Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 142
  Caption: "Netherlands" Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 020
  No Caption: The Cliff House, San Francisco, California, c. 1905. The Victorian structure shown here is the third iteration of the Cliff House, constructed in 1896. It was later destroyed by a fire, in 1907.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 064
  Caption: "Totem Pole, Seattle." Seattle, Washington, c. 1905. 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 arsonist 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 08, Photograph 067
  Caption: "Block-house, Fort Casey.," 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-alb08-019.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 004
  Caption: "China Town, San Francisco, May 21, 1935," shows a busy street scene in the Chinese district of San Francisco.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 233
  Caption: "Second Ave. -- Seattle.," c. 1915. Street scene showing Seattle's Second Avenue. Electric streetcars and the Smith Tower can be seen in the distance. See also 96-07-08-alb08-091.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 048
  Caption: "Trestle in Northern California," c. 1906, shows a railroad trestle nestled among trees and hills.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 298
  Caption: "The Yum Um Tree, This is Where it Began, July 12, 1908." A view of a large tree with a dense vine wrapped around its bark.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 121
  Caption: "Niagara Falls," c. 1925. View of Horseshoe Falls, the largest 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 09, Photograph 248
  Caption: "Nevada Falls [sic]," c. 1917. Nevada Fall is a 594-foot high waterfall upstream of Vernal Fall on the Merced River, in the Little Yosemite Valley.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 052
  Caption: "Court of the Universe Looking East," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-040.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 180
  Caption: "Mission Carmel," c. 1918, at Carmel-by-the-Sea in Monterey County, was established by Spanish Franciscans in 1770.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 111
  Caption: "A Key West Home Built of Corral [sic] Stone. July 2, 34." View of a multi-story residence made of coral.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 258
  Caption: "Crooked River Canyon, 26 Miles from Bend, Oregon," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 015
  Caption: "Fountain of Energy" (A. Stirling Calder, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 143
  Caption: "Food Products and Educational Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 105
  No caption, c. 1910. Four large-caliber mortars with associated gun crews at target practice. See also 96-07-08-alb05-106 and 107.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 021
  No Caption: The entrance to the Presidio Main Post, with cannon balls lining the drive, in San Francisco, c. 1910.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 068
  Caption: "'THE DAUNTLESS' in PUGET SOUND.," c. 1908-1912. View of the Dauntless, a steamship built in 1899. This ship spent most of its career traveling Puget Sound between Port Townsend and Irondale. She was destroyed in a storm in 1923.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 191
  Caption: "Japanese Garden, Golden Gate Park.," c. 1905. View of the five-acre Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Established in 1894 by George Turner Marsh for the Midwinter Exposition of that year, it is the oldest public Japanese Tea Garden in the U.S.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 005
  Caption: "Pasa [sic] Robles Hotel, May 22, 1935." View of the Hotel el Paso de Robles (pass of the oaks). This resort hotel opened in 1891, and featured a variety of amenities including a mineral hot springs "plunge" bath. The hotel burned down in 1940, and was replaced by the building that is still in operation today as the Paso Robles Inn.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 382
  Caption: "Huasteca Indians transporting pottery - Tamazunchale, Mexico."
