Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 280
  Caption: "Cliff House Burning," 1907. People standing on Ocean Beach watching the third Cliff House burning in San Francisco, in 1907. The original Cliff House was built in 1858. The second was built in 1863 and was destroyed by fire on Christmas day in 1894. The third Victorian- style Cliff House was completed in 1896, and although it survived the 1906 earthquake and fires, it burned to the ground in 1907, as seen in this image. A fourth Cliff House was then built with steel-reinforced concrete and opened in 1909.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 102
  Caption: "Jackson Park - Chicago," c. 1923. The Grand Basin at Jackson Park. This 500-acre park was originally designed for use as the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (also called the Chicago World's Fair), held in 1893. The Grand Basin was a large reflecting pool at the center of the Exposition, around which the main buildings were constructed.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 230
  Caption: "Unknown Soldiers Grave - Arlington Cemetry[sic]," c. 1925. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, also called the Tomb of the Unknowns, memorializes those U.S. military service members who died without their remains being later identified. The remains of the first Unknown Soldier, stemming from World War I and disinterred from a cemetery in France, were laid to rest in the tomb in 1921.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 033
  Caption: "Colonnades of the Palace of Fine Arts," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-8-alb01-023.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 161
  Caption: "Canada," shows exhibits inside the Canadian Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-139.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 289
  Caption: "The Lucky Pony," c. 1915, shows seven unidentified women posing with a pony at a campsite in Healdsburg.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 092
  Caption: "Seminole Indian Women Washing Clothes -- Everglades -- Fla. June 30, 1934." Two unidentified women and a small child washing clothing. Several articles of clothing are spread out to dry on a canoe lifted off the ground by sawhorses made of logs. They are likely Seminoles, a Native American tribe in 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 10, Photograph 113
  Caption: "Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah," c. 1935. The Salt Lake City Mormon Temple was opened in 1893 and is the largest temple (253,015 square feet) built by the Church of the Latter-day Saints.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 364
  No Caption: A page from a tourist brochure detailing information about Mexico, including agriculture, forestry, and mining and oil production.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 124
  No Caption: The Machinery Palace at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 086
  No caption, c. 1912-1915. Two unidentified women with four children, one of which (standing next to women at far left) is the same toddler who appears in 96-07-08-alb05-083 and 084.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 002
  Caption: "A Santa Cruz Big Tree," c. 1905, General Grant, located in Santa Cruz Big Tree Grove.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 046
  Caption: " Seaside Beach, Oregon," c. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 172
  Caption: "In the Siskiyou Mountains, Calif.," c. 1910. View of a train trestle, with the last car of a train passing over it.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 215
  Caption: "Smith Bldg. Seattle, Wash.," c. 1915. View of the neoclassical Smith Tower in Seattle, built by industrialist Lyman Cornelius Smith. At the time of its completion in 1914, the Smith Tower was the tallest building on the West Coast, until being superseded by the Space Needle in 1962.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 155
  Caption: "Santa Fe Depot, Los Angeles," c. 1910. The La Grande Station opened in 1893 and served as the main passenger terminal for the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe). The building, with its Moorish inspired architecture, was heavily damaged by the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and was eventually demolished in 1946.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 281
  Caption: "Soldier Life," c. 1910. A view of an unidentified man in military attire, and an unidentified woman, lying on the ground together under a tree, at an unidentified location.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 103
  Caption: "Office Bldg. Swift & Co - Chicago," c. 1923. The general office of Chicago's Swift and Co., founded by meat packing magnate Gustavus Franklin Smith, Sr. in the late nineteenth century.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 231
  Caption: "St. Louis Cathedral Built in 1794 by Don Andreas Almonastry Roxas - Jacksen[sic] Park - New Orleans." St. Louis Cathedral anchors one end of Jackson Square in New Orleans' French Quarter. The structure of the cathedral largely dates to the 1850 restoration and expansion of an older cathedral built on the site in 1793. Very little of the older church survived, although the central bell tower (added on to the older church in 1819) was reused in the new structure and is still extant today. A statue of Andrew Jackson mounted on a rearing horse (Clark Mills, sculptor) stands in the square in front of the cathedral. The sculpture was erected in 1856. See also 96-07-08-alb11-052.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 034
  No Caption: Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-024.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 162
  Caption: "Canada," shows the Canadian Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-140.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 114
  Caption: "Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho. 500,000 acres - established in 1867 - Shoshone and Bannock Tribes," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 240
  Caption: "Tatoosh Range - Rainier National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 365
  Caption: "Laredo, Texas - Highway entrance to Mexico at International bridge - U.S. Customs office on left. April 12, 1938."
