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Caption: "South Gardens, Looking East from Tower," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-036.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Otme [sic] Indian School - these children are very scantily dressed. Their clothes are a product of the Maguey plant - Lagunilla, Mex."
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Highway through the Mountains -- Nevada." Mountain scene, with highway snaking through trees in the distance.
Date: 1927
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Caption: "California," c, 1917. The McCarthy's vehicle is squeezed into the tunnel carved through the California Tree, a Giant Sequoia in the Mariposa Grove of Yosemite National Park. The tunnel was cut through the tree in 1895 to facilitate travel on the road into the grove, and also as a tourist attraction. It is now the only living Giant Sequoia with a tunnel cut through it (so-called "tunnel trees"), the others having all fallen.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Call Building," c. 1906. Completed in 1898 and designed by civic leader Claus Spreckels, the Call building on the corner of 3rd and Market streets was one of the first skyscrapers in San Francisco, built to house the San Francisco Call newspaper offices. While the structure withstood the 1906 earthquake, the interior caught fire and sustained considerable damage. After major renovations, the building is today known as The Central Tower.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Riverside Villa Scenes," c. 1915, shows William (standing in water) and Grace McCarthy (in the water) with a group of unidentified people in a boat on the Russian River at Healdsburg.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Avenda [sic] Zapata, Cuernavaca, Mexico."
Date: 1938