Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 088
  Caption: "Court House, Santa Cruz," c. 1912-1915. Image of the courthouse building constructed in Santa Cruz in 1896. The building was periodically renovated, the most extensive occurring after the 1906 earthquake, when much of the courthouse had to be rebuilt. In 1967, the county removed its court facilities to a new building. The old courthouse was subsequently remodeled, opening in 1972 as an office and retail building. Heavy damages sustained in 1989 as a result of the Loma Prieta earthquake necessitated the building's demolition. Please note that this photograph appears to be reversed, as this is a mirror image of the structure.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 174
  Caption: "R U N N I N G J U M P.," c. 1917. Image of an early high jumper in mid-leap, with men clad in military uniforms watching, as well as civilian men and women. In the high jump, athletes attempt to leap over a horizontal bar without the benefit of a pole (as in pole vaulting). The technique shown here is an early one with the jumper upright rather than in the "Fosbury Flop" position, developed later in the century. The uniforms and surrounding vegetation in the photograph suggest that that event may have taken place at Camp Lewis, Washington.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph x006
  Caption: "Delaware & Hudson R.R. Exhibit. Chicago. Sept. 21, 1934. First Locomotive to Operate on an American Railroad, August 8, 1829." View of a replica of the Stourbridge Lion, the first steam locomotive to operate in the U.S., on lines built by the Delaware and Hudson Railway (formerly the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company). The replica was displayed at the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition, celebrating Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. This photograph was loose in the box with Album 11.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 233
  Caption: "City Park Scene - New Orleans," c. 1925. Peaceful scene in New Orleans' City Park, with an ivy-covered pedestrian bridge over the rippling waters of a pond or stream. A small building is mostly obscured by trees at the left side of the photograph.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 034
  Caption: "Highway through the Mountains -- Nevada." Mountain scene, with highway snaking through trees in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 161
  Caption: "Crown Point.," c. 1920. Shows the Vista House, built in 1918 as a memorial to Oregon's pioneers. Designed by Edgar M. Lazarus, it sits atop Crown Point, a rocky promontory overlooking the Columbia River gorge, along the Historic Columbia River Highway.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 234
  Caption: "Peristyle - City Park- New Orleans," c. 1925. The Neoclassical open air pavilion seen at the left side of this photograph was built in New Orleans' City Park in 1907 to host parties, dances and weddings. It was designed by architect Paul Andry.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 162
  Caption: "Columbia River Scenes.," c. 1920. Shows the Vista House and Crown Point from a point on the hillside below. The Vista House was built in 1918 as a memorial to Oregon's pioneers. Designed by Edgar M. Lazarus, it sits atop Crown Point, a rocky promontory overlooking the Columbia River gorge, along the Historic Columbia River Highway.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 159
  No Caption: The photograph has a hand-written inscription stating: "Portola Electric Bell Copyright 1909 Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 800." Installed on the intersection of Third and Market Streets in San Francisco, the Portola Electric Bell contained two thousand bulbs and rose 125 feet above the street. It was part of the Portola Festival of 1909, 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.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 097
  Caption: "Miami Fla. Miami Beach in the Distance. Taken from City Hall Tower, June 30, 1934." Bird's eye view of Miami, with the ocean in the distance. This photograph was likely taken from atop the Miami-Dade Courthouse rather than City Hall.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 036
  Caption: "Mary." Elderly woman with shawl and metal pail standing in front of fence.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 051
  Caption: "Training Ship. Bremerton," Washington, c. 1908 - 1912. See also 96-07-08-alb08-086. View of the USS Philadelphia (C-4). The fourth ship to bear the name, the Philadelphia first launched in September 1889. She sailed as part of the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Squadron until 1893. She then sailed into the Pacific Ocean, where she served until being decommissioned and docked in Puget Sound in 1902. In 1904, the Navy "housed over" the ship (adding the roofed quarters visible on the upper deck in the photograph) and designated her a receiving ship for new sailors not yet assigned to a crew. The Philadelphia served in this capacity until 1912. After a brief stint as a prison ship, the Philadelphia again became a receiving ship in 1916. The Navy sold her in 1927.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 286
