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  Old Series Trademark No. 2013

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  Lightning Fluid Polish

  Date: 1891

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  McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 102

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  Caption: "U. S. 10" Gun, Firing Position.," c. 1905. William McCarthy standing next to a 10" disappearing gun, raised to its firing position. 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: 1905

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  Old Series Trademark No. 2444

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  Rockaway

  Date: 1894

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  McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 168

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  Caption, c. 1905. Sixteen camels pull the Ringling Brothers Egyptian Circus Wagon down a street in Santa Rosa in this photograph. The Ringling Brothers Circus first came to Santa Rosa in 1903. The traveling circus became an annual event in the town for the next two decades.

  Date: 1905