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  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 032

    No Caption: c. 1908-1912. Group of men posing around a 12-inch disappearing gun. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire. Such guns were often used in coastal fortifications.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 093

    Caption: "Oakland City Hall," Oakland, California, c. 1910. Completed in 1879, the building was Oakland's second city hall and served until it was demolished in 1914 to create City Hall Plaza in front of the new City Hall that had been completed that year.

    Date: 1910

  • Memo on Conversation About Ammunitions

    Memorandum from O. J. Jahnsen regarding a conversation about ammunitions on a train

    Date: December 16, 1941

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 202

    *Caption: "Stanford Chapel," c. 1920. Façade of Stanford Memorial Chapel, designed by Charles A. Coolidge and dedicated in 1903. The church was commissioned by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband and the University's founder, Leland Stanford. See also 96-07-08-alb04-215.

    Date: 1920