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  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 067

    Caption: "Mission-San Diego," c. 1935, shows Mission San Diego de Alcala, the first of twenty-one missions built by the Spanish Franciscans, and founded in 1769 by Father Junipero Serra.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 022

    Caption: "Ordnance Machine Shop. Presidio," c. 1906. William McCarthy (far right) and two unidentified men standing in front of the ordnance machine shop at the Presidio.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 340

    No Caption: William and Grace McCarthy standing near Mirror Lake at Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 226

    Caption: "Gatling gun," c. 1905. three unidentified men and William McCarthy (third from right) stand near a Gatling gun. The Gatling gun was an early rapid-fire, crank-turned weapon first used during combat in the Civil War. Developed in 1861 by Dr. Richard J. Gatling, the weapon was commonly used during the late nineteenth century before being superseded by newer, more modern guns.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph x003

    No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy is feeding a bear standing upright, likely in Yosemite National Park. This photograph was loose in the box with Album 11.

    Date: 1935