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  McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 036

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  Caption: "Mary." Elderly woman with shawl and metal pail standing in front of fence.

  Date: 1927

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  McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 269

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  Caption: "San Pedro Harbor," c. 1910. View of San Pedro Bay, with harbor facilities such as wharves and cranes in the background. San Pedro Bay was declared the official port for Los Angeles in 1897.

  Date: 1910

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  Old Series Trademark No. 0682

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  Scandinavian Fisherman's Brand

  Date: 1881

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  McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 060

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  Caption: "The Chutes, S.F," c. 1905. View of the Fulton Street Chutes, a 350-foot water slide. Boats or toboggans careened down the slide into a man-made lake at the bottom. Such "chutes" were very popular throughout the U.S. and Europe at the turn of the century. The Fulton Street Chutes operated from 1902-1907 as part of an amusement park area that also featured the "Circle Swing Flying Machine" (also visible in the photograph), a theater, bar, merry-go-round, and a zoo.

  Date: 1905

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  McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 284

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  Caption: "Soldier Life," c. 1910. A view of soldiers on horseback, pulling heavy artillery up an embankment, at an unidentified location.

  Date: 1910