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  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 243
    McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 243

    Caption: "Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City -- Utah.," c. 1916. View of the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Truman O. Angell, architect) in Salt Lake City, Utah, dedicated in 1893. The Brigham Young Monument (also known as the Pioneer Monument) stands at the left. Designed by Cyrus Edwin Dallin, this statue commemorating one of the founders of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints was first displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and moved to its post at Main and South Temple Streets in Salt Lake City in 1897.

    Date: 1916

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 133
    McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 133

    No Caption: This postcard shows a view of the façade of the Government Building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Held in Seattle to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest, the fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Although most of the fair's buildings have since been destroyed, several of them now serve as part of the University of Washington campus.

    Date: 1909