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  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 007

    Caption: "Market Street S.F," c. 1935. A bustling Market Street scene with many people, cars and trollies. San Francisco's Ferry Building can be seen in the distance at the far right.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 217

    Caption: "Atlantic City," c. 1925. Grace McCarthy sits center with two unidentified women in a wheeled electric conveyance, in front of the Traymore Hotel on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

    Date: 1925

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 024

    Caption: "Sunset Lake - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Yellowstone National Park's Sunset Lake is a shallow thermal pool in the Black Sand Basin. Its name is derived from the yellow and orange bands of bacteria and algae at its edges.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 083a

    No Caption: A 1935 three-cent U.S. Postage stamp, featuring Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam, which was constructed between 1931 and 1936. The concrete arch-gravity dam is located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between Clark County, Nevada, and Mojave County, Arizona. A National Historic Landmark, the dam provides hydroelectric power, water storage, flood control, and recreation at Lake Mead, the reservoir created by the dam's construction.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 190

    Caption: "Old Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. July 28, 1934." Taken from across a park, this photograph shows the Smithsonian complex rising above surrounding trees. Built in 1855, it houses the Smithsonian Institute's administrative offices and information center.

    Date: 7/28/1934

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 097

    No caption, c. 1915. William and Grace McCarthy posing together in a garden. See also 96-07-08-alb04-250, and 96-07-08-alb05-090, 091, 092, and 096.

    Date: 1915