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  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 171

    Caption: "Scene at Fort Canby, Wash.," c. 1909. Overview of jetty and wharf facilities jutting out from the shoreline near Fort Canby in the state of Washington. See also 96-07-08-alb05-231.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 092

    Caption: "Stockton Asylum Grounds," Stockton, California, c. 1906. The Stockton Insane Asylum was established in 1851, completed in 1853, and was the first public mental health hospital in California. It remained a functioning state hospital until 1995.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 113

    Caption: "Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah," c. 1935. The Salt Lake City Mormon Temple was opened in 1893 and is the largest temple (253,015 square feet) built by the Church of the Latter-day Saints.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 075

    Caption: "Palace Hotel Court," c. 1906. (Handwritten on photograph: "copyright 1906 by W.E Worden."). The Palace Hotel was originally built in 1875, rebuilt in 1909, and was one of the first premier luxury hotels in San Francisco.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 103

    Caption: "Office Bldg. Swift & Co - Chicago," c. 1923. The general office of Chicago's Swift and Co., founded by meat packing magnate Gustavus Franklin Smith, Sr. in the late nineteenth century.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 320

    Caption: "Damaged German Submarine.," c. 1917. Shows the above-water portions of a German U-boat, or submarine, likely docked in either Petaluma or San Francisco, given the presence of a Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway ferry in the background.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 091

    No caption, c. 1920. Scene of rocky sea cliffs and ocean, with trees bracketing the view. May be near Midway Point, near Pebble Beach. See also 96-07-08-alb04-217.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 061

    Caption: "Review, Fort Worden.," c. 1908-1912. Shows a military band playing or preparing to play, with rows of troops assembled in the background on the right side of the photograph. Fort Worden is located in Port Townsend, Washington, on Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1898, and by 1902 it was serving as an active U.S. Army base. Fort Worden was part of the "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. The U.S. sold the property to the State of Washington in 1957. In 1973, the fort and surrounding area opened as Fort Worden State Park.

    Date: 1908

  • Huasna or Ex-Mission of San Luis Obispo Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Huasna or Ex-Mission of San Luis Obispo boundaries. Volume 2, page 15.

    Date: 1843

  • Corral de Piedra Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Corral de Piedra boundaries. Volume 1, page 640.

    Date: 1839