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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 202

    Caption: "The Battery, Lower Manhattan, New York, N.Y [sic], Aug. 4, 1934." This photograph shows the Manhattan skyline, as well as the Battery, a 25-acre park at the tip of Manhattan Island. The park was named for the artillery batteries that used to protect the city and its harbor from this location.

    Date: 8/4/1934

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 046

    Caption: "Kingsbury Grade -- Nevada." Shows a hairpin turn on the Kingsbury Grade in Douglas County, Nevada. Now part of Nevada State Route 207, the road intersects U.S. Highway 50 near the southeastern corner of Lake Tahoe.

    Date: 1927

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 445

    Caption: "Obregon's tomb, Mexico City." William and Grace McCarthy standing before the monument to General Alvaro Obregon (1880-1928), who was a leader of the Mexican Revolution (1920-1920). Obregon was elected President of post-Revolution Mexico, serving from 1920-1924. In 1928, he was again elected but was assassinated by Jose de Leon Toral, a Roman Catholic who opposed Obregon's policies on religious matters. The monument was completed in 1935 and stands in the San Angel region of Mexico City, in the same location where Obregon was assassinated.

    Date: 1938

  • Quito Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Quito boundaries. Volume 1, page 614.

    Date: 1841