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Caption: "Coronado Hotel Grounds.," c. 1910. View of the Coronado Hotel, with landscaped grounds in the foreground. At the time it opened in 1888, this hotel was the largest beach resort in the world. The Ballroom Tower, the highest point of the building, is 120 feet tall.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Towering Trees and Cliffs - Yosemite," c. 1917. View of a granite mountain top as viewed through trees on a neighboring peak.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Fotos in San Francisco and Neighboring County's [sic] By Wm. McCarthy." A handwritten label mounted on the first page of the photograph album.
Date: Undated
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Caption: "Louisiana Highway, June 12, 34." A highway in Louisiana recedes into the distance, flanked by tall vegetation.
Date: 6/12/1934
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Caption: "Department of Agriculture - Plant Quarantine Inspection Station - Ft. Yuma. State Department of Public Works, Division of Architecture." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1930. This was one of the first border stations and was situated in desert country; its purpose was to provide a stopping place for inspection of motor traffic coming into California in order to enforce quarantine against insect infestation of California agricultural products. Project for Department of Agriculture.
Date: 1930
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Caption: "The Lagoon," near the Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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No caption, c. 1915. Grace McCarthy and an unidentified woman posing in garden.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Picnic at Fishcamp," c. 1908. A large group of unidentified people enjoying a picnic at Fishcamp, near Yosemite, in Mariposa County.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "Motoring in Solano Co. Calif.," c. 1915. William (driver's seat) and Grace (rear seat, at right) McCarthy posing in an automobile with an unidentified woman.
Date: 1915