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  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 203

    Caption: "Bathers at Monte Rio," c. 1910-1913. Crowd of people on the Monte Rio beach along the Russian River, many wearing bathing suits while others are in suits and dresses. Monte Rio, north of San Francisco in Sonoma County, became a resort area in the early twentieth century, after the sawmills providing the area's primary industry closed down.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 388

    Caption: "Maguey, a most useful plant from which is made paper, rope, twine, cloth, vinegar, molases [sic], medicine and native drinks, pulque, mezcal & tequila."

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 036

    Caption: "Seattle Street Scene." Street view in Seattle, with Smith Tower in background. See also 96-07-08-alb05-178.

    Date: 1914

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 176

    Caption: "Santa Fe Trestle. Martinez, "c. 1906.

    Date: 1906

  • Acalanes Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Acalanes boundaries. Volume 1, page 72.

    Date: 1834

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0248

    Egyptian Cement

    Date: 1873

  • eichler_f3274_375

    Christmas party poster drawn by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Public Works.

    Date: 1931

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 170

    Caption: "Hardeeville, S.C. July 16, 1934." Four unidentified white children posing with an unidentified African-American woman, possibly their nanny, given the manner of dress of all parties.

    Date: 7/16/1934

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 085

    Caption: "San Francisco April 18, 1906. Center of Town. The Awful Fire after the Shake." Shows much smoke with buildings on fire in the center of the city, after the earthquake. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 236

    Caption: "Seattle Docks," c. 1914. Dock facilities at Seattle, showing a clock tower, as well as the G.T.P., or Grand Trunk Pacific, dock, a shipping pier at the end of Madison Street (the G.T.P. watchtower is visible at the far left of the photograph). This dock, built in 1910, was destroyed by a fire on July 30, 1914. It was rebuilt, but without the watchtower, and served the city until 1964 when it was demolished.

    Date: 1914