Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 449
  Caption: "Selling enchiladas - street delicatessen, Mexico City." William and Grace McCarthy (wearing hats on right side of photograph) with a group of unidentified people, some of whom are selling enchiladas.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 253
  No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy feeding a buck deer with antlers in velvet.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 254
  No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy feeding a buck deer with antlers in velvet.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 128
  Caption: "Picnic at Fishcamp," c. 1908, shows William McCarthy (third from right) with unidentified people posing for a photograph at Fishcamp in Mariposa County.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 266
  No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy on the steep trail to the summit of the iconic Half Dome, in the Yosemite Valley. The cables used to assist hikers follow a route laid down by George Anderson, who reached the summit in 1875.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 271
  No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy standing with child riding a donkey in campground at Yosemite National Park.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 273
  No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy standing with small child riding a donkey in campground at Yosemite National Park.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 279
  No Caption: A group photograph of William and Grace McCarthy with friends and family at the Riverside Villa resort in Healdsburg, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 277
  No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy offering food to a bear sitting in a clearing.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 038
  Caption: "San Diego Mission," with small photograph inset of unidentified landscape, c. 1905. See also 96-07-08-alb08-228 with caption: "Old Mission, San Diego." William McCarthy standing before the dilapidated church building of Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá (Mission San Diego). The first mission established in California, Mission San Diego was founded by Father Junipero Serra in 1769.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 279
  No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy feeding a buck deer in velvet, in a campground.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 281
  No caption, c. 1935. William (seated at left end of front row) and Grace (seated at right end of back row) McCarthy with five other unidentified people.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 287
  No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy standing at the doorway of a snowed-in cabin in Yosemite National Park.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 035
  Caption: "Lake Tahoe Beach." Beach scene, with William McCarthy standing on dock.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 178
  Caption: "An Automobile Detour in Utah," c. 1915-1920. William McCarthy standing with three automobiles parked on and alongside railroad tracks, at an unidentified location in Utah.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 054
  No Caption. Group photograph of eleven unidentified individuals, likely friends and family of the McCarthys, and William McCarthy (fifth from left in checkered suit) sitting at the base of a large oak tree, at an unidentified location, c. 1908.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 184
  No caption, c. 1915-1920. Several people (including William and Grace McCarthy at the far left) picnicking at an unidentified location.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 131
  Caption: "St. Josephs Oratore [sic] - Montreal," c. 1925. William and Grace McCarthy beneath the entry arch to the complex containing St. Joseph's Oratory, a Roman Catholic basilica and shrine. Work on the building began in 1924, and continued until 1967. Only the first level of the building had been completed when this photograph was taken.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 187
  Caption: "My Trip in an Aeroplane -- Camp Lewis, Wash.," c. 1917-1920. William McCarthy in the rear seat of a biplane, either getting ready to take off or having just landed.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 061
  Caption: "Summit -- Tahoe, Placerville Highway." William and Grace McCarthy standing in front of a small wood shed, likely along what is now U.S. Route 50 east of Placerville.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 064
  Caption: "Fallen Leaf Lake." Grace and William McCarthy standing on wood plank dock, with lake and mountains in background.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 066
  Caption: "Bullion Bend Monument," c. 1920. William and Grace McCarthy standing in front of an automobile, near a stone monument. Bullion Bend, located between Pollock Pines and Whitehall in the historic Highway 50 corridor, was the scene of a stagecoach robbery in 1864 in which silver bullion was stolen by robbers claiming to need the money in order to support the Confederate Army.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 127
  Caption: "Havana Cemetery, Second Oldest in the World. July 4, 34." Several memorials in Colon Cemetery can be seen in this photograph. Founded in 1876, Colon Cemetery replaced Havana's first cemetery, Espada Cemetery, after a cholera epidemic in 1868 revealed the need for a new, larger facility. Today, the Colon Cemetery holds more than 800,000 graves. It is not known where William McCarthy found reference to this being the "second oldest" cemetery in the world, as California State Archives staff could not verify that statistic.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 195
  Caption: "Bijou Inn -- Lake Tahoe.," c. 1915-1920. William and Grace McCarthy standing next to automobile near Bijou Inn and store in the Lake Tahoe area.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 014
  Caption: "Yellowstone Transportation Bus," c. 1923. William and Grace McCarthy (second row from the back, middle and right-hand seats) and a group of unidentified people stop for a photograph while sitting in an eleven-passenger, open-roofed touring bus in Yellowstone National Park. The touring bus, likely made by White Motor Company, was one of a fleet of such vehicles maintained by the Yellowstone Park Transportation Company.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 206
  Caption: "Clear Lake.," c. 1920. William (second from left) and Grace (far right) McCarthy seated around an automobile in a picnic area or campground, with two unidentified women.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 040
  Caption: "Feeding the Wood Chucks [sic]- Yellowstone," c. 1923. William McCarthy crouches down to feed an eager groundhog balancing on his hind legs in this photograph.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 231
  Caption: "Searsville Lake," c. 1920. William McCarthy and unidentified woman on horseback in front of trees and bushes. Searsville Lake, formed by the Searsville Dam, is located in San Mateo County, California. See also 96-07-08-alb04-232.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 235
  Caption: "Cedar Brook," c. 1920. William and Grace McCarthy (at left) standing with two unidentified people, with house in background and automobile next to them.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 307
