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  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph x004
    McCarthy Album 11, Photograph x004

    Caption: "Sept. 21, 1934, Baltimore and Ohio R.R. Exhibit. Chicago Fair." Shows a replica of the Tom Thumb, an early steam locomotive built by Peter Cooper in 1830 for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. This replica was displayed at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, a world's fair celebrating the city's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. This photograph was loose in the box with Album 11.

    Date: 9/21/1934

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 255
    McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 255

    Caption: "Sloat Monument. Monument, Cal," c. 1915, shows the Commodore John Drake Sloat monument in Monterey, California. The monument was constructed in 1910 and commemorates the taking possession of California from Mexico in 1846 by Sloat and his men at Monterey, which was the capital city of Alta California during the Mexican era.

    Date: 1915