  Caption: "USS Connecticut, Admiral Evans," c. 1908. View of the USS Connecticut, with an inset circular photograph of Admiral Evans. The USS Connecticut was commissioned on September 29, 1906 as the most advanced ship in the U.S. Navy. Because the provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 stipulated that older battleships would be disposed of, the Connecticut was decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1923.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 164
  No caption, c. 1915-1920. Two unidentified women swimming in what is likely Lake Tahoe
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 109
  Caption: "Bell [sic] Isle Park - Detroit," c.1925. This photograph features the Belle Isle Casino, on the edge of Lake Tacoma on Belle Isle, in the Detroit River. The building is the second structure at the site, built in 1908 to replace a dilapidated wooden structure. The building is not a gambling facility, but is instead called a "casino" in the older sense of the word: a public building for meetings, dancing, reunions, and other recreation.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 099
  Caption: "Miami -- View from Beach, June 30, 1934." View of Miami's skyline from across a stretch of ocean. The Miami-Biltmore Hotel can be seen in the center of the photograph, with the Miami-Dade County Courthouse just to its right.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 223
  No caption, c. 1934. Undated photograph of an unidentified woman, possibly taken in a photography studio.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 038
  Caption: "State Capitol -- Nevada." Dome of Nevada's Neoclassical Italianate State Capitol Building, constructed between 1869 and 1871 in Carson City. Trees obscure much of the building.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 165
  Caption: "Lake Tahoe," c. 1915-1920. Two unidentified women, the same two appearing in 96-07-08-alb04-164, wearing swimsuits, on a beach at Lake Tahoe.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 222
  Caption: "Logging Train -- Scene in Washington," c. 1905-1909. This photograph shows the final cars on a logging train in Washington, with a caboose at the end, traveling over a trestle under cloudy skies.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 100
  Caption: "Seminole Indian Village -- Miami -- Florida. June, [sic] 30, 1934." Several shelters with roofs of thatched grass or brush, with several unidentified women and children scattered throughout the photograph. The Seminoles are a Native American tribe from Florida, although most of the tribe had been forcibly relocated from Florida to Oklahoma by 1842. Fewer than 200 remained in Florida after the Third Seminole War ended in 1858, but a resurgence of the tribe occurred in the early to mid twentieth century. The Florida Seminole tribe received federal recognition in 1957.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 039
  Caption: "Nevada Scenes." Valley surrounded by mountains.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 094
  Caption: "Coast Defense." Photograph of part of a print from the Illustrated London News, titled "A Modern Method of Coast Defense: The Arrangement of an Up-To-Date Battery." See also 96-07-08-alb08-230.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 180
  Caption: "San Francisco in 1849. Center of Town." This photograph shows the central portion of an 1886 lithograph by Henry Firks, depicting San Francisco as it appeared in 1849.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 225
  Caption: "Vincent, Aug. 23, 1934." Young boy posing for a photograph on a patio or in a garden.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 040
  Caption: "Carson Valley Scene." Valley surrounded by mountains.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 095
  No caption. Photograph of part of a print from the Illustrated London News, regarding placement and operation of coastal artillery defense methods. See also 96-07-08-alb08-231.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 181
  Caption: "Market Street, Donohoe Bldg., Palace, Grand, Chronicle & Call," c. 1905. View of San Francisco's Market Street, with the Flood Building (built in 1904) prominent in the right side of the photograph.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 102
  Caption: "Alligator Wrestler at the Alligator Farm -- Miami -- Flopida [sic] July, [sic] 1 1934." An unidentified man grasps an alligator by the snout in this photograph.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 041
  Caption: "Lake Tahoe."
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 168
  No caption, c. 1915-1920. Unidentified women standing at a summit point in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, at elevation 7,630 feet. She is standing next to a road sign with directions and distances to Placerville and Lake Tahoe listed.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 182
  Caption: "San Francisco April 17, 1906. Center of Town." Bird's eye view of the center of San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Call Building (built in the 1890s to house the San Francisco Call newspaper) is the tallest building in the photograph, just to the right of center. See also 96-07-08-alb02-026.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 165
  No Caption: Inscribed on the photograph: "An "Old Settler" Pt. Bonita, California." A view of a large cannon on a carriage.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 042
  Caption: "Lake Tahoe."
