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  McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 166

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  Caption: "Market Street Burning." A view of the Call Building on Market and 3rd Streets on fire after the 1906 earthquake, with people and horses in the foreground. 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

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  McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 132

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  Caption: "Havana Water Front -- Havana, Cuba. July 4, 1934." View of the waterfront at Havana from across the harbor.

  Date: 7/4/1934

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  McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 245

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  Caption: "Yosemite," c. 1917. View of Yosemite Valley, taken from the valley floor, with Half Dome rising at the right. .

  Date: 1917

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  McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 148

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  Caption: "Ordnance Corps," c. 1905. A group photograph of the Ordnance Corps at the Benicia Arsenal. The broad mission of the Ordnance Corps was to supply combat weapons and ammunition to U.S. Army forces on the west coast of the United States.

  Date: 1905