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  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 086
    McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 086

    Caption: "San Francisco April 22, 1906. Center of Town." Shows the city center in ruins after the earthquake and fires. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 151
    McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 151

    Caption: "Main [sic] Memorial Statue - Central Park N. Y." c. 1925. The monument was designed by Harold Van Buren Magonile, while the statuary was created by Attilio Piccirilli. The memorial, dedicated in New York City's Central Park in 1913, honors the more than 260 men killed aboard the USS Maine when the ship exploded in Havana's harbor during the Spanish-American War in 1898.

    Date: 1925