McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 162

Title: McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 162
Description: Caption: "Don Gasper [sic] de Portola and Queen," 1909. Participants at the Portola Festival on horseback and dressed in period costume as Don Gaspar De Portola and Queen. The Portola Festival was a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.
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: San Francisco, California
Date: 1909
Format: JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier: 96-07-08-alb06-162
Language: English
Publisher: California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Source: Image of an item within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject: Portola Celebration, San Francisco
Type: Still Image