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  • Sierra de Cuyamaca Rancho

    Hand-drawn sketch map of Sierra de Cuyamaca boundaries. Volume 2, page 137.

    Date: 1845

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 243

    Caption: "California Counties Building P.C. Exp. San Diego," at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 013

    Caption: "Portola. King & Queen." Actors portraying explorer Gaspar de Portolà and Queen Vergilia in a parade, part of the San Francisco Portola Festival held October 19-23, 1909. The festival celebrated Portolà as the discoverer of San Francisco Bay. It was held annually until 1913. See also 96-07-08-alb06-162.

    Date: 1909-10

  • Memo on Red Cross

    Office Memorandum from Genevieve Jefferson to War Services Division regarding the use of Red Cross assistance or Federal funds for resettlement

    Date: February 21, 1945

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 100

    Caption: "Seminole Indian Village -- Miami -- Florida. June, [sic] 30, 1934." Several shelters with roofs of thatched grass or brush, with several unidentified women and children scattered throughout the photograph. The Seminoles are a Native American tribe from Florida, although most of the tribe had been forcibly relocated from Florida to Oklahoma by 1842. Fewer than 200 remained in Florida after the Third Seminole War ended in 1858, but a resurgence of the tribe occurred in the early to mid twentieth century. The Florida Seminole tribe received federal recognition in 1957.

    Date: 6/30/1934