McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 116

Title: McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 116
Description: Caption: "Coronado Tent City," c. 1915-1916. Grace McCarthy and two unidentified people in an automobile near a row of small beach shacks with thatched roofs and striped fabric walls and doorways. The Coronado Hotel is visible in the background. Established in 1900 for travelers who could not afford to stay in the resort hotel, the Coronado Tent City consisted of a grid of streets lined with furnished tents, near the sea shore. It also featured restaurants, a library, soda fountain, theater, bandstand, and other recreational facilities.
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: Coronado, California
Date: 1915
Format: JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier: 96-07-08-alb04-116
Language: English
Publisher: California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Source: Image of a photograph within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject: Coronado
Type: Still Image