Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 189
  Caption: "Main Street Watsonville," c. 1910, shows a street scene in Watsonville, Santa Cruz County.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 317
  Caption: "Storehouse Rebuilt," shows the reconstructed storehouse at the Benicia Arsenal, undated.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 243
  Caption: "Connecticut River, Greenfield. Mass. Sept. 6, 1934." Picturesque view of the Connecticut River, flanked by rolling hills and mirroring the clouds in the sky above.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 267
  Caption: "Crater Lake and Wizard Island," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 024
  No Caption: The colonnades at the Palace of the Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 152
  Caption: "Promenade," of an unidentified building at the Panama-California Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 030
  No Caption: A view of the reconstruction on Market Street after the 1906 earthquake and fires, c. 1907.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 074
  Caption: "Stow Lake," in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, c. 1910. Stow lake is a manmade lake in Golden Gate Park dating back to 1893. Visitors still enjoy Stow Lake today, engaging in activities such as boating and picnicking by the lake.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 200
  Caption: "SAN DIEGO HARBOR.," c. 1905. View of several ships in San Diego Harbor.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 014
  Caption: "Santa Monica," c. 1935, shows the Santa Monica pier with Auto Park, Overlook Hotel and Apartments, and various shops, restaurants, and amusements.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 391
  Caption: "Primitive method of ploughing, Tizayuca, Mexico."
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 243
  Caption: "Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City -- Utah.," c. 1916. View of the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Truman O. Angell, architect) in Salt Lake City, Utah, dedicated in 1893. The Brigham Young Monument (also known as the Pioneer Monument) stands at the left. Designed by Cyrus Edwin Dallin, this statue commemorating one of the founders of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints was first displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and moved to its post at Main and South Temple Streets in Salt Lake City in 1897.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 058
  Caption: "Union Square & Dewey Monument," c. 1908. St. Francis Hotel at Union Square, with the Dewey Monument in the foreground (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), which commemorated U.S. Admiral George Dewey's naval victory at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American War of 1898. The luxury hotel opened in 1904, and, fortunately, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. It was expanded in 1913, and 1972, making it one of the largest hotels in the city.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 181
  Caption: "Canyon and Trestle Mt Tamalpais RR.," c. 1907. Muir Woods Railway, established in 1896 as a scenic tourist railway between Mill Valley and the east peak of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 004
  Caption: "Ocean Beach, San Francisco," c. 1925. Panorama of Ocean Beach, showing crowds not only at the beach but also at San Francisco's Playland, a series of seaside attractions and rides including a carousel, Fun House, and the Big Dipper rollercoaster. Entrepreneurs began erecting concessions and "thrill" rides at the location in the late nineteenth century. By 1913 the area was known as Chutes at the Beach. In 1923, brothers George and Leo Whitney began to purchase the attractions, eventually coming to own the entirety of what became known as Playland. The amusement park was torn down in 1972.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 258
  Caption: "Mountains in Yosemite," c. 1917. View of rock cliffs and domes in the mountains surrounding Yosemite Valley.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 062
  Caption: "Court of Palms," shows The Pioneer,(Solon Borglum, sculptor) in the Court of Palms at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 190
  Caption: "Shasta Springs," resort in Siskiyou County, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 318
  No Caption: Shows a group of unidentified women posing on the grounds of the Benicia Arsenal, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 244
  Caption: "Starrett Tool Works, Athol, Massachusetts. Sept. 6, 1934." The Starrett Tool Works was founded in 1880, when Laroy Sunderland Starrett started a tool shop in Athol. He later expanded the facility, until by 1906 the company employed more than 1,000 workers in the manufacture of precision tools. By the time Starrett died in 1922, the company had achieved global recognition, establishing offices in more than a dozen countries. Starrett is still in operation today.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 142
  Caption: "A pass through lava walls. The Golden Gate of Yellowstone National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 268
  Caption: "Highway - Crater Lake Natl. Park to Medford, Oregon," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 025
  Caption: "Palace of Fine Arts," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 153
  No Caption: View of the interior of the California building at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 115
  Caption: "Hotel Vendome. San Jose.," c. 1910. View of the Hotel Vendome, a resort hotel built in San Jose in 1889. The hotel was demolished in 1930, the land subdivided and sold as residential lots.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 031
  No Caption: A view of the Ferry Building, located at the end of Market Street along the San Francisco Embarcadero, which survived the 1906 earthquake and fires with little damage.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 075
