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  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 080

    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-217 with caption: "Last Rites," shows a grave site with dozens of caskets ready for burial. A priest and two altar boys stand at one side of the caskets, while a large group of US Navy sailors looks on from the other side. While sailing from port in San Diego on the morning of July 21, 1905, the boiler of the USS Bennington exploded, killing sixty-six of her crew. The victims were laid to rest in the cemetery at Fort Rosecrans.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 256

    Caption: "Point Benito [sic]. Fort Barry." c. 1910. A view of the Point Bonita Lighthouse near Fort Barry and the Marin Headlands. The lighthouse, built in 1855, was the third lighthouse built on the West Coast to shepherd ships through the narrow straights of the Golden Gate. The lighthouse, still active today, is maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 069

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

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 227

    Caption: "Flavel Hotel -- on the Columbia River.," c. 1905-1909. Built at the turn of the century, the Flavel Hotel housed passengers waiting to board steamships of the Great Northern Pacific Steamship Company bound for San Francisco and other ports. The Flavel family constructed the hotel as part of an effort to establish the town of Flavel on Tansy Point along the Columbia River. The town failed to attract sufficient residents, however, and was annexed into Warrenton by 1918.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 237

    Caption: "Nisqually Glacier, Mount Rainier - Note the ice on slope slowly breaking up," c, 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • eichler_f3274_440_4

    Negative of pencil drawing of Veterans Home, Yountville, by Alfred Eichler, c. 1946. Project for Department of Veterans Affairs.

    Date: 1946

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 240

    Caption: "Fort Casey Lighthouse, Wash.," c. 1909. View of the lighthouse with fort buildings in the background. Located on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, the Admiralty Head Lighthouse was built overlooking Admiralty Inlet in 1903. It replaced an earlier structure that had to be moved in 1890 to accommodate the construction of Fort Casey. The second lighthouse, shown here, was built with thick walls in order to withstand earthquakes and the concussion of guns at Fort Casey. Deactivated in 1922, the lighthouse has since been restored by Washington State Parks, and is part of the Fort Casey State Park.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 252

    Caption: "Mexican Custom House and Officer.," c. 1905. William McCarthy (far right) standing in front of a customs house in Mexico, with two other unidentified men. One of the men appears to be of Hispanic ethnicity, and is likely the "Officer" mentioned in the caption.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 040

    Caption: " Court of the Universe - Looking East," with Fountain of the Setting Sun, or Descending Night (Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • eichler_f3274_017

    Caption: "Detail of Tower." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1930. This was one of the first border stations and was situated in desert country; its purpose was to provide a stopping place for inspection of motor traffic coming into California in order to enforce quarantine against insect infestation of California agricultural products. Project for Department of Agriculture.

    Date: 1930