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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 063
    McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 063

    Caption: "Causeway Crossing Lake Pontchartrain -- New Orleans -- June 19, 34." The concrete deck of the Maestri Bridge (also called the Pontchartrain Bridge, the Five Mile Bridge, or the Watson-Williams Pontchartrain Bridge) stretches into the distance over Lake Pontchartrain in this photograph. Built in 1928 as the first permanent crossing of Lake Pontchartrain, it was also the longest concrete bridge in the world at the time of its construction. The bridge, almost five miles long, spans the lake between New Orleans and Slidell, Louisiana.

    Date: 6/17/1934

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 001
    McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 001

    Caption: "Government building, Victoria, B.C.," c. 1908-1912. View of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria. Designed by Francis Rattenbury, the construction began on the complex in 1893 and finished four years later. The buildings were first used in 1898.

    Date: 1908