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No Caption: A "Mexico by Motor" decal, c. 1938, rectangular, in yellow and purple.
Date: 1938
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Ojay, or Ojai boundaries. Volume 1, page 342.
Date: 1841
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No caption: William (middle) and Grace (far left) McCarthy posing with four unidentified women in front of a small body of water, c. 1925.
Date: 1925
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The Census of 1852 collection includes enumerations of California's 32 counties, arranged into 126 volumes. Schedule I enumerated the county's inhabitants, while schedule II enurmerated economic production. Many pages of this volume are damaged.
Date: 1852
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No Caption: c. 1908-1912. Group of men posing around a 12-inch disappearing gun. 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. Such guns were often used in coastal fortifications.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "George Washington Bridge. New Jersey to New York. Aug 1, 1934." This suspension bridge, designed by Othmar Ammann, spans the Hudson River between Manhattan in New York City, and Fort Lee, New Jersey. Constructed between 1927 and 1931, the bridge included the longest main span in the world at the time, a record it held until construction of the Golden Gate Bridge was completed in 1937. It was originally built with only one deck, but a second deck opened in 1962. Still in active use today, it carried over 51 million vehicles in 2016.
Date: 8/1/1934
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No Caption: Grace McCarthy (left) and friend sitting in the Electric Motor Chair, also known as the Osborn Electriquette, with William McCarthy standing by, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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No Caption: A "Follow the Birds to Victoria, B.C." sticker, c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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No Caption: Mission Delores, the oldest intact building still standing in San Francisco today, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. The parish church next to it was greatly damaged and rebuilt as the Mission Dolores Basilica, opened in 1918.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Echo Park, Los Angeles," c. 1915, shows palms and trees lining a small lake in Echo Park, Los Angeles.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Boating on the Russian River - Healdsburg," c. 1915, shows Grace and William McCarthy in a row boat on the Russian River at Healdsburg.
Date: 1915