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Caption: "Delaware & Hudson R.R. Exhibit. Chicago. Sept. 21, 1934. First Locomotive to Operate on an American Railroad, August 8, 1829." View of a replica of the Stourbridge Lion, the first steam locomotive to operate in the U.S., on lines built by the Delaware and Hudson Railway (formerly the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company). The replica was displayed at the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition, celebrating Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. This photograph was loose in the box with Album 11.
Date: 9/21/1934
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No Caption: Two girls riding a pony with another girl standing beside them at Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Camp Life -- Chino Calif." William and Grace McCarthy laughing as they remove their shoes in preparation for getting into a bed situated under a tree in a yard or garden.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Unloading Bananas from Steamer at New Orleans, June 16 34." Conveyor belt, and workers unloading bunches of bananas from a cargo ship.
Date: 6/16/1934
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Caption: "Mallet Articulated Compound Locomotive," Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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No Caption: A small white commemorative bookmark with embroidered golden poppies tied with blue ribbon and blue lettering: "Pan. Pac. Int. Exp. 1915."
Date: 1915
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Caption: "The Park Music Stand," c.1906. Façade of the Golden Gate Park Bandstand, which shows some damage, possibly from the 1906 earthquake.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "London Guarantee & Wrigley Bldg. Chicago," c. 1923. This photograph, taken at street level, features the London Guarantee Building (with the small cupola still under construction at its top) and the Wrigley Building (just to the right of the London Guarantee Building). The London Guarantee Building (also called the London Guaranty and Accident Building), designed by Alfred S. Alschuler, was completed in 1923. The Wrigley Building, constructed by the famous chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr., consists of two towers. The south tower was completed in 1921, while the north tower was finished in 1924 (you can make out construction scaffolding on the top of the tower in this photograph).
Date: 1923
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No caption, c. 1915. William and Grace McCarthy posing together in a garden. See also 96-07-08-alb04-250, and 96-07-08-alb05-090, 091, 092, and 096.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Sam Browns [sic] botanical garden, Huichihuayan, Mexico. Coffee, vanilla, bananas, and many tropical fruits are grown in this garden."
Date: 1938