Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 080
  No Caption: Court of Abundance, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-063.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 208
  No Caption: Echo Park in Los Angeles with gazebo in the distance, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 013
  Caption: "Public Market, Long Beach, Calif, May 18, 1934." Small street market in Long Beach, showing a flower vendor, fruit or vegetable vendors, and a few other stalls too distant to make out the merchandise.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 262
  Caption: "Railroad and Vehicular Traffic Section of Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 12, 1934." Bird's eye view of an industrial section of Cleveland, showing rail yard facilities and a busy highway.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 033
  No Caption: An adult male African lion at Gay's Lion Farm in El Monte, Los Angeles, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 160
  Caption: "Saint Mary's Lake and going to the Sun Mountain. Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 043
  Caption: " Court of the Universe - Colonnades," with the Fountain of the Rising Sun (Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 133
  Caption: "MC. Foto" and "Dutch Windmill," c. 1905. This postcard shows the Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park, built in 1903 to pump ground water within the park for irrigation purposes.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 093
  Caption: "Oakland City Hall," Oakland, California, c. 1910. Completed in 1879, the building was Oakland's second city hall and served until it was demolished in 1914 to create City Hall Plaza in front of the new City Hall that had been completed that year.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 096
  Caption: "Steamers DAKOTA and MINNESOTA at the Great Northern Docks, Length each 670 feet and Tonnage Each 30,000. The Largest steamers in the World. Also the Japanese Steamer IYO Maru, length 460 feet Tonnage 7000. Seattle Wash.," c. 1905. This postcard shows a view of wharf facilities at Seattle, with three steamships and a train.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 408
  Caption: "Business district of Puebla, Mexico - view taken from the Cathedral Belfry - Easter Sunday - April 17th, 1938.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 263
  Caption: "Camp Life -- Chino." Unidentified child and baby on bed under tree in garden or yard.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 076
  Caption: "Notre Dame, Watsonville," c. 1900. Moreland Notre Dame Academy was founded by Margaret S. Moreland in memory of her beloved daughter Josephine, who died at eighteen years of age. The catholic school opened in 1899.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 201
  Caption: "Van Ness turned into a Business Street." c.1906
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 023
  Caption: "Tea Kettle - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Teakettle Spring is a thermally active site in Yellowstone National Park's Upper Geyser Basin.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 277
  Caption: "Life At Camp Curry," c. 1917. Two unidentified people pose in front of their tent at Camp Curry. An arrow points to an enameled pail just inside the tent, labeled "For Use in Case of Fire." Yosemite's Half Dome Village, established by David and Jennie Curry in 1899, was originally called Camp Curry, and then later Curry Village. It was designed to provide cheaper accommodations for Yosemite tourists than the resort hotels. The couple set up furnished tents and provided amenities such as a dining tent. As attendance at the park increased, the couple constructed more facilities with more modern amenities. In 2016, as a result of a legal dispute over trademarked names in the park, Curry Village changed its name to Half Dome Village.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 081
  No Caption: Fountain of the Earth, (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-064.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 209
  Caption: "Echo Park, Los Angeles," c. 1915, shows palms and trees lining a small lake in Echo Park, Los Angeles.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 014
  Caption: "Broadway, San Diego, Calif, May 19, 1934." Bird's eye view of Broadway, a main street in San Diego.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 139
  Caption: "Lake View Avenue Bridge, Palm Beach, Florida. July 8, 1934." View of the Royal Park Bridge, a bascule bridge constructed in the 1920s. This bridge has since been replaced with a more modern structure.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 034
  No Caption: Shows an unidentified pond or lake in a Los Angeles area park, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 161
  Caption: "Going to the Sun Chalet - Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 287
  Caption: "Yosemite Falls," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 044
  No Caption: Colonnades structure at the Court of the Universe, with Fountain of the Setting Sun, or Descending Night (Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 134
  No caption, c. 1906. Small dog, possibly a Papillion or like breed, seated upright on its rear haunches on a stool.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 051
  No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-155 with caption: "Trestle in Oregon, Taken from Observation Car Platform," c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 097
  Caption: "Seattle water-front," c. 1905. View of Seattle's waterfront, as seen from Puget Sound. The Washington Hotel overlooks the city from atop Denny Hill in the center distance, built in the 1890s but destroyed in 1906 when the hill was regraded.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 220
  No Caption: U.S. Naval officers and sailors at the memorial for the victims of the USS Bennington's boiler explosion. The hump of a large mass grave dominates the foreground.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 409
  Caption: "Street Market - Calle Norts - Puebla, Mexico."
