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Caption: "Genius of Creation Monument," (Daniel Chester French, sculptor), in the Avenue of Progress at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-092.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Coronado Tent City," c. 1915-1916. Grace McCarthy and two unidentified people in an automobile near a row of small beach shacks with thatched roofs and striped fabric walls and doorways. The Coronado Hotel is visible in the background. Established in 1900 for travelers who could not afford to stay in the resort hotel, the Coronado Tent City consisted of a grid of streets lined with furnished tents, near the sea shore. It also featured restaurants, a library, soda fountain, theater, bandstand, and other recreational facilities.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Spanish Club and Street Car -- Havana -- Cuba. July 4, 34." Street Car #116 rolls through the center of this photograph, with one of the elaborate towers of Centro Gallago, now called "Gran Teatro de La Habana," visible in the background.
Date: 7/4/1934
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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
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Caption: "Beauty Camp - Laytonville, Calif. Isn't it ducky? Flock of wild ducks being fed," c. 1935, shows William McCarthy feeding a flock of wild ducks.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Market St. S.F. Calif." See also 96-07-08-alb05-136, with caption: "Market St. Sept 9. 1910 S.F." Market Street in San Francisco, decked with bunting and flags for California's Admissions Day, the anniversary of the Golden State's entry as a state in the U.S.
Date: 1909
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Caption: "The Pioneer" (Solon Borglum, sculptor) in the Court of Palms at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Alamos y Agua Caliente boundaries. Volume 2, page 199.
Date: 1845