  Caption: "Glacier Point (x)," c. 1917. In this photograph of the walls of Yosemite Valley, taken from the valley floor, William McCarthy has marked the location of Glacier Point with an "x." Glacier Point, on the south wall of the valley 3,200 feet above what is now known as Half Dome Village, provides panoramic views of the valley and many of its features.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 243
  No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people in swim suits posing on a river bank. William McCarthy is standing in the middle row, third from the left.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 244
  Caption: "Russian River," c. 1920. Group of unidentified people in swimsuits on riverbank. William McCarthy is kneeling in the front row, second from the right, while Grace appears in the third row, second from the right.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 117
  Caption: "San Diego Mission," c. 1915-1916. William and Grace McCarthy standing in front of ruins of Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in 1769.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 245
  No caption, c. 1920. William McCarthy (far right) and two unidentified women, all in swimsuits.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 118
  Caption: "Hotel del Coronado," c. 1915-1916. William and Grace McCarthy and unidentified man with automobile in front of the Hotel del Coronado. At the time it opened in 1888, this hotel was the largest beach resort in the world.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 119
  Caption: "Tiajuana [sic] Mexico," c. 1915-1916. William (sporting a serape and wide-brimmed hat) and Grace McCarthy, with two unidentified individuals, with their automobile in Tijuana, Mexico.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 304
  Caption: "California Here We Come. Donner Monument. In Our Home State Again After Five Months Tour. October 7, 1934." William and Grace McCarthy took this photograph of the Pioneer Monument when they arrived back in California after a five month road trip to the East Coast. The Pioneer Monument, featuring a pair of pioneers with their two children looking west, was first dedicated on June 6, 1918 to commemorate those who emigrated to California in the mid 1800s. Today, the monument and surrounding area is known as Donner Memorial State Park. The park was established in memory of the ill-fated Donner Party, a group of emigrants whose wagon train was caught in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the winter of 1846-47. The Pioneer Monument's stone pedestal stands twenty-two feet high, the height of the snow that the party had to contend with. Of the eighty-seven people in the wagon train, only forty-eight survived to be rescued the following spring. Some of the survivors are said to have resorted to cannibalism in order to survive.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 121
  Caption: "Border Monument, Tiajuana [sic] Mexico." William and Grace McCarthy standing in front of the monument placed at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 251
  Caption: "Big Basin," c. 1935. William and Grace McCarthy posing in front of large redwood tree in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz County. The tree is likely "Animal Tree," given the large burl growths.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 147
  Caption: "On the Banks of the Yuba River.," c. 1920. Grace McCarthy standing with automobile on graveled country road, with the Yuba River visible on the right side of the photograph.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 299
  Caption: "Yosemite Falls," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy two unidentified friends pose for a photograph on the trail to Yosemite Falls. Both Upper and Lower Fall can be seen in this photograph. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 001a
  The frontispiece of this photograph album reads "Fotos [sic] in Canada, Washington, Oregon, California & Mexico. By Wm. McCarthy."
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 239
  Caption: "Searsville Lake," c. 1920. Group of unidentified people posing for photograph, with two horses, with Grace McCarthy standing at the far right.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 240
  No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people posing for photograph in park setting. Grace McCarthy appears seated in the middle row, at far left.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 318
  Caption: "Glacier Point - Overhanging Rock," c. 1935. Grace McCarthy poses for a photograph at Glacier Point's iconic overhanging rock. Glacier Point, on the south wall of the valley 3,200 feet above what is now known as Half Dome Village, provides panoramic views of the valley and many of its features. By the time this photograph was taken, safety railings had been installed at the Point to prevent visitors from tumbling over the cliff while trying to get the best views.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 207
  Caption: "Municipal Bldg. N.Y." c. 1925. The statue Civic Virtue Triumphant Over Unrighteousness (Frederick William MacMonnies, sculptor) stands in the foreground of this photograph. The statue, unveiled in 1922, now stands in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. New York City's Municipal Building rises above the statue in the background. Built between 1907-1914 and designed by architect William M. Kendall, the Municipal Building was constructed in order to consolidate several different municipal agencies under one roof and thereby save the city rent for multiple buildings. In 2015, it was renamed the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building, after a former New York City mayor.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 089
  Caption: "London Guarantee & Wrigley Bldg. Chicago," c. 1923. This photograph, taken at street level, features the London Guarantee Building (with the small cupola still under construction at its top) and the Wrigley Building (just to the right of the London Guarantee Building). The London Guarantee Building (also called the London Guaranty and Accident Building), designed by Alfred S. Alschuler, was completed in 1923. The Wrigley Building, constructed by the famous chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr., consists of two towers. The south tower was completed in 1921, while the north tower was finished in 1924 (you can make out construction scaffolding on the top of the tower in this photograph).
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 194
  No caption, c. 1915-1920. Photograph taken from plane, with an unidentified lake below.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 071
  Caption: "Chief Manitou of Taos N. M. - Manitou Soda Springs," c. 1923. Grace McCarthy, wearing a Native American headdress and beaded blanket, stands next to a smiling Pedro Cajete in traditional dress. Mr. Cajete, better known to many as Chief Manitou, was a Native American of the Tewa tribe near Santa Fe, New Mexico, who was hired to promote tourism in the Manitou Springs/Colorado Springs area of Colorado. He often sold trinkets and posed for photographs with tourists near the mouth of Manitou Cave, resulting in his moniker Chief Manitou.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 338
  No Caption: Grace McCarthy feeding a deer at Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.