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Caption: "Congressional Library -- Washington D.C.," c. 1920. Interior photograph of entrance to the Library of Congress.
Date: 1934
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No caption. Two unidentified boys hugging a dog in front of the John Shields residence in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.
Date: 1934
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Caption: "Kindergarten Unit. Section looking South." Color drawing of California School for the Deaf at Berkeley. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler, 1944; built in 1946. Project for Department of Education.
Date: 1944
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Caption: "Indian over 100 years old," c. 1905. Elderly man, possibly of Native American ethnicity, standing in front of a barn. Taken around 1905 in San Diego near the Old Mission, If William McCarthy's description is accurate, this person was born while California was under Spanish rule. Possibly of the Kumeyaay tribe, whose members had lived in the area long before the Spanish arrived, he may have lived and worked at Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá (Mission San Diego) or at a nearby Indian village.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Residence in Chapultepec Heights - Mexico City."
Date: 1938
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Captions: "Northeast Elevation" and "Northwest Elev." Watercolor sketches by Alfred Eichler depicting elevations for preliminary design of dormitory, Folsom State Prison, c. 1933. From stamp on drawing: "Sketch, dormitory, Chinese & Negroe, Folsom State Prison." Project for Department of Corrections.
Date: 1933
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Caption: "Bok Singing Tower, Lake Wales -- Florida, June 26, 1934." View of the Bok Singing Tower in the Bok Tower Gardens, a 250-acre contemplative garden and bird sanctuary dedicated in 1929. The 205-foot-tall tower, designed by architect Milton B. Medary, was completed by February 1929. It features Gothic Revival and Art Deco detailing. A 60-bell carillon can be played by a clavier (keyboard) in the bell chamber.
Date: 6/26/1934
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Caption: "Pasa [sic] Robles Hotel, May 22, 1935." View of the Hotel el Paso de Robles (pass of the oaks). This resort hotel opened in 1891, and featured a variety of amenities including a mineral hot springs "plunge" bath. The hotel burned down in 1940, and was replaced by the building that is still in operation today as the Paso Robles Inn.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Riverside Villa Aug 15, 1915," shows William (seated at center) and Grace McCarthy (standing eighth from right) with friends and family at the riverside Villa resort on the Russian River at Healdsburg.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Butcharts Gardens, Victoria, B.C." c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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No Caption: c. 1910. Grace McCarthy posing in a garden with an armful of flowers.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Victoria Park. Niagara Falls, Canada, Sept. 10, 1934." Broad roadway flanked by manicured grounds and trees, running through Queen Victoria Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1888, the park is operated today by the Niagara Parks Commission.
Date: 9/10/1934
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Caption: "Butcharts Gardens, Victoria, B.C." c. 1935, shows William McCarthy standing in the gardens.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "New Cell Block - Folsom State Prison. Division of Architecture, Sacramento." Color drawing of Cell Block #3, Folsom State Prison; design by Alfred Eichler, April 5, 1934. Project for Department of Corrections.
Date: 1934
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