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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 235

    Caption: "Main Entrance, Stockton Insane Asylum," 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 07, Photograph 267

    Caption: "Riverside Villa Healdsburg July 1914," shows William and Grace (right) McCarthy and an unidentified woman at the Riverside Villa resort along the Russian River in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California.

    Date: 1914

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 175

    No caption. William McCarthy and unidentified woman embrace while sitting in a wicker chair in front of the John Shields residence in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 051

    Caption: "Hermits Rest - Grand Canyon of Arizona," c. 1935, shows Grace McCarthy sitting under an archway made of large boulders, with a bell hanging down from the top center, and "Hermits Rest" spelled out on one of the rocks.

    Date: 1935

  • Schedule II Volume V

    The Census of 1852 collection includes enumerations of California's 32 counties, arranged into 126 volumes. Schedule I enumerated the county's inhabitants, while schedule II enurmerated economic production. Many pages of this volume are damaged.

    Date: 1852

  • Schedule I Volume II

    The Census of 1852 collection includes enumerations of California's 32 counties, arranged into 126 volumes. Schedule I enumerated the county's inhabitants, while schedule II enurmerated economic production. Many pages of this volume are damaged.

    Date: 1852

  • Schedule I Volume I

    The Census of 1852 collection includes enumerations of California's 32 counties, arranged into 126 volumes. Schedule I enumerated the county's inhabitants, while schedule II enurmerated economic production. Many pages of this volume are damaged.

    Date: 1852

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 337

    No Caption: c. 1935. Pictured are vehicles driving through the famous Wawona Tunnel Tree, a giant sequoia that stood in Mariposa Grove of Yosemite National Park. The tree's tunnel was cut in 1881 as a tourist attraction. In 1969, the tree fell during a severe winter storm. Before it fell, the ancient tree measured 234 ft. high, twenty-six ft. in diameter, and was approximately 2,100 years old.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 024

    Caption: "Ostrich Farm, Los Angeles," c. 1935. View of several ostriches in a corral at the Cawston Ostrich Farm in Pasadena. Opened by Edward Cawston in 1886, this was the first ostrich farm in the U.S. It became a popular tourist stop along the Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway in the early twentieth century, where visitors could ride an ostrich, or be pulled by one in a light card. They could also buy merchandise made out of ostrich feathers, such as hats and boas. The farm closed in the mid-1930s.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 239

    Caption: "Fort Worden, Wash.," c. 1909. Panoramic view of Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington, on Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1898. 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: 1909