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Exhibits

McCarthy Album 11, Photograph x005

Item

Title
McCarthy Album 11, Photograph x005
Description
Caption: "Ancient Locomotives. Chicago Fair. Sept. 21, 1934." This photograph shows two steam locomotives from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, on display at the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, celebrating that city's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. This photograph was loose in the box with Album 11.
Contributor
Audrey Fullerton-Samora of Sacramento, great niece of William and Grace McCarthy, donated the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection to the California State Archives in 1996.
Coverage
Chicago, Illinois
Date
9/21/1934
Format
JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier
96-07-08-alb11-x005
Language
English
Publisher
California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Rights
© 2017 by the California State Archives, a division of the Secretary of State’s Office. Contact the owner for more information at ArchivesWeb@sos.ca.gov or (916) 653-2246.
Source
Image of an item within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject
Locomotives on Display at the Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago
Type
Still Image