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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 042

    Caption: "A Louisiana Plantation Home. June 13, 34." A single-story residence featuring a long porch with paired columns, set back from the road. Picturesque trees dripping with Spanish moss bracket the home.

    Date: 6/13/1934

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 300

    No caption. A close-up view of a piece of unidentified heavy artillery.

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph x006

    Caption: "Delaware & Hudson R.R. Exhibit. Chicago. Sept. 21, 1934. First Locomotive to Operate on an American Railroad, August 8, 1829." View of a replica of the Stourbridge Lion, the first steam locomotive to operate in the U.S., on lines built by the Delaware and Hudson Railway (formerly the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company). The replica was displayed at the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition, celebrating Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. This photograph was loose in the box with Album 11.

    Date: 9/21/1934