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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 174
    McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 174

    Caption: "City Hall Ruins." An expanded view of the destroyed City Hall after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Stacks and piles of bricks are lined up at the curb of the street, likely to be used for reconstruction.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 399
    McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 399

    Caption: Palace of Fine Arts, Interior beautiful marble effect - Mexico City." Pictured is the interior of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, with the famous mural, Man at the Crossroads, painted by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. The work was originally commissioned for New York's Rockefeller Center in 1933 but was destroyed for its perceived anti-capitalist themes. Rivera recreated it for the Palace of Fine Arts in 1934.

    Date: 1938