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  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 036

    Caption: "Mary." Elderly woman with shawl and metal pail standing in front of fence.

    Date: 1927

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 318

    Image withheld due to copyright considerations. For more information, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk at ArchivesWeb@sos.ca.gov or (916) 653-2246. Caption: "San Francisco, Down Town and Bay Bridge. Feb. 1, 1938." Postcard showing what appears to be an artist's rendition of downtown San Francisco and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

    Date: 2/1/1938

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 060

    Caption: "The Chutes, S.F," c. 1905. View of the Fulton Street Chutes, a 350-foot water slide. Boats or toboggans careened down the slide into a man-made lake at the bottom. Such "chutes" were very popular throughout the U.S. and Europe at the turn of the century. The Fulton Street Chutes operated from 1902-1907 as part of an amusement park area that also featured the "Circle Swing Flying Machine" (also visible in the photograph), a theater, bar, merry-go-round, and a zoo.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 227

    Caption: "POINT LOMA BEACH, San Diego." View of rocky cliffs and narrow, rocky beach at their base, with surf swirling just offshore.

    Date: 1905