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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 126

    Caption: "Main [sic] Memorial, ial [sic -- cut off in original photograph] Monument and National Hotel. Havana. July 4, 34." Designed by McKim, Mead and White, the Hotel Nacional in Havana opened in 1930. In the foreground is the Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine, two columns topped by an eagle with outstretched wings, built in 1925 to memorialize the American sailors who died in an explosion on the USS Maine in 1898. The eagle and other features of the monument were removed in 1961 as symbols of imperialism.

    Date: 7/4/1934

  • Rincon del Diablo Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Rincon del Diablo boundaries. Volume 2, page 188.

    Date: 1843

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 046

    Caption: "Rainbow in the Mist of Lower Falls," c. 1923. A rainbow over Lower Yellowstone Falls appears as an arch of mist in this black-and-white photograph.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 070

    Caption: "Antlers Hotel - Colorado Springs," c. 1923. A busy street scene in Colorado Springs, with the Antlers Hotel rising in the background. Built in 1901 to replace a previous building lost in a fire, this Italian Renaissance structure was torn down in 1967 and replaced with a fourteen-floor hotel, which still stands today.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 059

    Caption: "Port Townsend Postoffice [sic], Wash.," c. 1908-1912. View from the rear of the Port Townsend U.S. Customs Office and Post Office. The oldest federally-constructed post office in the state of Washington, the Richardson Romanesque-style building was completed in 1893.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 182

    Caption: "Capitol Building, Washington, D. C. July 23, 1934." View of the domed United States Capitol, housing both the Senate and House of Representatives. Constructed between 1793 and 1800 and designed by architect William Thornton, the building has undergone several expansions, including the addition of the wedding-cake-style dome in the 1850s.

    Date: 7/23/1934

  • eichler_f3274_377

    Preliminary design and drawing of Public Works Building, Sacramento, by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Public Works - Administration.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 238

    Caption: "Street Scene, San Jose," c. 1910. A horse-drawn carriage and several pedestrians can be seen in the distance along a palm-lined street in San Jose.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 228

    Caption: "Jones's [sic] Beach Tower, New York. Aug. 26 1934." The large tower in the center of this photograph was a 188-foot-tall water tower in Jones Beach, built in 1930 in imitation of the Italianate-style bell tower of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. The Long Island State Park Commission began to develop what is now the Jones Beach area for a park in the 1920s, dredging enough sand to connect several of the barrier islands south of Long Island and raising the elevation of the islands by fourteen feet to create one large park. It opened to the public in 1929. It is now a state park, with an estimated six million visitors each year.

    Date: 8/26/1934

  • Mission Vieja de la Purisima or Valle de los Palmas Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Mission Vieja de la Purisima or Valle de los Palmas boundaries. Volume 2, page 149.

    Date: 1845