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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 022
    McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 022

    Caption: "The Casino -- Agua Caliente, Mexico -- May 20, 34." View of the exterior of the casino at Agua Caliente Casino and Resort. Designed by Wayne McAllister, the resort opened in Tijuana in 1928. It closed only a few years later, in 1935, when Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas outlawed gambling.

    Date: 5/20/1934

  • Cotate Rancho
    Cotate Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Cotate boundaries. Volume 2, page 116.

    Date: 1844

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 316
    McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 316

    Caption: "Yosemite Falls - View From Ledge Trail," c. 1917. Yosemite Falls in the distance, as seen from across the valley on the Ledge Trail above Half Dome Village. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.

    Date: 1917