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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 011
    McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 011

    Caption: "Lancaster Battery, Presidio," c. 1906, shows a distant view of Lancaster Battery. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 237
    McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 237

    Caption: "Nisqually Glacier, Mount Rainier - Note the ice on slope slowly breaking up," c, 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 056
    McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 056

    Caption: "Court of the Four Seasons," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 141
    McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 141

    Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Gate," c. 1905, Benicia, California. 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.

    Date: 1905