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 264
  Caption: "Chino Calif." Two unidentified children posing on the stoop of a house in Chino.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 077
  Caption: "Watsonville High School, construction," c. 1903. A view of the Watsonville High School under construction, featuring Spanish style design elements.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 202
  Caption: "Monument, Spanish War Memorial," 1906. A view of the Spanish-American War Memorial in San Francisco.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 024
  Caption: "Sunset Lake - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Yellowstone National Park's Sunset Lake is a shallow thermal pool in the Black Sand Basin. Its name is derived from the yellow and orange bands of bacteria and algae at its edges.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 151
  Caption: "Main [sic] Memorial Statue - Central Park N. Y." c. 1925. The monument was designed by Harold Van Buren Magonile, while the statuary was created by Attilio Piccirilli. The memorial, dedicated in New York City's Central Park in 1913, honors the more than 260 men killed aboard the USS Maine when the ship exploded in Havana's harbor during the Spanish-American War in 1898.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 082
  Caption: "Fountain of the Earth," (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 210
  Caption: "Echo Park, Los Angeles," c. 1915, shows a man on a bridge in Echo Park, Los Angeles.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 015
  Caption: "San Diego Water Front, May 19, 1934." View from across the harbor of San Diego's waterfront.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 140
  Caption: "Over Turned Buick Caused by Blow Out on Rear Tire, Florida Highway Accident, July 8, 1934." An automobile lying on its side after having blown out a rear tire on a Florida highway.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 035
  Caption: "Aimee McPherson's Angeles Temple- Los Angeles," c. 1935. Aimee Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee was a Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for her theatrical sermons and claims of healing the sick, and for founding the Foursquare Church.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 162
  Caption: "Lewis Mountain Range - Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 288
  Caption: "Vernal Falls [sic]- Yosemite National Park," c. 1935. A view of Vernal Fall at Yosemite National Park.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 045
  Caption: "Feeding the Pigeons," unidentified man shown feeding pigeons at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 135
  Caption: "MC Foto - Mage of Presidio." The caption suggests that the dog shown here, possibly a Boston Terrier or Pug, lived in San Francisco's Presidio.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 052
  No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-115 with caption: "On the Sacramento River," unidentified location, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 095
  Caption: "City Hall Ruins," shows the gutted San Francisco City Hall after the 1906 earthquake and fires. 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 098
  Caption: "Seattle totem pole.," 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 arson 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 221
  Caption: "CHICAGO AND BENNINGTON, OFFICERS & CREW." View of the USS Chicago. The flagship of the US fleet in the Pacific at the time, the USS Chicago was called to the fort after a boiler explosion on the USS Bennington killed sixty-six and wounded dozens more. A board of inquiry into the cause of the explosion was convened on board the Chicago. The board found that no error on the part of the Bennington's crew contributed to the explosion.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 265
  Caption: "Chino Avenue, Chino Cal." Rural dirt road lined with trees.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 203
  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 09, Photograph 152
  Caption: "Museum of Natural History N.Y.," c. 1925. View of the original building of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The Victorian Gothic-style building, often referred to as a "castle," was designed by J. Wrey Mould. It opened in 1877. Later expansions added to the complex around this building and have disguised much of it from view.