  Caption: "St. Francis Hotel," c. 1905. St. Francis Hotel at Union Square and the Dewey Monument in the foreground (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), which commemorated U.S. Admiral George Dewey's naval victory at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American War of 1898. The luxury hotel opened in 1904 and fortunately suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. It was expanded in 1913, and 1972, making it one of the largest hotels in the city.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 015
  Caption: "Ocean Park - Los Angeles," c. 1935 shows a view of the Ocean Park Pier amusement zone in Santa Monica.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 182
  Caption: "Profile Rock Mt Tamalpais," c. 1907, shows a rock formation that resembles a human profile at Mount Tamalpais in Marin County.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 005
  Caption: "City Hall, San Francisco.," c. 1925. View of the Beaux Arts-style building that replaced San Francisco's City Hall after the original building was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. Designed by architect Arthur Brown, Jr., the building occupies two full city blocks. See also 96-07-08-alb09-003, 96-07-08-alb10-001, and 96-07-08-alb11-001.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 191
  Caption: " Monte Rio." Boat landing and foot bridge at C.W. Meadows' place of business at Monte Rio, along the Russian River in Sonoma County, California, c. 1910. See also 96-07-08-alb03-008.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 319
  Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Harem," c. 1918, shows a group of unidentified women wearing face masks at the Benicia Arsenal.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 122
  Caption: "Park Lake in Havana -- Cuba -- July 4, 1934." A calm lake surrounded by trees and other vegetation.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 245
  Caption: "Mohawk Trail, Hoosac Mountains, Massachusetts. Greenfield Mass to Albany New York, Sept 7, 1934." Hairpin turn on the Mohawk Trail, a scenic highway in Massachusetts. The Trail, originally a trade route for Native American tribes, was adopted as the route for the first scenic road constructed in the state. A gravel road was built along the route between 1912 and 1914, and later expanded as automobile traffic increased nation-wide. It is now part of Massachusetts Route 2.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 143
  Caption: "Obsidian Cliff - Mountain of Natural Glass - Yellowstone Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 269
  Caption: "Main St. Medford, Oregon. Medford 11000 Population," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 026
  Caption: "The Lagoon," near the Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 154
  Caption: "California Building Tower," at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 032
  No Caption: Mission Delores, the oldest intact building still standing in San Francisco today, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. The parish church next to it was greatly damaged and rebuilt as the Mission Dolores Basilica, opened in 1918.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 202
  Caption: "Coronado Hotel Grounds.," c. 1910. View of the Coronado Hotel, with landscaped grounds in the foreground. At the time it opened in 1888, this hotel was the largest beach resort in the world. The Ballroom Tower, the highest point of the building, is 120 feet tall.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 016
  Caption: "Oil Wells, Venice Beach, Los Angeles," c. 1935, shows numerous oil wells along the shoreline of Venice Beach in Los Angeles.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 245
  Caption: "Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City." View of the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Truman O. Angell, architect) in Salt Lake City, Utah, dedicated in 1893. Portions of the surrounding areas of Salt Lake City can be seen in the background. See also 96-07-08-alb11-300.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 183
  Caption: "Double Bow Knot Mt Tamalpais," c. 1907. A bird's eye view of the twisty road up Mount Tamalpais in Marin County.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 006
  Caption: "Ocean Beach, San Francisco," c. 1925. Panorama of Ocean Beach, showing crowds not only at the beach but also at San Francisco's Playland, a series of seaside attractions and rides including a carousel, Fun House, and the Big Dipper rollercoaster. Entrepreneurs began erecting concessions and "thrill" rides at the location in the late nineteenth century. By 1913 the area was known as Chutes at the Beach. In 1923, brothers George and Leo Whitney began to purchase the attractions, eventually coming to own the entirety of what became known as Playland. The amusement park was torn down in 1972.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 192
  Caption: "Chino Avenue-Chino Cal," c. 1915, shows a long, dirt road through a grove of trees in Chino, California.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 001a
  This clipping from an unidentified newspaper or newsletter features a 1946 article by A. L. Simon called "How To Run A Bridge." The article discusses the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, opened ten years before the article was written.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 246
  Caption: "Hudson River Bridge, Albany, New York. Sept. 7, 1934." View of an automobile bridge in the foreground, with a concrete deck, and what appears to be a railroad bridge, possibly of the bascule or swing type, in the background.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 144
  Caption: "Boiling Pools at Norris Basin - Yellowstone National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 270
  Caption: "Loop in Oregon Caves Highway," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 155
  Caption: "Panama-California Exposition, San Diego," shows a view of an elaborately decorated building at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.