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  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 085
    McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 085

    Caption: "Transportation Busses [sic] - Boulder City to Boulder Dam," c. 1935, shows a line of double-decker buses used to transport workers from Boulder City to Boulder Dam.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 087
    McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 087

    Caption: "Sacramento - State Capitol," c. 1910, shows the façade of California's neoclassical-style capitol building in Sacramento.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 199
    McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 199

    Caption: "12" Disappearing Gun," c. 1915. Looking up at the undercarriage of a 12" disappearing gun aimed over a high parapet. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.

    Date: 1915