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  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 094

    Caption: "Grand canyon -- Yellowstone," c. 1920s. View looking down into canyon, featuring steep terrain. The Yellowstone River can be seen at the lower left.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 138

    Caption: "Another Highway Beggar. Have a bite bruin. Yellowstone Grand Canyon," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 422

    Caption: "Market Day, Toluca, Mexico."

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 109

    Caption: "Column of Progress," shows The Adventurous Bowman (Hermon A. McNeil, sculptor) on top of column, with a four-panel frieze at the base of column (Isadore Konti, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 173

    Caption: "Lake Josephine-Glacier National Park," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 026

    Caption: "U. S. 10" New Model Gun Carriage.," c. 1908-1912. Side view of a coastal defense disappearing gun carriage, without the gun barrel installed. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 130

    Caption: "View from Inspiration Point. Grand Canyon-Yellowstone National Park," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 208

    Caption: "The Fairmont," c. 1906. View of the Fairmont Hotel, a luxury hotel in San Francisco. Although construction was mostly finished in 1906, the advent of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of that year damaged the hotel's interior and delayed opening until 1907. It was the first hotel in what is now the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain. In 1945, the San Francisco hotel was host to an international conference that culminated in the formation of the United Nations.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 333

    No caption, c. 1915. William (far left) and Grace (second from left) standing with two unidentified friends near a river or pond bank, likely in the vicinity of Blue Rock Springs, Solano County.

    Date: 1915