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  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 006
    McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 006

    Caption: "Mortar Carriage Damaged in Test - Honolulu," c. 1906.

    Date: 1906

  • Las Virgenes Rancho
    Las Virgenes Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of las Virgenes boundaries. Volume 1, page 110..

    Date: 1833

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 091
    McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 091

    Caption: "Conservatory -- Botanical Gardens -- St. Lewis," c. 1923. Shows the Palm House, built in 1915 to house tropical plants in the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. It was torn down in 1959 to make room for the domed geodesic Climatron building which still stands at the site. See also 96-07-08-alb09- 086.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 143
    McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 143

    No Caption. A view of the Benicia Arsenal, with the store house in the distance. William McCarthy began his career as an inspector of armaments for the U.S. War Department at the Benicia Arsenal in 1903. The arsenal was established in 1851 as the first Ordnance Supply Depot in the West, from which it supplied and supported U.S. troops, from the Civil War through WWII and the Korean War. It was deactivated in 1963. Benicia Arsenal store house in the distance, c. 1905.

    Date: 1905