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No caption: Grace McCarthy (far left) poses with four unidentified women in front of a small body of water, c. 1925.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Summit -- Tahoe, Placerville Highway." William and Grace McCarthy standing in front of a small wood shed, likely along what is now U.S. Route 50 east of Placerville.
Date: 1927
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No Caption: A decal for the "Banff Springs Hotel, Banff Alta, Canadian Pacific," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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No Caption: An unidentified young girl sitting atop a donkey, with Grace McCarthy standing beside them at Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Totem Pole -- Seattle, Wash.," c. 1915. View of the Tlingit totem pole in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The totem pole was stolen in 1899 by a group of businessmen, and erected in the square, then known as Pioneer Place. An arson destroyed this pole in 1938, but it was later replaced by another carved by the Tlingit tribe (who were also finally paid for the original pole).
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Market Street Burning." Fire engulfing buildings in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, including the Call Building.
Date: 4/18/1906
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No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people in swim suits posing on a river bank. William McCarthy is standing in the middle row, third from the left.
Date: 1920
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No caption. Commemorative stamp celebrating the upcoming Golden Gate International Exposition, c. 1938. The Exposition, which ran from February through October in 1939 and May to September in 1940, celebrated the completion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (1936) and the Golden Gate Bridge (1937). More than ten million people attended in 1939, while an additional five million visited in 1940. The Exposition was held on an artificial island created by dredging more than 19 million cubic yards of material from the bottom of the bay. The federal government completed this dredging and fill, intending for the site, called Treasure Island, to become a municipal airport after the exposition. However, the advent of World War II resulted in the U.S. Navy taking over the site, holding it until for military purposes until 1997.
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Court of the Universe Colonnades," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-041.
Date: 1915