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  • Old Series Trademark No. 1531

    Belle of Sonoma

    Date: 1887

  • Old Series Trademark No. 3775

    Eagle Brand Tannery

    Date: 1900

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 026

    Caption: "U. S. 10" New Model Gun Carriage.," c. 1908-1912. Side view of a coastal defense disappearing gun carriage, without the gun barrel installed. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.

    Date: 1908

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2322

    California's Mid-Winter Fair Illustrated

    Date: 1893

  • Old Series Trademark No. 0461

    Fine Puff

    Date: 1878

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 209

    Caption: "General U.S. Grants [sic] Tomb, Riverside Drive. New York, Aug. 10, 1934." The remains of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the U.S. and Commanding General of the Union Army during the last year of the Civil War, were laid to rest in this elaborate tomb. Grant died in 1885, but construction on the tomb did not begin until 1891. Grant's remains were transferred to the tomb on April 27, 1897.

    Date: 8/10/1934