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  • eichler_f3274_372

    Caption: "Alfred Eichler design study." Study for historic landmark sign for California Division of Highways. These landmarks were created throughout the state of California. Project for Department of Natural Resources - Beaches and Parks.

    Date: 1946

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 013

    Caption: "Public Market, Long Beach, Calif, May 18, 1934." Small street market in Long Beach, showing a flower vendor, fruit or vegetable vendors, and a few other stalls too distant to make out the merchandise.

    Date: 5/18/1934

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 031

    Caption: "12 Inch Sea Coast Gun," c. 1908-1912. Group of men operating or maintaining a 12-inch disappearing gun. 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. Such guns were often used in coastal fortifications.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 195

    Caption: "Congress Springs.", c. 1910. Grace McCarthy seated on an unusual bench made from a tree branch and logs, in front of a timber shelter at Pacific Congress Springs, near Saratoga in California's Santa Clara Valley. Pacific Congress Springs, a mineral spring named after Congress Springs in New York, operated as a resort area from the nineteenth century until the 1930s. See also 96-07-08-alb05-108.

    Date: 1910

  • eichler_f3274_067

    Design and color rendering of Dining Hall, California School for the Blind at Berkeley by Alfred Eichler. Annotation: "Dining Hall. Younger boys dormitory at left, older boys dormitory at right." Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1928

  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 047

    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-193, with caption: "Fillmore St. Dec. 10, 1906." A view of a flooded Fillmore Street in San Francisco during the winter of 1906.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 140

    Caption: "Mammoth Springs, Yellowstone Park. Summer House - Deer, Elk, Moose and Buffalo horns," c. 1935, shows Grace McCarthy standing at the entrance to a hut made of many antlers, skulls, and bones from elk, deer, moose, and buffalo.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 182

    Caption: "Union Pacific Bridge -- Portland, OR.," c. 1915. Built in 1912, this through-truss, double-deck, vertical lift bridge crosses the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. See also 96-07-08-alb08-038.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 126

    Caption: "Tiajuana [sic] River Bridge. Not much choice between bridge and muddy road," c. 1915-1916. Dilapidated bridge on right side of photograph, with automobile driving over muddy road next to the bridge.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 296

    Caption: "El Capitan," c. 1917. El Capitan is a vertical granite rock formation in Yosemite Valley. It's sheer cliff face, rising almost 3,000 feet above the Valley, is a favorite rock climbing location.

    Date: 1917