Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 207
  Caption: "Keechelus Lake - Snoqualmie National Forest Highway," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 334
  No Caption: Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 091
  Caption: "Beauty and the Beast Fountain" (Edgar Walter, sculptor), in the Court of Flowers at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 311
  No caption: "Concord Calif.," c. 1915. Group of unidentified people posing in front of a residence in Concord, California.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 013
  No Caption: Court of the Universe at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. The Panama Pacific International Exposition was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, as well as inventive technologies and new industries from around the world. It was also a chance for San Francisco to show the world how the great city had rebuilt and thrived after the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 017
  Caption: "Fort Casey Barracks," c. 1908-1912. View of two barracks buildings at Fort Casey, located on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1897. Fort Casey 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. Army used the facility until the 1950s, when the fort was decommissioned. The area is now a state park.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 141
  Caption: "Columbia River Jetty, Or.," c. 1910. View of a jetty built at the mouth of the Columbia River, carrying a railroad trestle. A train hauling cars loaded with large rocks is steaming away from the photographer. This is likely the so-called South Jetty, extending more than six miles into the ocean from Point Adams on the Oregon side of the river mouth. The jetty system at the mouth of the Columbia River was constructed between 1885 and 1917. Designed to funnel water from the Columbia River in a more concentrated fashion into the Pacific Ocean, the jetty system helped create a deeper, more stable shipping channel.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 450
  Caption: "Hotel Reforma, modern and Americanized, Mexico City."
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 182
  Caption: "Union Pacific Bridge -- Portland, OR.," c. 1915. Built in 1912, this through-truss, double-deck, vertical lift bridge crosses the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. See also 96-07-08-alb08-038.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 248
  Caption: "Market St. S.F," c. 1910, shows Market Street in San Francisco, possibly during a parade to celebrate Admission Day on September 9, when California was admitted as a state into the U.S.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 070
  Caption: "Antlers Hotel - Colorado Springs," c. 1923. A busy street scene in Colorado Springs, with the Antlers Hotel rising in the background. Built in 1901 to replace a previous building lost in a fire, this Italian Renaissance structure was torn down in 1967 and replaced with a fourteen-floor hotel, which still stands today.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 198
  No caption. An unidentified woman and boy pose in a small go-cart near the carport in front of the John Shields residence, in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 002
  Caption: "Cliff Beach." Shows views of Ocean Beach near the Cliff House in San Francisco, c. 1910.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 129
  Caption: "The Pioneer Mother," (Charles Grafly, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-107.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 257
  Caption: "Field Artillery Target Practice. Gigling, Cal.," c. 1915, shows men in military gear firing a large cannon at the Gigling Field Artillery Range in Monterey, California, which, along with the surrounding area, was redesignated Fort Ord in 1940.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 187
  Caption: "Portion of Cities [sic] Beauty, Washington, D.C. July 26, 1934, Taken from Washington Capitol Dome." Bird's eye view of a portion of Washington, D.C., showing Upper and Lower Senate Parks.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 082
  Caption: "Beacon Tavern - Barstow, Calif.," c. 1935, shows the Beacon Tavern and Hotel at Barstow, designed in the Spanish-Colonial Revival architectural style. It opened in 1930 and was torn down in 1970, after several years of decline.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 208
  No Caption: Seattle street scene, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 092
  Caption: "Genius of Creation Monument" (Daniel Chester French, sculptor), in the Avenue of Progress at the Panama- Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 014
  No Caption: Educational Building on the left, with Tower of Jewels in the background, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. The Panama Pacific International Exposition was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, as well as inventive technologies and new industries from around the world. It was also a chance for San Francisco to show the world how the great city had rebuilt and thrived after the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 451
  Caption: "Waiting for the traffic signal - Avenue Juarez, Mexico City."
