McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 317
Item
- Title
- McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 317
- Description
- Caption: "Glacier Point Hotel," c. 1917. The 80-room chalet-style Glacier Point Hotel opened in 1918, located 3,218 feet above the floor of Yosemite Valley on Glacier Point. This photograph shows the back side of the building, with a viewing porch that looked out over the valley. The building was destroyed by an electrical fire in July 1969.
- 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
- Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California
- Date
- 1917
- Format
- JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
- Identifier
- 96-07-08-alb-09-317
- 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
- Glacier Point Hotel, Yosemite National Park
- Type
- Still Image
- Media
96-07-08-alb09-317.jpg