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  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 142

    Caption: "Toll Gate -- St Helena Mountain.," c. 1920. Toll gate consists of a long wooden spar across the road, with a small building to the right. Grace McCarthy is standing next to an automobile at the gate. The St. Helena Toll Road, now part of California State Route 29, connected the Napa Valley with Lake County. It was built in 1868, and purchased by the State of California in 1925.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 073a

    No caption. This commemorative ten-cent stamp was affixed to the same page as Photographs 073 and 074. With "United States Postage, Lindbergh Air Mail" written across the top, it shows the biplane Spirit of St. Louis, over a drawing of the Atlantic Ocean between New York and Paris. Issued in June 1927 as a tribute to Charles Lindbergh, who made the first non-stop flight between Paris and New York in May of that year.

    Date: 1927

  • Old Series Trademark No. 3457
  • Old Series Trademark No. 2609

    Merchants Express Co.

    Date: 1895

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2674

    John Wieland's Extra Pale, California Bottling and Co.

    Date: 1895