Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 024
  Caption: "Ordnance Avenue, Fort Casey." C. 1908-1912. Rural road lined with thick vegetation and trees.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 148
  Caption: "Seaside Beach, Or.," undated. View of a rocky ocean beach and ocean breakers.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 189
  Caption: "R.R. Trestle -- Siskiyou Mountains," c. 1910. View from below of a train trestle in the Siskiyou Mountains of northern California or southern Oregon.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 129
  No caption. View of an unidentified man, likely of Chinese ancestry, standing on the porch of a building at unidentified location, c. 1908.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 255
  Caption: "The Tamalpais, Fort McDowell in the distance," c. 1910. The single stack steamer, Tamalpais, cruising on the waters of the San Francisco Bay. Fort McDowell, seen in the distance, is located on Angel , today part of the California State Park system.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 077
  Caption: "State Capitol - Denver," c. 1923. The Colorado State Capitol in Denver is a Neoclassical building built from Colorado rose onyx, a stone so rare that all known reserves were used in the capitol's construction. Designed by Elijah E. Myers, it was first occupied in 1894.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 205
  Caption: "Broadway From Roof Of Woolworth Bldg," c. 1925. Bird's eye view of New York City's Broadway, and surrounding skyscrapers.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 136
  No Caption: shows lighted buildings at night mirrored in reflecting pool, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-114, with caption: "South Gardens at Night."
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 264
  No Caption: shows the railroad tracks in the Feather River Canyon, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 067
  Caption: "Palofax [sic] St. Pensacola, Florida, June 21, 34." Street scene on Palafox Street in Pensacola. In the foreground the street is lined with trees, while a city center is visible in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 193
  Caption: "Apartments with their White Stone Steps, Baltimore, Maryland. July 30, 1934." View of several apartment buildings, almost identical, sheathed in brick with stone steps leading to the front doors.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 315
  Caption: "The China Clippers [sic] First Start Across the Pacific Ocean. Nov. 22, 1935." View of the China Clipper, a Martin M-130 four-engine flying boat constructed for Pan American Airways in 1935. One of the largest planes of its time, the China Clipper flew the first transpacific commercial airmail flight between San Francisco and Manila in the Philippines. The China Clipper was destroyed in a crash ten years later, in January 1945, at the Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 088
  Caption: "Boulder Dam Cement Mixers," c. 1935, shows the massive cement mixers used to build the Boulder Dam.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 215
  Caption: "The harbor of Vancouver, B.C." c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 099
  No Caption: Fountain of Summer (Furio Piccirilli, sculptor), in the Court of the Four Seasons at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 061
  Caption: "French 75 Millimeter Gun In Action," c. 1912-1915. Commonly called the French 75, or simply the 75, this heavy, rapid-fire artillery gun was developed in 1897. During World War I it was adapted to fire shells full of toxic gas, and was also modified for mounting on an armored vehicle. See also 96-07-08-alb05-060.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 319
  Caption: "Aeroplane -- Monte Rio,, Calif.," c. 1915. Biplane parked in a field, with an unidentified man on crutches nearby.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 021
  No Caption: Tower of Jewels, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 025
  Caption: "Government Steamer, Thomas.," c. 1980-1912. Shows a small steamship or ferry, its deck occupied by a group of unidentified people.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 190
  Caption: "R.R. Trestle -- Siskiyou Mountains," c. 1910. Train trestle in the Siskiyou Mountains of northern California or southern Oregon.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 006
  Caption: "Main Street, Watsonville," c. 1906. A view of a sparsely populated Main Street, with buggies and people in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 130
  Caption: "Elcampo [sic] Grove," c. 1908, shows a group of unidentified people sitting at a table at an outdoor location at El Campo Grove in Marin County.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 256
  Caption: "Point Benito [sic]. Fort Barry." c. 1910. A view of the Point Bonita Lighthouse near Fort Barry and the Marin Headlands. The lighthouse, built in 1855, was the third lighthouse built on the West Coast to shepherd ships through the narrow straights of the Golden Gate. The lighthouse, still active today, is maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 078
  Caption: "16th. St. Denver," c. 1923. A bustling scene of cars and people on Denver's 16th street.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 206
  Caption: "Vanderbilt Hotel N.Y," c. 1925. Wealthy businessman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Sr. had the Vanderbilt Hotel constructed on the site of a former Vanderbilt residence in New York City, just six blocks from the new Grand Central Terminal. Designed by architects Warren & Wetmore, the hotel opened in 1912. The top two stories were constructed as a private residence for Vanderbilt's family. The hotel still stands today, although it has undergone some renovations.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 137
  Caption: "Festival Hall Night Scene," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-115, with caption: "Festival Hall - Night Reflections."
