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  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 299

    Caption: "Yosemite Falls," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy two unidentified friends pose for a photograph on the trail to Yosemite Falls. Both Upper and Lower Fall can be seen in this photograph. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 003

    Caption: "Conservatory Golden Gate Park," c. 1910. See also 96-07-08-alb03-006, and 96-07-08-alb02-014. The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, originally opened in 1879. After the most recent extensive rehabilitation, the conservatory reopened in 2003 and is a city, state, and national historic landmark.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 172

    Caption: "In the Siskiyou Mountains, Calif.," c. 1910. View of a train trestle, with the last car of a train passing over it.

    Date: 1910