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 049
  Caption: "Landslide, Brookdale Farm, Pajaro," c. 1908, shows trees and debris left scattered from a landslide.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 299
  Caption: "Big Tree Grove - Santa Cruz," c. 1910.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 122
  Caption: "Niagara Falls," c. 1925. View of Horseshoe Falls, the largest 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 07, Photograph 053
  Caption: "Court of the Universe Colonnades," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-041.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 181
  Caption: "San Juan Mission," c. 1918, in San Benito County was established by Spanish Franciscans in 1797.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 112
  Caption: "Spanish Type Home -- Key West. July 2, 1934." View of a multi-story residence in Key West. Much of the building is obscured by surrounding vegetation.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 235
  Caption: "The Walsh Home, Brooklyn, New York. Sept. 2, 1934." View of a three-story brick house or apartment building, with a park or empty lot on one side. See also 96-07-08-alb09-202.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 259
  Caption: "Crater Lake, Oregon - View from Watchman Point," c. 1935. Located in the Crater Lake National Park, Crater Lake is a caldera lake formed about 7,700 years ago by the collapse of the volcano, Mount Mazama. Its 1,949 foot depth makes it the deepest lake in the United States.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 016
  No Caption: Fountain of Energy (A. Stirling Calder, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 144
  Caption: "Band Concourse," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 106
  No caption, c. 1910. Large-caliber mortars with associated gun crews at target practice. At least one gun has just been, or is about to be, fired, given that the men are all holding their hands against their ears. See also 96-07-08-alb05-105 and 107.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 022
  No Caption: The Cliff House, overlooking bathers at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California, c. 1905. Unidentified people enjoying the surf and beach at Ocean Beach, overlooked by the iconic San Francisco Cliff House. The Victorian structure shown here is the third iteration of the Cliff House, constructed in 1896. It was later destroyed by a fire, in 1907.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 066
  Caption: "S.P. Shasta Route." Southern Pacific train on the Shasta route with Mt. Shasta in the background, c. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 069
  Caption: "Port Townsend Bicycle Path.," c. 1910. Image of a rural path or road, surrounded by trees and vegetation, with a hill in the distance. The bicycle made its first appearance in the Puget Sound area in the late 1870s. Within twenty years, thousands of enthusiasts had adapted the new mode of transportation. Such enthusiasts often formed clubs, such as the Queen City Good Roads Club, based in Seattle (south of Port Townsend). These clubs advocated, constructed, and helped to maintain pathways dedicated specifically to bicycle traffic. Ironically, the efforts made by the bicyclists to generally improve roadways contributed to the rise of another new mode of transportation -- the automobile.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 192
  No Caption: c. 1910. Ocean shore scene with waves and high spray. The Vue de L'eau (View of the Water) was a station on the Santa Cruz, Garfield Park and Capitola Electric Railway electric streetcar line. Built in 1891, the station was located at the very end of the line, on a promontory overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It featured an observatory on the top story. The same company also built a casino, ballroom, and restaurant nearby. The station burned down in 1925. See also 96-07-08-alb05-074.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 006
  Caption: "Santa Barbara Mission, May 23, 1935," was established in 1786 by Spanish Franciscan monks.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 383
  No Caption: A section of a tourist brochure describing the route and road conditions from Tamazunchale to Mexico City.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 235
  Caption: "O.W.R. & N. R.R. Depot -- Seattle.," c. 1915. Station building for the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company, formed in 1910 from the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company as a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad. Designed by architect Daniel J. Patterson, the Beaux Arts-style station opened in 1911.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 174
  Caption: "City Hall Ruins." An expanded view of the destroyed City Hall after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Stacks and piles of bricks are lined up at the curb of the street, likely to be used for reconstruction.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 300
  No caption. A close-up view of a piece of unidentified heavy artillery.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 250
  Caption: "Yosemite," c. 1917. Yosemite's iconic Half Dome, a granite rock formation, as seen from the valley floor.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 054
  Caption: "Court of the Universe," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-042.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 182
  Caption: "San Juan," c. 1918, shows the Plaza Hotel, established in 1856, near Mission San Juan Bautista in San Benito County.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 260
  Caption: "Crater Lake - Arrow indicates Watchman Point," c. 1935. Located in the Crater Lake National Park, Crater Lake is a caldera lake formed about 7,700 years ago by the collapse of the volcano, Mount Mazama. Its 1,949 foot depth makes it the deepest lake in the United States.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 017
  No Caption: California's Capitol building and park grounds, with automobile in foreground, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 145
  Caption: "Buddha" statue within the Japan Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 107
  Caption: "Mortar Target Practice," c. 1910. Large-caliber mortars with associated gun crews at target practice. At least one gun has just been, or is about to be, fired, given that the men are all holding their hands against their ears. See also 96-07-08-alb05-105 and 107.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 023
  No Caption: Interior shot of the Sutro Baths, north of the Cliff House, c. 1910. Designed by Adolph Sutro in 1894, the bathhouses at one time covered three oceanfront acres just north of Ocean Beach and the Cliff House. Eventually, the Sutro Baths fell into disrepair and what was left of them burned down in 1966. Since 1973, the concrete ruins have been part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.