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  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 075
    McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 075

    Caption: "Yacht Harbor," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 071
    McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 071

    Caption: "San Diego Exposition," c. 1915-1916. View of an artificial lagoon, with the Commerce and Industries Building (tower at left, now called Casa de Balboa) and the Foreign Arts Building (tower at right, now called the House of Hospitality). The Panama-California Exposition was held in San Diego in 1915 and 1916 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. It was smaller in scale and less well-funded than the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in 1915 in San Francisco. See also 96-07-08-alb04-111, and 112.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 172
    McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 172

    Caption: "Daybreak Beach." Beach scene in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island. A gazebo stands at the edge of the cliff leading down to the beach.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 321
    McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 321

    Caption: "Golden Gate Bridge. Pedestrian Day. May 27, 1937." View of crowds walking across the just-completed Golden Gate Bridge as part of Pedestrian Day. Pedestrian Day kicked off the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta celebrating the opening of the now-iconic bridge. Approximately 200,000 people walked or roller-skated across the bridge during the Pedestrian Day festivities, held the day before the bridge opened to vehicular traffic.

    Date: 5/27/1937