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  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 015

    Caption: "Old Geary Street Line -- Last Days Work of our Old Faithful Friend." Photograph of a horse-drawn cable car, on the last day of operation of the Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway. One of the first railways established in San Francisco, the line operated from 1880 until May 1912 when it was taken over by the city and converted to an electric streetcar line.

    Date: 1912-05

  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 002

    Caption: "A Santa Cruz Big Tree," c. 1905, General Grant, located in Santa Cruz Big Tree Grove.

    Date: 1905

  • eichler_f3274_129

    Caption: "State Dept. of Public Works Div. of Architecture - Gymnasium - San Diego State Teachers College." Drawing of Women's Gymnasium by Alfred Eichler. Design by H. S. Hazen, 1932. Built. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1932

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 001a

    This clipping from an unidentified newspaper or newsletter features a 1946 article by A. L. Simon called "How To Run A Bridge." The article discusses the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, opened ten years before the article was written.

    Date: 1946

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2542

    Calic Remedy

    Date: 1895

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 180

    Caption: "George Washingtons [sic] Tomb, Mount Vernon, Virginia, July 22, 1934." The gated entrance to the tomb holding the remains of George Washington are seen in this photograph, overgrown by ivy. Two unidentified people stand at either side of the entry. The brick tomb was constructed after Washington's death in 1799.

    Date: 7/22/1934

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 306

    Caption: "Indian Wigwam," c. 1935. William and Grace McCarthy pose at the entrance to what William labeled a "wigwam," a dwelling of the Ahwahnechee people. The Ahwahnechee (a Native American tribe who traditionally occupied the Yosemite Valley) called the dwellings o-chum. Pine branches were arranged in a tee-pee-like shape and then covered with layered slabs of cedar bark.

    Date: 1935

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0908

    Stoner and Nicholas

    Date: 1882

  • Cañon del Triunfo, or Virgenes Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Cañon del Triunfo, or Virgenes boundaries. Volume 1, page 200.

    Date: 1834

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    Date: undated