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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 033b

    One side of a flier handed out by the San Antonio Reptile Garden in the mid-1930s entitled "Reptile Facts." The Reptile Garden opened in the 1930s as a fundraising facility for the Witte Museum. The Garden featured turtle races, snake handling demonstrations, fried rattlesnake meat, and rattlesnake dinner fund raisers. It also became a research center for the use of antivenom. The Garden closed in the early 1940s, its live snakes donated to the San Antonio Zoo.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 202

    No Caption: shows William McCarthy in a swimsuit near what appears to be a pond in an unidentified location, c. 1915.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 038

    Caption: "San Jacinto Battle Ground -- Tex, June 11 34." View of the gated entry to the San Jacinto Battleground. The site was the location of the Battle of San Jacinto, in which the Texan Army (led by Sam Houston) defeated the Mexican army (led by General Antonio López de Santa Anna), paving the way for the formation of the Republic of Texas. A Texas Historic Site, the battleground was also declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960.

    Date: 6/11/1934

  • Map of the Gold Regions of California

    The image is of a lithograph that depicts the various routes to California from Eastern United States via Panama and Cape Horn.

    Date: 1849

  • eichler_f3274_165

    Drawing of Home Making Cottage, Mesa Campus, Santa Barbara State College. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Not built. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1932