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  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 051
    McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 051

    Caption: "Devils Gate -- Nevada -- Elevation 7540 Feet." Devil's Gate is a rock formation near Silver City, Nevada. In the nineteenth century a portion of the formation was blasted away to create enough space for a wagon road, which became a toll road serving as an entryway to the Nevada silver fields.

    Date: 1927

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 010
    McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 010

    Caption: "President Taft in Golden Gate Park." See also 96-07-08-alb01-004, with caption: "President Taft in the Park." October 14, 1911. President William Howard Taft in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which was slated to open January 1915.

    Date: 1911

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1453b
    Old Series Trademark No. 1453b

    Nux Life Restorer

    Date: 1886

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0647
    Old Series Trademark No. 0647

    W. W.

    Date: 1880

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1861a
    Old Series Trademark No. 1861a

    Electrozone

    Date: 1890

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 078
    McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 078

    Caption: "Nudist Colony - San Diego Exposition," c. 1935. The Zoro Garden Nudist Colony, named for the Persian mystic, Zoroaster, was an unusual and controversial attraction that featured partially nude men and women performing as nudists. Exposition visitors were charged twenty-five cents to watch the "nudists" perform ceremonies and other activities. Today, the sunken Zoro Garden in Balboa Park is a butterfly garden.

    Date: 1935