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 183
  Caption: "San Francisco April 18, 1906. Center of Town. The Awful Fire after the Shake." Fire engulfing buildings in San Francisco's city center after the 1906 earthquake. Great plumes of smoke dominate the photograph. See also 96-07-08-alb02-025.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 228
  Caption: "Jones's [sic] Beach Tower, New York. Aug. 26 1934." The large tower in the center of this photograph was a 188-foot-tall water tower in Jones Beach, built in 1930 in imitation of the Italianate-style bell tower of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. The Long Island State Park Commission began to develop what is now the Jones Beach area for a park in the 1920s, dredging enough sand to connect several of the barrier islands south of Long Island and raising the elevation of the islands by fourteen feet to create one large park. It opened to the public in 1929. It is now a state park, with an estimated six million visitors each year.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 043
  Caption: "State Penitentiary -- Carson City Nevada." View of prison gate and some of the buildings.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 061
  Caption: "Review, Fort Worden.," c. 1908-1912. Shows a military band playing or preparing to play, with rows of troops assembled in the background on the right side of the photograph. Fort Worden is located in Port Townsend, Washington, on Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1898, and by 1902 it was serving as an active U.S. Army base. Fort Worden was part of the "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. The U.S. sold the property to the State of Washington in 1957. In 1973, the fort and surrounding area opened as Fort Worden State Park.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 184
  Caption: "The Fire Down Town." Fire engulfing buildings in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. Smoke plumes fill half of the photograph.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 044
  Caption: "Nevada Scene." Mountainside, with another mountain in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 171
  Caption: "Washington State Capitol -- Olympia.," c. 1920. Also known as The Castle, this building served as Washington's state capitol building from 1905 to 1928, when the Legislature moved into the current building. The central tower of The Castle was lost in a 1928 fire, while numerous other towers fell to the 1949 Olympia earthquake. Some of those towers have been restored.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 062
  Caption: "Burnt Arlington Dock, Seattle." This photograph shows the result of a fire at Seattle's Arlington Dock on May 7, 1906. Heavy fire damage can be seen on the building pictured. Its roof and the central portion of the façade collapsed, and burn marks appear at all windows. Thousands of dollars' worth of supplies were destroyed in the fire. At the time, Arlington Dock was the primary shipping facility for the city.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 116
  Caption: "Niagara Falls," c. 1925. View of the American Falls (widest waterfall in the photograph), and Bridal Veil Falls, two of the three waterfalls that make up the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 172
  Caption: "Sisters Hospital -- Walla Walla.," ca. 1920. Five-story brick and stone building. This building is the second hospital built on the site. The first, built in the 1880s by the Sisters of Providence, burned in a 1915 fire. This second building (seen here), constructed in 1916, served as the main hospital building until a new facility was constructed in 1976. The resulting new complex of buildings is now called the Providence St. Mary Medical Center.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 186
  Caption: "Seattle Times, Copy." Photograph of the front page and an additional page from the Seattle Daily Times, April 20, 1906, in regard to the earthquake and fire that destroyed much of San Francisco on April 18, 1906. The primary headline reads "CITY WIPED OUT! Fire Still Raging!" See also 96-07-08-alb05-020 and 021.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 231
  Caption: "Trinity Church, Wall Street. Aug. 29, 1934. New York City." The 281-foot-high steeple of Trinity Church spears the sky between two tall buildings on New York City's Wall Street in this photograph. The church, dedicated in 1846, was the third church built at the site. Designed by Richard Upjohn when the second Trinity Church had to be replaced due to structural issues, the present church is one of the earliest examples of Gothic Revival or Neo-Gothic architecture in the nation. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 046
  Caption: "Kingsbury Grade -- Nevada." Shows a hairpin turn on the Kingsbury Grade in Douglas County, Nevada. Now part of Nevada State Route 207, the road intersects U.S. Highway 50 near the southeastern corner of Lake Tahoe.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 173
  Caption: "Columbia River Scenes," c. 1920. Oneonta Creek running through thick, lush vegetation and a small, steeply-sided gorge.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 101
  Caption: "Firing 14 Inch Disappearing Gun." This is a copy of a photograph taken by C.D. Heath at the Sandy Hook Proving Ground. It shows a heavy artillery gun firing from an embankment upon which several people stand. Located at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, the Sandy Hook Proving Ground was used by the U.S. Army to test ordinance and materiel from 1874-1919. See also 96-07-08-alb05-102.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 187
  Caption: "Examiner Cartoon." Photograph of a cartoon that appeared in the San Francisco Examiner in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire. The cartoon shows a defiant grizzly bear representing San Francisco, pierced by three arrows labeled "Earthquake," "Fire," and "Famine." The word "UNDAUNTED!" appears above the bear.