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  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 192

    Caption: "Columbia River Scene," c. 1910. Train tracks running into the distance with the Columbia River to the right.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 070

    Caption: "Antlers Hotel - Colorado Springs," c. 1923. A busy street scene in Colorado Springs, with the Antlers Hotel rising in the background. Built in 1901 to replace a previous building lost in a fire, this Italian Renaissance structure was torn down in 1967 and replaced with a fourteen-floor hotel, which still stands today.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 306

    No Caption: William and Grace McCarthy standing on a rock near a waterfall at Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 282

    Caption: "Soldier Life," c. 1910. Unidentified man firing heavy artillery at unidentified location.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 182

    Caption: "Capitol Building, Washington, D. C. July 23, 1934." View of the domed United States Capitol, housing both the Senate and House of Representatives. Constructed between 1793 and 1800 and designed by architect William Thornton, the building has undergone several expansions, including the addition of the wedding-cake-style dome in the 1850s.

    Date: 7/23/1934

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 151

    Caption: "Main [sic] Memorial Statue - Central Park N. Y." c. 1925. The monument was designed by Harold Van Buren Magonile, while the statuary was created by Attilio Piccirilli. The memorial, dedicated in New York City's Central Park in 1913, honors the more than 260 men killed aboard the USS Maine when the ship exploded in Havana's harbor during the Spanish-American War in 1898.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 101

    Caption: "Alligator Farm -- Miami -- Florida. July 1, 1934." View of a holding pen at an alligator farm, with over a dozen alligators sunbathing.

    Date: 7/1/1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 126

    Caption: "Main [sic] Memorial, ial [sic -- cut off in original photograph] Monument and National Hotel. Havana. July 4, 34." Designed by McKim, Mead and White, the Hotel Nacional in Havana opened in 1930. In the foreground is the Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine, two columns topped by an eagle with outstretched wings, built in 1925 to memorialize the American sailors who died in an explosion on the USS Maine in 1898. The eagle and other features of the monument were removed in 1961 as symbols of imperialism.

    Date: 7/4/1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 210

    Caption: "Main Entrance, Radio City or Rockefeller Center, N.Y. Aug 11, 1934." William McCarthy standing in front of the Prometheus sculpture in Rockefeller Center. The gilded bronze statue, designed by sculptor Paul Manship, was erected in 1934 in the middle of New York's Rockefeller Center.

    Date: 8/11/1934

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 145

    Caption: "Buddha" statue within the Japan Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 149

    Caption: "Festival Hall," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-027.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 046

    Caption: "Rainbow in the Mist of Lower Falls," c. 1923. A rainbow over Lower Yellowstone Falls appears as an arch of mist in this black-and-white photograph.

    Date: 1923