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  • eichler_f3274_028
    Caption: "East Elevation." Sketch of garage in colored pencil by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Corrections.
  • eichler_f3274_027
    Caption: "California Medical Facility, Vacaville." Painting on board; drawing created in two hours by Alfred Eichler for a newspaper.
  • eichler_f3274_023
    Caption: "California Institution for Women. State Department of Public Works, Division of Architecture, Sacramento." Preliminary drawing of new women's prison in Tehachapi. Design and drawing in pen and ink by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Corrections.
  • eichler_f3274_017
    Caption: "Detail of Tower." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1930. This was one of the first border stations and was situated in desert country; its purpose was to provide a stopping place for inspection of motor traffic coming into California in order to enforce quarantine against insect infestation of California agricultural products. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • eichler_f3274_014
    Caption: "Department of Agriculture - Plant Quarantine Inspection Station - Ft. Yuma. State Department of Public Works, Division of Architecture." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1930. This was one of the first border stations and was situated in desert country; its purpose was to provide a stopping place for inspection of motor traffic coming into California in order to enforce quarantine against insect infestation of California agricultural products. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • eichler_f3274_013
    Caption: "Front and Side Elevations." Design and drawing of Hornbrook border inspection station by Alfred Eichler, c. 1931. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • eichler_f3274_012
    Caption: " Border Station - Hornbrook." Design and sketch of plant quarantine inspection station by Alfred Eichler, c. 1931. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • eichler_f3274_010
    Caption: "Border Station - Hornbrook." Color drawing of plant quarantine inspection station. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler, c. 1931. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • eichler_f3274_009
    Caption: "State of California - Department of Agriculture Border Inspection Station - Dorris." Design by Earl W. Hampton; drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1936. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • eichler_f3274_008
    Caption: "Crescent City Border Station. Dept. of Agriculture." Sketch of plant quarantine inspection station. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1936. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • eichler_f3274_007
    Caption: "Border Station near Crescent City - Smith River. As built 1931." Design and color drawing of plant quarantine inspection by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1936. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • eichler_f3274_006
    Caption: "Border Station. Crescent City." Design and drawing of plant quarantine inspection station by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1936. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • eichler_f3274_005
    Caption: "Crescent City." Design and drawing of plant quarantine inspection station by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1936. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • eichler_f3274_004
    Caption: "Inspection Station Blythe." Design and elevation drawing of plant quarantine inspection station by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1939. Situated in desert country. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • eichler_f3274_003
    Caption: "Quarantine Inspection Station, Blythe, California, State Department of Agriculture. Department of Public Works, Division of Architecture-Sacramento." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1939. Situated in desert country. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • eichler_f3274_002
    Caption: "Blythe Inspection Station." Design and drawing of plant quarantine inspection station by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1939. Situated in desert country. Project for Department of Agriculture.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 454
    Caption: "Guadalupe Shrine, Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 453
    Caption: "A close up of the Columna de Independencia, Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 452
    Caption: "A solid mass of flowers in a Mexico City garden."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 451a
    No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing the Guadalupe shrine in Mexico City.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 451
    Caption: "Waiting for the traffic signal - Avenue Juarez, Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 450
    Caption: "Hotel Reforma, modern and Americanized, Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 449
    Caption: "Selling enchiladas - street delicatessen, Mexico City." William and Grace McCarthy (wearing hats on right side of photograph) with a group of unidentified people, some of whom are selling enchiladas.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 448
    Caption: "Carmen, Josefina and grandmother - Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 447
    Caption: "Monument of the Revolution, Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 446
    Caption: "Obregon's tomb, Mexico City." William and Grace McCarthy standing before the monument to General Alvaro Obregon (1880-1928), who was a leader of the Mexican Revolution (1920-1920). Obregon was elected President of post-Revolution Mexico, serving from 1920-1924. In 1928, he was again elected but was assassinated by Jose de Leon Toral, a Roman Catholic who opposed Obregon's policies on religious matters. The monument was completed in 1935 and stands in the San Angel region of Mexico City, in the same location where Obregon was assassinated.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 445
    Caption: "Obregon's tomb, Mexico City." William and Grace McCarthy standing before the monument to General Alvaro Obregon (1880-1928), who was a leader of the Mexican Revolution (1920-1920). Obregon was elected President of post-Revolution Mexico, serving from 1920-1924. In 1928, he was again elected but was assassinated by Jose de Leon Toral, a Roman Catholic who opposed Obregon's policies on religious matters. The monument was completed in 1935 and stands in the San Angel region of Mexico City, in the same location where Obregon was assassinated.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 444
    Caption: "Another beautiful residence in Chapultepec Heights."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 443
    Caption: "Residence in Chapultepec Heights - Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 442
    Caption" A residence in Chapultepec Heights - Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 441
    Caption: "One of the many grand residences in Chapultepec Heights, Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 440
    Caption: "Our tourist home - Mexico City. Mexican mother and children." William and Grace McCarthy are seen standing with an unidentified woman and four children, in front of the home they stayed in during their visit to Mexico City.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 439
    Caption: "Felicitas Medrano." A portrait of Felicitas Medrano, seen as the flag bearer in the Labor Day Parade in Mexico City, in photograph 96-07-08-alb10-436.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 438
    No Caption: An unidentified woman wearing a marching band costume.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 437
    Caption: "Beautiful equestrian costumes -beautiful senoritas and escorts - a frequent Sunday morning sight - Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 436
    Caption: "Labor Day Parade, flag bearer Miss Felicitas Medrano. Mexico City, May 1, 1938."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 435
    Caption: "Avenida Paseo de la Reforma - apartment houses on the right. Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 434
    Caption: "View of the Avenida Paseo de la Reforma with a portion of Mexico City on the left. Photo taken from the Columna de Independencia."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 433
    Caption: "Office buildings and stores at the Zocalo - Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 432a
    No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing the National Palace in Mexico City.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 432
    Caption: "National Palace - housing the Presidents [sic] executive offices."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 431
    Caption: "Chapultepec Castle - Presidential Palace, Mexico City." William McCarthy in the gardens of Chapultepec Castle, the Presidential Palace.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 430
    Caption: "Chapultepec Castle - Presidential Palace, Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 429
    Caption: "Presidential Palace dining room - hand carved chairs and wall ornaments - tapestry of gold and silver thread-Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 428a
    No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing the Cathedral and Chapultepec Castle and Park in Mexico City.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 428
    Caption: "The Zocalo and the Cathedral dating from 1573 - Mexico City. Plaza de la Costitucion [sic]."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 427
    Caption: "Xochimilco - Floating Gardens - the Mexican Venice."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 426
    Caption: "Temple of Quetzalcoatl, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 425
    Caption: "Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan (Tay-o-tee-haw-can), Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 424a
    No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing Xochimilco, south of Mexico City, sometimes called the Mexican Venice, for its canals and floating gardens.