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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 060

    Caption: "The Chutes, S.F," c. 1905. View of the Fulton Street Chutes, a 350-foot water slide. Boats or toboggans careened down the slide into a man-made lake at the bottom. Such "chutes" were very popular throughout the U.S. and Europe at the turn of the century. The Fulton Street Chutes operated from 1902-1907 as part of an amusement park area that also featured the "Circle Swing Flying Machine" (also visible in the photograph), a theater, bar, merry-go-round, and a zoo.

    Date: 1905

  • Tularcitos Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Tularcitos boundaries. Volume 1, page 206.

    Date: 1833

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 284

    Caption: "Soldier Life," c. 1910. A view of soldiers on horseback, pulling heavy artillery up an embankment, at an unidentified location.

    Date: 1910

  • Old Series Trademark No. 2617

    O. C. monogram

    Date: 1895