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  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 216
    McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 216

    Caption: "Venice," c. 1915, shows the site of Villa City Boating, where visitors to the resort seaside village of Venice could purchase gondola rides on the canals to visit the town. The seaside resort was founded by tobacco millionaire, Abbot Kinney in 1905, and designed to be like the namesake Italian city.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 057
    McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 057

    Caption: "City Parkway -- New Orleans. June 16, 34." A row of palm trees interspersed with deciduous trees runs down the middle of this road in New Orleans.

    Date: 6/16/1934

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 140
    McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 140

    Caption: "Fort Columbia, Wash.," c. 1910. Fort Columbia, built between 1896 and 1904, sits on Chinook Point overlooking the Columbia River. It is part of the Three Fort Harbor Defense System protecting the mouth of the river from enemy incursion or attack (the other forts being Oregon's Fort Stevens and Washington's Fort Canby). Fort Columbia was decommissioned after World War II, and is now the site of a Washington State Park.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 356
    McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 356

    Caption: "Long Beach - Calif.," c. 1935, shows sunbathers at the beach at Long Beach.

    Date: 1935