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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 088

    No Caption. A dining room with elaborate decorative accents at unidentified location, c. 1910.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 260

    No Caption: Shows a train somewhere in the Sierra Nevada, c. 1915.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 251

    Caption: "Niagara Falls. Sept. 10, 1934." View of Horseshoe Falls, largest of the three waterfalls that make up the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.

    Date: 9/10/1934

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 420

    Caption: "Market Day - Toluca, Mexico."

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 159

    No Caption: The photograph has a hand-written inscription stating: "Portola Electric Bell Copyright 1909 Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 800." Installed on the intersection of Third and Market Streets in San Francisco, the Portola Electric Bell contained two thousand bulbs and rose 125 feet above the street. It was part of the Portola Festival of 1909, a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 162

    Caption: "Superintents [sic] Home On The J. Shields Home. Place. N.Y." A small home on the property of John Shields, on Long Island, secondary to the main residence on the property.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 061

    Caption: "The Park Music Stand," c.1906. Façade of the Golden Gate Park Bandstand, which shows some damage, possibly from the 1906 earthquake.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 173

    No Caption: Caption in photograph album (172.0): "City Hall Tower Before and after the Quake." 1906. A view of San Francisco City Hall after the April 18, 1906 earthquake shows the devastation to the structure.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 011

    Caption: "Lancaster Battery, Presidio," c. 1906, shows a distant view of Lancaster Battery. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 325

    Caption: "San Francisco Bay Bridge Cable Anchorage. Nov. 1, 1935." View of a cable anchorage at one terminus of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The Bay Bridge's design combined three different types of bridge-building technology over the five miles it covers between San Francisco and Oakland: a suspension span, a cantilevered span, and a tunnel. At the time of its completion in 1936 the bridge was the longest steel structure on the globe. It also featured the deepest bridge pier ever built, and the world's largest bore tunnel.

    Date: 11/1/1935