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Caption: "In the Siskiyou Mountains, Calif.," c. 1910. View of a train trestle, with the last car of a train passing over it.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Yosemite Falls," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy two unidentified friends pose for a photograph on the trail to Yosemite Falls. Both Upper and Lower Fall can be seen in this photograph. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Conservatory Golden Gate Park," c. 1910. See also 96-07-08-alb03-006, and 96-07-08-alb02-014. The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, originally opened in 1879. After the most recent extensive rehabilitation, the conservatory reopened in 2003 and is a city, state, and national historic landmark.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Snow scenery, Fort Worden, Wash.," c. 1908. Overview of Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington, on Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1898. By 1902 it was serving as an active U.S. Army base. Fort Worden was part of the so-called "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. The U.S. sold the property to the State of Washington in 1957. In 1973, the fort and surrounding area opened as Fort Worden State Park.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "Torpedo Boat Coronado, San Diego Bay," c. 1915.
Date: 1915
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No caption. William McCarthy and an unidentified woman and boy posing in and around a small go-cart in front of the John Shields residence, in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.
Date: 1934
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Caption: "Work of Mounting Big Guns, Point Benito [sic]," c.1906. This may actually be Point Bonita in the San Francisco Bay.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Ferry Building," c. 1906. A view of the San Francisco Ferry Building (A. Page Brown, architect) during repairs from the 1906 earthquake. The Beaux Arts structure is located on San Francisco's Embarcadero and features a 245 foot tall clock tower, with four clock dials, each 22 feet in diameter.
Date: 1906
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No Caption: The Machinery Palace at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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No caption, c. 1920. William McCarthy (far right) and two unidentified women, all in swimsuits.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "Oregon Building," features massive cut logs used as columns for the state of Oregon's presentation building at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "South Gardens at Night," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Jefferson Square," c. 1906. A view of tents in Jefferson Square in San Francisco, likely for refugees who were left homeless after the earthquake and fires.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Pajaro River Trestle," c. 1906. Shows a railroad trestle bridge over the Pajaro River in California's Central Coast region. The bridge is seated on concrete footings.
Date: 1906