Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 083
  No Caption: c. 1910. Unidentified young woman standing on a porch with a pet lamb on a leash.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 397
  Caption: "Palace of Fine Arts or National Theater [sic] - built of white marble. Work started in 1900, complete in 1935, cost 35,000,000 pesos." The Palacio de Bellas Artes, is considered the cultural center of Mexico City. It houses the Museum of Architecture, and the National Theater, a performance space for music, dance, and theatre. Murals by renown Mexican artists such as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Jose Clemente Orozco, and others are exhibited on the top floor and other galleries throughout the building.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 249
  Caption: "State Capitol Building -- Salt Lake City," c. 1916. View of Utah's State Capitol Building, designed by Richard K.A. Kletting and built between 1912 and 1916.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 187
  Caption: "Jefferson Square," c. 1906. A view of tents in Jefferson Square in San Francisco, likely for refugees who were left homeless after the earthquake and fires.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 137
  Caption: "N.Y. State Capitol - Albany." New York State's Capitol Building was constructed between 1867 and 1899. The initial architect, Thomas Fuller, designed the first floor in a Classical or Romanesque style. He was replaced by Leopold Eidlitz and Henry Hobson Richardson, who designed the next two floors in a Renaissance style. The final architect to preside over the project, Isaac G. Perry, completed the building in a Victorian-Romanesque style. See also 96-07-08-alb11-247.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 264
  Caption: "Potato Race," c. 1917. Several horseback riders holding long poles skirmish around a bucket in what appears to be a game similar to polo, played with a potato. A crowd has gathered to watch the game, while the rock cliff walls of Yosemite Valley tower in the background. Given the date, this was likely part of Independence Day festivities in the Yosemite Valley.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 068
  Caption: "Colonnade. Agricultural Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-052.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 196
  Caption: "Casino Santa Cruz," c. 1910-1915, on the Santa Cruz boardwalk, opened in 1907, replacing the original 1904 casino that had burned down in 1906.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 250
  Caption: "Niagara Falls, Canada, Sept. 10, 1934." View of a portion of the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 148
  Caption: "Jupiter Terrace - Mammoth Springs -Yellowstone Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 274
  Caption: "Fairy Dell - Big Tree Grove near Crescent City, Calif.," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 031
  Caption: "Court of the Universe from Tower of Jewels," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 159
  Caption: "Cal. Building Entrance P.C. Exp. July 18, 1915," at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 121
  Caption: "Brothers Light House" and "Scenes on the Sacramento River.," c. 1920. Shows the island and structures associated with the East Brother Island Lighthouse, lit in 1874 in San Rafael Bay near Richmond, California. The light was automated in 1969. After restoration in the early 1980s, the lighthouse now operates as a bed-and-breakfast.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 037
  No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb05-018 with caption: "Italian Refugee Hut S.F. 1906." Makeshift hut with four unidentified men standing in doorway. After the earthquake and fire that destroyed much of San Francisco in April 1906, hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. Many of these people established temporary refugee camps, using debris from the destruction to cobble together shelters.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 081
  Caption: "Stockton Asylum." Stockton, California, c. 1906. The Stockton Insane Asylum was established in 1851, completed in 1853, and was the first public mental health hospital in California. It remained a functioning state hospital until 1995.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 084
  Caption: "Pleasant Beach, Wash.," c. 1908-1912. View from across a bay in Puget Sound, looking toward the Pleasant Beach Hotel. Built before the turn of the twentieth century, this resort hotel featured forty rooms, a bowling alley, billiards room, swimming pool, and a pavilion. The resort came to be known as the "Coney Island" of Puget Sound.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 207
  Caption: "115 Co., Fort Rosecrans.," c. 1905. View of the 115th Company of the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, standing in formation. The 115th was formed at the San Diego Barracks in 1901 and subsequently moved to Fort Rosecrans on Point Loma near San Diego. They remained at the fort until 1924 when the company was moved to Puget Sound in Washington.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 021
  Caption: "Alligator said to be over 500 years old. Alligator Farm, Los Angeles," c. 1935, shows a large alligator at the animal-themed park, which was a major city tourist attraction from 1907 to 1953.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 397a
  No Caption: A two-cent Mexican postage stamp.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 250
  Caption: "Tabernacle -- Salt Lake City," c. 1916. View of the domed Salt Lake Tabernacle, built from 1864-1867. The Tabernacle housed meetings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints until new facilities were constructed in 2000. The Tabernacle is home to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and is considered to be one of the most acoustically perfect buildings in the world due to its unique dome-shaped roof.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 065
  Caption: "Tunnel Entrance to Music Stand, G.G. Park," c. 1906. One of three pedestrian tunnels leading to the music concourse in Golden Gate Park.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 188
