08-alb03-034.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 079

    Caption: "Missouri River Bridge," c. 1923. The Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge connects Council Bluffs, Iowa, with Omaha, Nebraska. The rail truss bridge was the third in the location, opening in 1916.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 222

    Caption: "Highlands Inn," c. 1920. Grace McCarthy sitting on a bench on the stone and timber porch of the Highlands Inn in Carmel Highlands, a few miles south of Carmel-by-the-Sea. The hotel was built in 1917.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 280

    No caption, c. 1935. View of the side/back of Half Dome. Cables used to assist hikers in ascending the summit can be seen at the left side of the photograph.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 064

    Caption: "Government Headquarters," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel (the large, flat-roofed building in the center of the photograph) and surrounding complex of buildings in Yellowstone National Park.

    Date: 1923