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 125
  Caption: " South Gardens," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 087
  No caption, c. 1912-1915. Unidentified toddler standing in field holding teddy bear and ball, with buildings in distance. See also 96-07-08-alb05-083, 085, and 086.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 003
  Caption: "Landing Guns, Point Benito [sic]," c. 1906. This may be a misspelling and actually Point Bonita, in the San Francisco Bay.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 047
  Caption: "Driving Piles in the Breakers, Columbia River Jetty." c. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 173
  Caption: "SPORTS," c. 1917. Image of a pole vaulter attempting to clear a jump, with rows of men clad in military uniforms observing. The uniforms and the surrounding vegetation suggest that this may have taken place at Camp Lewis, Washington.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 216
  Caption: "Totem Pole -- Seattle, Wash.," c. 1915. View of the Tlingit totem pole in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The totem pole was stolen in 1899 by a group of businessmen, and erected in the square, then known as Pioneer Place. An arson destroyed this pole in 1938, but it was later replaced by another carved by the Tlingit tribe (who were also finally paid for the original pole).
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 031
  Caption: "Presidio's Mascot. The Man-faced Dog.," c. 1910, shows a small black and white dog sitting on a porch at the Presidio in San Francisco.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 156
  Caption: "Santa Fe Depot, San Diego," c. 1908. Built in 1887 for the California Southern Railroad Company, the small depot station was later demolished to make way for a much larger station, which opened in 1915.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 282
  Caption: "Soldier Life," c. 1910. Unidentified man firing heavy artillery at unidentified location.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 232
  Caption: "Carondelet St. - New Orleans," c. 1925. A bustling street scene in New Orleans.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 035
  Caption: "Palace of Fine Arts," with reflecting pool at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-025.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 163
  Caption: "Canadian Exhibit," shows a display of wildlife and livestock, in the Canadian Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 291
  Caption: "Healdsburg, Cal Aug 15, 1915," shows the McCarthys with a group of unidentified people on the Russian River at Healdsburg.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 094
  Caption: "Miami Beach -- Florida, June 30." Crowded beach scene with palm trees at the right and the water in the distance to the left.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 218
  Caption: "Montauk Lighthouse, Most Northern Point on Long Island, N.Y., Aug. 18, 1934." The Montauk Lighthouse, first lit in 1797, was the first lighthouse built in New York. Ezra L'Hommedieu designed the building as well as choosing its site on the eastern edge of Long Island. A renovation in 1860 raised the lighthouse to its current height of more than 110 feet. A larger lantern was installed at that time as well. Electrified in 1940, it is now a National Historic Landmark as well as an active lighthouse.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 115
  Caption: "Old Faithful Inn - Yellowstone National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 241
  Caption: "Narada Falls, Rainier Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 366
  Caption: "Indians crude way of obtaining water for home use - Vallecillo, Mexico," 1938, shows a Mexican man in an oxen-driven cart filling a pail with water from a river, while three boys watch from the shore in Vallecillo, Mexico.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 126
  No Caption: A large crowd enjoying the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 004
  Caption: "Work of Mounting Big Guns, Point Benito [sic]," c. 1906. This may actually be Point Bonita in the San Francisco Bay.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 048
  Caption: "Building the Jetty, Columbia River," c. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 217
  Caption: "On the Shasta Route -- Siskiyou Mountains," c. 1910. Train crossing trestle in Siskiyou Mountains in northern California or southern Oregon.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 032
  Caption: "Ferry Boat Newark." c. 1910, shows the Southern Pacific's ferryboat Newark in the San Francisco Bay.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 157
  Caption: "Street Scene, Los Angeles," c. 1908. A view of an early twentieth street scene in Los Angeles, with horse-drawn vehicles, trolley cars, and numerous buildings.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 283
  Caption: "Solider Life," c. 1910. A view of a group of soldiers, carrying long guns and supplies, and marching in formation at an unidentified location.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 105
  Caption: "View of Chicago From Boston Store Bldg," c. 1923. State Street, the Chicago Theatre, and the Wrigley Building (still under construction) can be seen in this bird's eye view of Chicago.