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  • Nicasio Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Nicasio boundaries. Volume 2, page 104.

    Date: 1843

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 026

    Caption: "Indian Hut Made From Adobe and Bush Branches, Sacaton Indian Reservation, Sacaton, Arizona, May, 24, 1934." View of a small adobe building with a porch area across the length of the façade. The porch is sheltered by a low roof supported by tree trunks or thick tree branches and thatched with grass or sticks. Located south of Phoenix and including the town of Sacaton, the Gila River Indian Reservation is home to members of the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and the Pee-Posh (Maricopa) tribes. The reservation was established in 1859. Eighty years later, in 1939, Congress provided for the self-governance of the reservation via the Gila River Indian Community.

    Date: 5/24/1934

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 181

    No caption. Young unidentified boy seated on a horse saddled with English tack in front of the John Shields residence in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.

    Date: 1934

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 106

    Caption: "Virginia Hotel -- Long Beach," c. 1915-1916. Automobile in front of the Virginia Hotel, built in 1908.

    Date: 1915

  • San Pedro Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of San Pedro boundaries. Volume 1, page 82.

    Date: 1835

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 431

    Caption: "Chapultepec Castle - Presidential Palace, Mexico City." William McCarthy in the gardens of Chapultepec Castle, the Presidential Palace.

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 171

    Caption: "Street Scene, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 19, 1934." Busy street in Raleigh, lined with parked cars. The dome and columned entryway of North Carolina's Capitol can be seen in the distance.

    Date: 7/19/1934

  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 045

    No Caption: A front page Seattle Daily Times article and photographs reporting on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, with the headline: "City Wiped Out! Fire Still Raging!" April 20, 1906.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 334

    No caption, undated. Unidentified child in improvised raft on a lake or river. The raft is composed of a wood crate and several wood boards.

    Date: Undated

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 297

    Caption: "Rocky Mountains Near Evanston, Wyoming. Near Wyoming and Utah State Line. Oct. 2, 1934." A narrow road twists into the distance, flanked on one side by bottomland along a river or stream, and on the other by dramatic, steep, rocky bluffs.

    Date: 10/2/1934

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 240

    Caption: "Cabrilla [sic] Bridge. P.C. Exp. San Diego. July 18, 1915," Built for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, the Cabrillo Bridge continues to provide access between Balboa Park and the uptown area of San Diego. See also 96-07-08-alb01-161.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 363

    No Caption: A page from a tourist brochure detailing travel information for tourists to Mexico, including automobile permits, money exchange, baggage inspection, accident insurance, firearms, hunting, registration for cameras, furs, and diamonds, and "Negro servants," which "require a cash bond of 250 pesos, which is refunded upon leaving Mexico."

    Date: 1938