Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 401
  Caption: "Men unloading cement by carrying it in baskets on their heads - building construction - Puebla, Mexico, April 18, 1938."
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 255
  No caption. Three unidentified children posing on the stoop of a house in Chino, California.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 193
  Caption: "Fillmore St. Dec. 10, 1906," A view of a flooded Fillmore Street in San Francisco during the winter of 1906.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 016
  Caption: "Saltair Pavilion - Great Salt Lake," c.1923. Interior of the Saltair Pavilion on Utah's Great Salt Lake. Constructed in 1893 and designed by Richard K.A. Kletting, the Saltair resort set out to be the Western counterpart of Coney Island. 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 building in 1906. It was later destroyed by fire in 1925, but a second pavilion was quickly built.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 143
  Caption: "N.Y. City." View of Manhattan's skyline as viewed from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1934. See also 96-07-08-alb11-205.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 270
  Caption: "Sentinel Hotel," c. 1917. The Sentinel Hotel at Yosemite Village, with a granite cliff in the background and the Merced River in the foreground. Construction of the hotel began in 1876, and at the turn of the century it was the only hotel operating in the valley. Increased attendance as the twentieth century progressed resulted in the construction of other tourist areas such as Curry Village, and the Sentinel gradually became obsolete. The Sentinel and the complex of buildings that had grown up around it were torn down in the late 1930s.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 074
  Caption: "Western Arch," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-057.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 008
  Caption: "Berheimer [sic] Brothers Japanese Garden, Los Angeles, May 18, 1934." View of a portion of the grounds of the mansion built by brothers Adolph and Eugene Bernheimer in 1914, in the Hollywood Hills area. Palm trees dominate the view, and an Asian-inspired outbuilding is visible at the left.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 132
  Caption: "Havana Water Front -- Havana, Cuba. July 4, 1934." View of the waterfront at Havana from across the harbor.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 154
  Caption: "Lake McDonald - Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 280
  Caption: "Blue Lakes - Lake Co., Calif.," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 037
  Caption:" Arch - Court of the Universe-Eastern," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 165
  No Caption: Pedestrians seen walking towards the entrance to the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 043
  No Caption: 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 03, Photograph 087
  Caption: "Market St. S.F." Shows Market Street with intact buildings, trolleys, horse-drawn buggies and carriages, and people milling about. Most likely before the April 18, 1906 earthquake. C. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 090
  No Caption: c. 1908-1912. Side view of a disappearing coastal artillery gun. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 027
  No Caption: Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 402
  No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure, describing the towns of Cholula and Puebla.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 256
  No caption. Two unidentified children posing on stoop of a house in Chino, California.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 071
  Caption: "Pajaro River at Chittenden Trestle," c. 1906. A view of the Pajaro River, with the Chittenden Trestle seen in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 194
  Caption: "String of Cars, Market Street Ferry," 1906. A view of cable cars, people, and a scaffolded Ferry Building at the end of Market Street, after the 1906 earthquake.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 271
  Caption: "Sentinel Hotel," c. 1917. The Sentinel Hotel at Yosemite Village. Construction of this hotel began in 1876, and at the turn of the century it was the only hotel operating in the valley. Increased attendance as the twentieth century progressed resulted in the construction of other tourist areas such as Curry Village, and the Sentinel gradually became obsolete. The Sentinel and the complex of buildings that had grown up around it were torn down in the late 1930s.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 075
  Caption: "Varied Industries Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 203
  Caption: "Sulfur Springs," c. 1915, shows a large body of water, likely fed by sulfur springs, at an unidentified location.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 009
  Caption: "Olvera St. Mexican Market Place, Los Angeles, May 18, 1934." View of the Olvera Street Market in Los Angeles. In 1926, Christine Sterling began efforts to preserve the buildings on and around Olvera Street (one of the oldest parts of Los Angeles). After several years of struggle and fundraising, Olvera Street was closed to automobile traffic in 1929, and opened as the Paseo de Los Angeles in 1930. The street and its market quickly became popular tourist sites, promoters touting the area as "A Mexican Street of Yesterday in a City of Today."
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 155
  Caption: "Livingston Mountains - Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 281
  Caption: "Monterey Shore. - View from Highlands Inn, Calif.," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 038
  Caption:" Arch - Court of the Universe-Western," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 044
  No Caption: A view of the ferryboat, Solano, in Contra Costa County, California, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 088
  Caption: "Call Building Burning," shows the Call Building on Market and 3rd Streets on fire after the earthquake, with people and horses in the foreground. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 091
  No Caption: 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-alb05-233.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 028
  No Caption: " A stained glass reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in the Memorial Court of Honor at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 403
  Caption: "Avenida del Ayuntamiento - principal street of Puebla, Mexico. This is an attractive street - note the arcades on the right."
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 258
  Caption: "The Man with the Hoe," c. 1915. Unidentified, young child posing in front of a row of corn with hoe and oversized hat.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 072
  Caption: "College Lake, Watsonville," c. 1906, is an intermittent or seasonal lake, which was known at one time as Laguna Grande, and became known as College Lake sometime after 1869.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 195
  Caption: "Constructing the Loup, Market Street," 1906. A view of construction workers repairing the tracks on Market Street, with the scaffolded Ferry Building in the distance, and numerous pedestrians observing the effort.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 018
  Caption: "Castle Geyser - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Castle Geyser erupting in Yellowstone National Park. The geyser's name refers to the shape of the cone around the vent.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 076
  Caption: "Court of Palms," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-059 with caption: "Palm Avenue."
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 134
  Caption: "An Avenue of Cocoanut [sic] Palms, Palm Beach, Florida, July 8, 1934." Palm trees and manicured hedges line this street in Palm Beach.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 039
  Caption: " Court of the Universe - Looking West," with the Fountain of The Rising Sun (Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 001a
  No caption, 1913. U.S. Two-Cent commemorative postage stamp, celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal. The stamp, issued in 1913, features an image of two ships passing through the locks of the Canal.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 129
  Caption: "Steamer Damara. On Rocks at Fort Point." On October 8, 1910, the British steam ship Damara, loaded with a cargo of barley bound for England, ran onto the rocks below Fort Point at the entrance to the San Francisco Bay. It took eleven days to refloat the ship.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 045
  No Caption: A front page Seattle Daily Times article and photographs reporting on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, with the headline: "City Wiped Out! Fire Still Raging!" April 20, 1906.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 092
  No Caption: c. 1915. Street scene on Washington Street in Portland, Oregon, with an electric trolley, automobiles, and pedestrians. See also 96-07-08-alb05-181.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 215
  Caption: "U. S. S. Bennington (Exploded Boiler)" and "on July 21, boiler B exploded, being forced aft against the bulkhead between the fore and aft compartments." View of the exploded boiler of the USS Bennington. On July 21, 1905, while in San Diego Harbor, the Bennington's boiler exploded, killing sixty-six men and injuring many more.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 029
  No Caption: Chapel at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Glendale, Los Angeles, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 404
  Caption: Interior of the Church of San Francisco Acatepeck [sic] - Cholula." The church's construction was begun in 1590, with elaborate Spanish Baroque decorations added during the seventeenth century.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 073
  Caption: "Trestle over Pajaro River, Watsonville." c. 1910.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 196
  Caption: "Fourth and Market, One Year Later," 1907, shows much construction in progress, and completed, to the street and buildings one year after the 1906 earthquake and fires.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 077
  Caption: "Festival Hall," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-060.