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Caption: "Interstate Commerce Buildings, Washington, D.C. July 27, 1934, Taken from Washington Monument." Bird's eye view of the Department of Labor Building complex (which also included the offices of the Interstate Commerce Commission), constructed between 1932-1934.
Date: 7/27/1934
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No caption. William McCarthy and an unidentified woman and boy posing in and around a small go-cart in front of the John Shields residence, in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.
Date: 1934
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Caption: "Yosemite Falls," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy two unidentified friends pose for a photograph on the trail to Yosemite Falls. Both Upper and Lower Fall can be seen in this photograph. 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
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Caption: "Division Headquarters. Camp Lewis, Wash.," c. 1918. Shows the two-story building that served as Division Headquarters for Camp Lewis in Washington. The Camp was established by the U.S. Army in 1917, as part of the U.S.'s preparations for eventual entry into World War I. Rapid construction had the camp ready to house 60,000 men within a few months. The site is still in use as a military facility, under the name Fort Lewis.
Date: 1918
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Caption: "Yellowstone Transportation Bus," c. 1923. William and Grace McCarthy (second row from the back, middle and right-hand seats) and a group of unidentified people stop for a photograph while sitting in an eleven-passenger, open-roofed touring bus in Yellowstone National Park. The touring bus, likely made by White Motor Company, was one of a fleet of such vehicles maintained by the Yellowstone Park Transportation Company.
Date: 1923