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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 148
    McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 148

    Caption: "Ordnance Corps," c. 1905. A group photograph of the Ordnance Corps at the Benicia Arsenal. The broad mission of the Ordnance Corps was to supply combat weapons and ammunition to U.S. Army forces on the west coast of the United States.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 025
    McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 025

    Caption: "Government Steamer, Thomas.," c. 1980-1912. Shows a small steamship or ferry, its deck occupied by a group of unidentified people.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 141
    McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 141

    Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Gate," c. 1905, Benicia, California. William McCarthy began his career as an inspector of armaments for the U.S. War Department at the Benicia Arsenal in 1903. The arsenal was established in 1851 as the first Ordnance Supply Depot in the West, from which it supplied and supported U.S. troops, from the Civil War through WWII and the Korean War. It was deactivated in 1963.

    Date: 1905