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  McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 038

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  Caption: "San Diego Mission," with small photograph inset of unidentified landscape, c. 1905. See also 96-07-08-alb08-228 with caption: "Old Mission, San Diego." William McCarthy standing before the dilapidated church building of Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá (Mission San Diego). The first mission established in California, Mission San Diego was founded by Father Junipero Serra in 1769.

  Date: 1905

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  McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 228

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  Caption: "Court House, Port Townsend, Washington," c. 1935. The Jefferson County Courthouse in Port Townsend, Washington, was built in 1891 (W.A. Ritchie, architect) in Romanesque architectural style.

  Date: 1935

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  McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 006

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  Caption: "Main Street, Watsonville," c. 1906. A view of a sparsely populated Main Street, with buggies and people in the distance.

  Date: 1906

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  McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 089

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  Caption: "Sea Coast Guns.," c. 1908-1912. View of a disappearing coastal defense gun, with its carriage. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.

  Date: 1908