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 183
  Caption: "R.R. Grades in the Siskiyou Mountains -- Scene Taken from the Track Above," c. 1910. Mountain scene in northern California or southern Oregon, looking down on railroad tracks, with a train snaking its way through the terrain.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 249
  No Caption. A view of a train crossing over trestle at an unidentified location, c. 1910.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 003
  Caption: "Conservatory Golden Gate Park," c. 1910. See also 96-07-08-alb03-006, and 96-07-08-alb02-014. The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, originally opened in 1879. After the most recent extensive rehabilitation, the conservatory reopened in 2003 and is a city, state, and national historic landmark.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 130
  Caption: "The Lagoon," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-108.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 258
  Caption: "Gigling, Monterey Co. Cal. July 14, 1915," shows a man in military gear shooting a large cannon. See also 96-07-08-alb07-257.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 083
  Caption: "Fremont St. Los [sic] Vegas, Nevada," c. 1935, shows the Las Vegas, Nevada thoroughfare.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 209
  Caption: "Seattle totem pole. Seattle Population 375,000," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 336
  No Caption: A tunnel tree in Yosemite National Park, with a sign next to it reading: "California HGT: 246' DIAM: 21'," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 093
  No Caption: Court of Abundance at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 015
  No Caption: Colonnades at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. The Panama Pacific International Exposition was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, as well as inventive technologies and new industries from around the world. It was also a chance for San Francisco to show the world how the great city had rebuilt and thrived after the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 019
  Caption: "Fort Casey block-house." and "USED AS A FORT TO FIGHT INDIANS IN EARLY DAYS," c. 1908-1912. View of a blockhouse, a timber structure built by European settlers to guard against attack during the Indian Wars of 1855-1857. See also 96-07-08-alb08-067.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 451a
  No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing the Guadalupe shrine in Mexico City.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 184
  Caption: "Trestle in the Siskiyou Mountains," c. 1910. Train crossing trestle in Siskiyou Mountains in northern California or southern Oregon. Smoke obscures the forward cars of the train, presumably from the locomotive. See also Album 96-07-08-alb08-093.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 124
  Caption: "President Roosevelt in Vallejo," c. 1903. President Theodore Roosevelt came to California in 1903, visiting several cities and towns, including Vallejo, where he laid the cornerstone of the Navy YMCA. Thousands traveled to Vallejo to greet the president, most by steam railroad.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 250
  Caption: "Monte Rio, Calif," c. 1910. A Boat landing and foot bridge at C.W. Meadows' place of business at Monte Rio, along the Russian River in Sonoma County, California.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 200
  Caption: "Sun Set On The Atlantic," c. 1925. A dark Atlantic Ocean beneath a cloudy sky.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 004
  Caption: "Presidio S.F." See also 96-07-08-alb02-021. Entrance to the main post of the Presidio, San Francisco, c. 1910. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 131
  Caption: "Court of the Universe at Night," shows the Tower of Jewels in the background and reflected in the reflecting pool, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-109.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 259
  Caption: "Crossing the Line California to Nevada," c. 1915, shows railroad tracks intersecting the border between California and Nevada in the Sierra Nevada.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 189
  Caption: "U.S. Capitol Building in the distance. View Taken from the Washington Monument. Washington, D.C. July 27, 1934." Bird's eye view of a portion of the National Mall, between the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol Building.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 083a
  No Caption: A 1935 three-cent U.S. Postage stamp, featuring Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam, which was constructed between 1931 and 1936. The concrete arch-gravity dam is located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between Clark County, Nevada, and Mojave County, Arizona. A National Historic Landmark, the dam provides hydroelectric power, water storage, flood control, and recreation at Lake Mead, the reservoir created by the dam's construction.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 210
  No Caption: The Smith Tower, named after it builder, industrialist and typewriter magnate, Lyman Cornelius Smith, opened in 1914. At 38 floors, the Smith Tower was the first skyscraper in Seattle and the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 337
  No Caption: c. 1935. Pictured are vehicles driving through the famous Wawona Tunnel Tree, a giant sequoia that stood in Mariposa Grove of Yosemite National Park. The tree's tunnel was cut in 1881 as a tourist attraction. In 1969, the tree fell during a severe winter storm. Before it fell, the ancient tree measured 234 ft. high, twenty-six ft. in diameter, and was approximately 2,100 years old.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 094
  No Caption: Court of Abundance at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 056
  Caption: "Santa Rosa Court House.," c. 1914. Built in 1910, this building replaced the original Sonoma County courthouse that was destroyed by the great earthquake and fire that ravaged the San Francisco Bay Area in 1906. This second courthouse served the county for more than fifty years before being declared seismically unsafe in the 1960s. It was subsequently torn down, but the area still retains the name "Old Courthouse Square."
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 314
  No caption, c. 1915. Two unidentified people posing on a porch.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 020
  Caption: "Machinists' Headquarters, Fort Casey.," c. 1908-1912. View of building with gabled roof and sides sheathed in wood planks, with a small shed to the left and another small building to the right. Fort Casey was part of the "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1897, and the U.S. Army used the facility until the 1950s, when the fort was decommissioned. The area is now a state park.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 452
  Caption: "A solid mass of flowers in a Mexico City garden."
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 073
  Caption: "Temple Drive to Cave of the Winds," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of a road at the bottom of a canyon, on a drive to Cave of the Winds. Two brothers discovered the entrance to the large cave system in 1880, in Williams Canyon just outside of Manitou Springs. Further exploration resulted in opening more caverns within the system, and the site became a tourist attraction, with guided tours having been on offer since 1881.