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  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 203

    Caption: "Bathers at Monte Rio," c. 1910-1913. Crowd of people on the Monte Rio beach along the Russian River, many wearing bathing suits while others are in suits and dresses. Monte Rio, north of San Francisco in Sonoma County, became a resort area in the early twentieth century, after the sawmills providing the area's primary industry closed down.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 214

    Caption: "Central Park. View from Radio City Blg. New York. Aug. 14, 1934." Bird's eye view of New York City's 843-acre Central Park. Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead and architect Calvert Vaux designed the park, the first portion of which opened to the public in 1858. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962.

    Date: 8/14/1934

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 298

    Caption: "Grant Hotel -- San Diego," c. 1910. View of the U.S. Grant Hotel, built by the son of Ulysses S. Grant (Union General and 18th President of the U.S.), who named the hotel for his father. The building, designed by Harrison Albright, opened for business in October 1910.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 001

    Caption: "Government building, Victoria, B.C.," c. 1908-1912. View of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria. Designed by Francis Rattenbury, the construction began on the complex in 1893 and finished four years later. The buildings were first used in 1898.

    Date: 1908

  • eichler_f3274_271

    Caption: "Ward - Kitchen & Steam Plant Building, Agnews State Hospital Agnew California - State Dept. of Public Works Division of Architecture." Pen and ink drawing of ward buildings, Agnews State Hospital, by Alfred Eichler. Built. Design by H. S. Hazen in the "Spanish Style" introduced by George Washington Smith. Project for Department of Mental Hygiene - Hospitals.

    Date: 1930

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1744

    El Captain, Yosemite

    Date: 1889

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 121b

    No Caption: Commemorative U.S. two-cent postage stamp issued for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The stamp features a portrait of William H. Seward, U.S. Secretary of State (1861-1869), U.S. Senator (1849-1861), and twelfth governor of New York (1839-1842). Seward negotiated the purchase of the Alaskan territory from Russia in 1867.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 069

    Caption: "Apple Show Watsonville.," c. 1910-1913. Display of apples at the Apple Show in Watsonville, held annually from 1910-1913. The four-day festival featured parades, displays, dances, shows, and, of course, apples. The 1910 show, for instance, featured over 2,530,000 apples.

    Date: 1913

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 019

    Caption: "Fort Casey block-house." and "USED AS A FORT TO FIGHT INDIANS IN EARLY DAYS," c. 1908-1912. View of a blockhouse, a timber structure built by European settlers to guard against attack during the Indian Wars of 1855-1857. See also 96-07-08-alb08-067.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 272

    Caption: "Sugar Factory -- Chino," c. 1915. View of Chino's sugar beet factory, established in 1891 by Robert and Henry Oxnard. Henry later established a larger factory in the town that now bears his name (Oxnard, in Ventura County). The factory operated for more than twenty-five years before closing in October 1917.

    Date: 1915