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 265
  Caption: "Great Western Power Co.," c. 1915, shows the Great Western Power Company hydroelectric power plant along the Feather River in Plumas County.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 194
  Caption: "A Block of Broad St. Homes, Philadelphia, PA. July 31, 1934." Row houses along Philadelphia's Broad Street.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 316
  Caption: "San Francisco, Oakland Bay Bridge. Opening Day, Nov. 12, 1936." View of a portion of the ceremonies officially opening the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to traffic upon its completion in November 1936. The Bay Bridge's design combined three different types of bridge-building technology over the five miles it covers between San Francisco and Oakland: a suspension span, a cantilevered span, and a tunnel. At the time of its completion the bridge was the longest steel structure on the globe. It also featured the deepest bridge pier ever built, and the world's largest bore tunnel.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 089
  Caption: "Boulder Dam and Water Control Towers for Generating Power," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 216
  Caption: "Vancouver, B.C. Left, Vancouver Hotel, center, Canadian National Hotel," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 343
  No Caption: A view of snow-covered Half Dome at Yosemite National Park, c. 1932.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 100
  No Caption: Fountain of Autumn (Furio Piccirilli, sculptor), in the Court of the Four Seasons at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 062
  Caption: "Fruit Exhibit Watsonville." Exhibit at the 1912 "Big Week" in Salinas (Monterey County), an event still celebrated today as the Salinas Rodeo. The exhibit displays a building made almost entirely out of apples and apple slices. See also 96-07-08-alb05-068.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 320
  Caption: "Damaged German Submarine.," c. 1917. Shows the above-water portions of a German U-boat, or submarine, likely docked in either Petaluma or San Francisco, given the presence of a Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway ferry in the background.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 022
  No Caption: The California Building at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 026
  Caption: "U. S. 10" New Model Gun Carriage.," c. 1908-1912. Side view of a coastal defense disappearing gun carriage, without the gun barrel installed. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 150
  Caption: "Columbia River R. R.," c. 1910. View of railroad tracks along the Columbia River, with some train cars next to a high bank or cliff.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 191
  Caption: "Sacramento River Scene," c. 1910. Train running along Sacramento River in foothills or mountains. See also 96-07-08-alb08-037.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 131
  Caption: "Elcampo [sic] Grove," c, 1908, shows a group of unidentified people at El Campo Grove in Marin County.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 257
  Caption: "Point Benito [sic]. Fort Barry," c. 1910. A view of the Point Bonita Lighthouse near Fort Barry and the Marin Headlands. The lighthouse, built in 1855, was the third lighthouse built on the West Coast to shepherd ships through the narrow straights of the Golden Gate. The lighthouse, still active today, is maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 079
  Caption: "Missouri River Bridge," c. 1923. The Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge connects Council Bluffs, Iowa, with Omaha, Nebraska. The rail truss bridge was the third in the location, opening in 1916.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 011
  Caption: "Breaking of Ground, Panama-Pacific International Exposition." See also 96-07-08-alb01-006, which includes the same caption. San Francisco, Oct 14, 1911. The 1915 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 07, Photograph 138
  Caption: "Palace of Horticulture - Night Scene," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-116, with caption: "Palace of Horticulture - Night View."
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 266
  Caption: "Summit of the Sierras," c. 1915, shows railroad tracks traversing the mountains.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 317
  Caption: "Opening Day, Nov. 12, 1936, San Francisco, Oakland Bay Bridge, Before the Traffic Started." View of the San Francisco terminus of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Built between May 1933 and its opening on November 12, 1936, the Bay Bridge's design combined three different types of bridge-building technology over the five miles it covers between San Francisco and Oakland: a suspension span, a cantilevered span, and a tunnel. At the time of its completion the bridge was the longest steel structure on the globe. It also featured the deepest bridge pier ever built, and the world's largest bore tunnel.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 090
  Caption: "Boulder Dam. View Taken From Launch on Boulder Lake," c. 1935, shows Lake Mead, the largest man-made reservoir in the United States, providing water to the states of Arizona, California, and Nevada.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 344
  No Caption: An ice skating rink at Yosemite National Park, c. 1932.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 101
  No Caption: Fountain of Spring (Furio Piccirilli, sculptor), in the Court of the Four Seasons at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 063
  Caption: "Stanford Chapel," c. 1912-1915. Façade of Stanford Memorial Chapel, designed by Charles A. Coolidge and dedicated in 1903. The church was commissioned by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband, Leland Stanford. See also 96-07-08-alb04-202 and 215.