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  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 290

    Caption: "California," c, 1917. The McCarthy's vehicle is squeezed into the tunnel carved through the California Tree, a Giant Sequoia in the Mariposa Grove of Yosemite National Park. The tunnel was cut through the tree in 1895 to facilitate travel on the road into the grove, and also as a tourist attraction. It is now the only living Giant Sequoia with a tunnel cut through it (so-called "tunnel trees"), the others having all fallen.

    Date: 1917

  • Schedule II and Volume IV

    The Census of 1852 collection includes enumerations of California's 32 counties, arranged into 126 volumes. Schedule I enumerated the county's inhabitants, while schedule II enurmerated economic production. Many pages of this volume are damaged.

    Date: 1852

  • Nietos Addition Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Nietos Addition boundaries. Volume 2, page 205.

    Date: 1846