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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 181.0

    Caption: "Tamalpais Views," is a label for photographs 179 - 184 in album 6, showing a variety of views of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County.

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 121

    Caption: "6" Howitzer," c. 1906. A piece of artillery characterized by a relatively short barrel, used for firing shells on high trajectories at low velocities.

    Date: 1906

  • Memo on Contra Costa

    Office memorandum from Margaret Billings to Margaret S. Watkins regarding Contra Costa Defense Council

    Date: January 5, 1942

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1661

    Black Aztec Coal

    Date: 1888

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 244

    Caption: "Starrett Tool Works, Athol, Massachusetts. Sept. 6, 1934." The Starrett Tool Works was founded in 1880, when Laroy Sunderland Starrett started a tool shop in Athol. He later expanded the facility, until by 1906 the company employed more than 1,000 workers in the manufacture of precision tools. By the time Starrett died in 1922, the company had achieved global recognition, establishing offices in more than a dozen countries. Starrett is still in operation today.

    Date: 9/6/1934

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2137

    Sweet Clover

    Date: 1892

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1409b

    Haverly Club-Champions of California [Baseball team]

    Date: 1887

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0876

    Boss

    Date: 1882

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1246

    Imperial, Banquet, Justice, etc.

    Date: 1885

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 154

    Caption: "Bamboo Grows 12 to 16 Inches Per Day and 50 or 60 Feet High in 6 or 7 Weeks. Bamboo Propagating Farm, Burrows, Georgia. July 13, 1934." Grace McCarthy stands next to an automobile on the side of a road under trees. The other side of the road is flanked by rows of bamboo plants. This may be part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Savannah Plant Introduction Station, established in approximately 1919 in the Burroughs Station area southwest of Savannah. The station remained open until 1979, when it was closed by USDA budgetary downsizing. The property was subsequently deeded to the University of Georgia, in 1983.

    Date: 7/13/1934