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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 166

    Caption: "Market Street Burning." A view of the Call Building on Market and 3rd Streets on fire after the 1906 earthquake, with people and horses in the foreground. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 076

    Caption: "Oklahawaha [sic] River at Silver Springs -- Florida, June 24, 34." View of a placid Ocklawaha River flowing by a lush park on the bank opposite the photographer.

    Date: 6/24/1934

  • Memo on Necessary Work Crews

    Memo from W. K. Shaughnessy to All WCCA Control Stations regarding work crews necessary at assembly centers to be filled by evacuees

    Date: April 16, 1942

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 259

    Caption: "On The Hike To Vernal Falls [sic]," c. 1917. William McCarthy poses for a photograph on the trail to Vernal Fall in this photograph.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 046

    Caption: "Russian River -- Healdsburg," c. 1914. William and Grace McCarthy in a rowboat on the Russian River near Healdsburg.

    Date: 1914

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 378a

    Caption: "We stopped at Gandy Courts." A section of a tourist informational brochure describing the village of Tamazunchale, in "the heart of the Huastecan Indian country."

    Date: 1938