  Caption: "A Typical Italian Refugee Camp," c. 1906. Makeshift hut with four unidentified men standing in doorway. After the earthquake and fire that destroyed much of San Francisco in April 1906, hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. Many of these people established temporary refugee camps, using debris from the destruction to cobble together shelters.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 138
  Caption: "Albany Street Scene," c. 1925. A street in Albany, lined with cars and trollies.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 069
  No Caption: Unidentified man and woman at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-053.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 197
  Caption: "Casino Santa Cruz," c. 1910-1915, on the Santa Cruz boardwalk, opened in 1907, replacing the original 1904 casino that had burned down in 1906. See also 96-07-08-alb03-007.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 251
  Caption: "Niagara Falls. Sept. 10, 1934." View of Horseshoe Falls, 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 10, Photograph 149
  Caption: "View from Jupiter Terrace, of Park headquarters. Mammoth Hot Springs - Yellowstone National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 275
  Caption: "The Rocky Coast near Eureka, Calif.," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 032
  Caption: "Beauty and the Beast Fountain" (Edgar Walter, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 160
  Caption: "Cabrilla [sic] Bridge." Built for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, the Cabrillo Bridge continues to provide access between Balboa Park and the uptown area of San Diego.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 038
  No Caption: The Californian and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company Building in Crockett, Contra Costa County, California, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 082
  Caption: "Bow of the Connecticut," unidentified location, undated.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 085
  Caption: "Dry dock, Bremerton.," c. 1908-1912. View of a dry dock at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington. Established in 1891 as a naval station, it became Naval Yard Puget Sound in 1901. During World War I the shipyard constructed hundreds of ships to support the war effort, while in World War II, the shipyard was dedicated primarily to repairing damaged ships. Today, it contains a portion of the U.S. Navy's mothball fleet (ships retired but retained in case of future need), as well as building, repairing, and maintaining sea-going vessels of all kinds.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 022
  Caption: "Alligator Farm, Los Angeles," c. 1935, shows a large group of alligators in a pen.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 397b
  No Caption: A four-cent Mexican postage stamp.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 251
  Caption: "Saltair. Salt Lake." View of the first Saltair resort pavilion, constructed in 1893. Designed by Richard K.A. Kletting, the pavilion hovered above the Great Salt Lake on more than 2,000 posts and pilings. The resort was a popular spot for Mormon families, only fifteen miles from Salt Lake City and overseen by Church leaders. The Church sold the pavilion in 1906. It was later destroyed by fire in 1925.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 189
  Caption: "Toppling House on Howard Street," 1906. shows two Queen Anne-style houses that have toppled off their foundations after the earthquake.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 012
  Caption: "Main Street Ogden," c. 1923. Street scene in Ogden, showing a broad roadway used by pedestrians and automobiles, flanked by trees on the left and businesses on the right.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 139
  Caption: "Watervliet Arsenal Entrance," c. 1925. A tree-lined driveway to the Watervliet Arsenal Entrance. The Arsenal was founded in 1813 in Watervliet, New York, to support the War of 1812. Today the Arsenal houses the U.S. Army's Benét Laboratories, part of the Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 128
  Caption: "Tomb of President Gomez, Havana. July 4th 1934." José Miguel Gómez y Gómez was instrumental in the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898), and also served as Cuba's President from 1909-1913. Although he died in New York, his remains were interred in the Colon Cemetery in Havana.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 252
  Caption: "Niagara Falls, Sept. 10, 1934." View of a portion of the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 150
  Caption: "Butte, population 40,000. The city of Butte is honeycombed underneath by numerous copper mines. The mining section, Butte, Mo. one mile high & one mile deep," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 276
  Caption: "Redwood Highway near Scotia," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 033
  Caption: "Court of the Universe," with the Tower of Jelwels in the background, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 161
  No Caption: Cabrillo Bridge between Balboa Park and the uptown area of San Diego.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 123
  No caption, c. 1920. Sacramento River scene, with trees and shrubs lining both banks.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 039
  No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-203 with caption: "Fillmore, the new Market Street," c. 1907. A view of a busy Fillmore Street indicating that much of the city's business has moved from Market Street during reconstruction after the earthquake.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 209
  Caption: "Coronado Tent City.," c. 1910. Beach scene near the Coronado Hotel, showing groups of people enjoying a day at the sea shore. Established in 1900 for travelers who could not afford to stay in the resort hotel, the Coronado Tent City consisted of a grid of streets lined with furnished tents, near the sea shore. It also featured restaurants, a library, soda fountain, theater, bandstand, and other recreational facilities.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 023
  Caption: "Baby Ostriches 3 weeks old. Ostrich Farm, Los Angeles," c. 1935.