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  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 050

    Caption: "Entrance - Manufacturers Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 206

    Caption: "Government Exhibit -- Portland Exposition." Exhibit of various types of heavy ordnance shells, including armor piercing shells as well as torpedoes. The exhibit was located in the Government Building of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, 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. See also 96-07-08-alb08-159.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 163

    No caption: A path leading to the John Shields home on Long Island.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 264

    Caption: "Notre Dame College. South Bend, Indiana. Sept. 14, 1734 [sic], Sept. 14, 1934." Founded in 1842 and officially chartered in 1844, the University of Notre Dame is a Catholic research university famous world-wide for the quality of the education it provides. This photograph shows the Main Building's domed tower, (just to the right of center), and the steeple of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart (center), the university's on-site Catholic Church.

    Date: 9/14/1934

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 085

    Caption: "Transportation Busses [sic] - Boulder City to Boulder Dam," c. 1935, shows a line of double-decker buses used to transport workers from Boulder City to Boulder Dam.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 432

    Caption: "National Palace - housing the Presidents [sic] executive offices."

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 211

    Caption: "Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition," "Agricultural Building" and "A.Y.P.E. Seattle Wash." View of the Agricultural Building of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, often referred to as the "A-Y-P." Held in Seattle 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

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 199

    Caption: "12" Disappearing Gun," c. 1915. Looking up at the undercarriage of a 12" disappearing gun aimed over a high parapet. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 150

    Caption: "Yuba River Scene.," c. 1920. Mountain scene with graveled road at left and river at right.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 060

    Caption: "Angel Terrace," c. 1923. Dead trees around Angel Terrace, along the upper terrace loop of Mammoth Hot Springs.

    Date: 1923