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  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 095

    Caption: "City Hall Ruins," shows the gutted San Francisco City Hall after the 1906 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 07, Photograph 081

    No Caption: Fountain of the Earth, (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-064.

    Date: 1915

  • Photo 025

    Group of people posed with automobile

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 017

    Caption: "Coronado Hotel, May 20, 1934." View of the Coronado Hotel, with sand dunes in the foreground. At the time it opened in 1888, this hotel was the largest beach resort in the world. The Ballroom Tower, the highest point of the building, is 120 feet tall.

    Date: 5/20/1934

  • Cañada Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Cañada boundaries. Volume 2, page 185.

    Date: 1843