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  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 277

    No Photograph 277 exists in Album 05, the number having apparently been skipped when the photographs were labeled.

    Date: undated

  • Chupucanes, or Monte del Diablo Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Chupucanes, or Monte del Diablo boundaries. Volume 1, page 140.

    Date: 1827

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 267a

    No caption. Commemorative U.S. Postage stamp issued in 1933 for Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition, celebrating the one-hundred year anniversary of Chicago's incorporation. This stamp features the Exposition's Federal Building. Its three tall columns represent each branch of the federal government.

    Date: 1933

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 315

    Caption: "The China Clippers [sic] First Start Across the Pacific Ocean. Nov. 22, 1935." View of the China Clipper, a Martin M-130 four-engine flying boat constructed for Pan American Airways in 1935. One of the largest planes of its time, the China Clipper flew the first transpacific commercial airmail flight between San Francisco and Manila in the Philippines. The China Clipper was destroyed in a crash ten years later, in January 1945, at the Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

    Date: 11/22/1935