Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 083
  No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb01-066, with caption: "Fountain of the Earth Views," (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 016
  Caption: "Balboa Park, San Diego, Calif. May 19, 1934." View of an artificial lagoon in San Diego's Balboa Park, with the Panama-California Exposition's Commerce and Industries Building (tower at left, now called Casa de Balboa) and the Foreign Arts Building (tower at right, now called the House of Hospitality).
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 265
  Caption: "State Street, Chicago, Ill. Sept. 15, 1934." Busy street scene in Chicago, with dozens of pedestrians, automobiles, and a street car or trolley.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 036
  Caption: "Wilshirmart - Corner Wilshire Blvd. and Doheny Drive. Los Angeles is Noted for its Excellent Produce Markets," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 163
  Caption: "Two Medicine Lake and Rockwell Mountain - Glacier Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 289
  No Caption: A birds-eye view of the granite mountains in Yosemite National Park.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 046
  No Caption: Court of the Universe, with arch, colonnades, and statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 008
  Caption: "Cliff House S.F.," c. 1906. San Francisco's Cliff House. The Victorian structure shown here is the third building on the site, constructed in 1896. It was later destroyed by a fire, in 1907.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 136
  Caption: "Market St. Sept 9. 1910 S.F." Market Street in San Francisco, decked with bunting and flags for California's Admissions Day, the anniversary of the Golden State's entry as a state in the U.S. See also 96-07-08-alb07-008.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 096
  Caption: "Spanish War Veteran Statue," shows the Spanish-American War Memorial in San Francisco, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 099
  Caption: "Blakeley saw-mill, Wash.," c. 1905. View of a saw mill in Port Blakeley, now known as Port Blakely, on the southern tip of Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 222
  Caption: "Bennington's Honored Dead." Shows a grave site with dozens of caskets ready for burial. A priest and two altar boys stand at one side of the caskets, while a large group of U.S. Navy sailors looks on from the other side. While sailing from port in San Diego on the morning of July 21, 1905, the boiler of the USS Bennington exploded, killing sixty-six of her crew. The victims were laid to rest in the cemetery at Fort Rosecrans. See also 96-07-08-alb05-142 and 96-07-08-alb08-217.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 411
  Caption: "You can drive your car into the lobby of the Hotel American. Note the ornamental ceiling and colonnades - Puebla, Mex."
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 266
  Caption: "Chino Public School." View of public school building in Chino, California.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 204
  Caption: "Street Car Strike," c. 1907. San Francisco's street car union workers called for a strike after their request to be paid three dollars per eight- hour work day was declined. At the start of the strike, two strikers were shot by strike breakers and many more causalities were reported. Hundreds of passengers were injured during the strike due to inexperienced operators, and twenty-five of those passengers died as a result. In total, the upheaval resulted in thirty-one causalities.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 026
  Caption: "Burning Pool - Yellowstone Park," c. 1923. An unidentified group of people walk past Burning Pool at Yellowstone National Park, a thermally active spring in the park's Upper Basin.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 084
  Caption: "Fountain of the Earth," (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-065.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 212
  Caption: "Pasadena," c. 1915, shows the Hotel Green, built by George Gill Green in 1893, and expanded by him in 1898 and 1903 with two additional structures. The hotel complex was sold to private investors and by 1924, the 1898 Central Annex structure (Frederick L. Roehrig, architect) was turned into apartments and renamed the Castle Green. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the California Register of Historic Places, and the City of Pasadena's list of historic places.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 017
  Caption: "Coronado Hotel, May 20, 1934." View of the Coronado Hotel, with sand dunes 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 11, Photograph 142
  Caption: "Promenade, Daytona Beach, Florida, July 9, 1934." Wide promenade along the beach at Daytona Beach, featuring a row of benches at the left (seaside) and covered seating areas on the right, with palm trees. Daytona Beach was created when the neighboring towns of Daytona, Daytona Beach, Kingston, and Seabreeze merged in 1926. The area's beach was already well-known in both tourist and automobile circles
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 266
  Caption: "State Street, Chicago, Ill. Sept. 15, 1934." Busy street scene in Chicago, featuring a view of a raised rail track for what appear to be passenger trains.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 037
  Caption: "Bobs Service Station - Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles," c. 1935, shows Bob Spencer's Mobil gas service station, which was built around a grounded Fokker F32, whose wings served as a canopy for the fueling stations.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 164
  Caption: "Trick Falls-Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 290
  Caption: "Big trees growing in solid rock. Yosemite National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 054
  No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb03-070 with caption: "Shasta Springs." Waterfall, hillside, and buildings at Shasta Springs, c. 1910. Shasta Springs, just north of Dunsmuir, California, in the Trinity Mountains, was a resort area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It centered around natural springs, which became a featured stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Shasta Route. The resort operated until the 1950s, when it was purchased by private interests.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 097
  Caption: "Wave on Bakers [sic] Beach Presidio," San Francisco, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 412
  Caption: "Business district of the quaint little city of Taxco with its buildings of red tile roofs and adobe brick walls. - Mexico."
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 205
  Caption: "Ferry Building," c. 1907. A view of the San Francisco Ferry Building (A. Page Brown, architect) during repairs from the 1906 earthquake. The Beaux Arts structure is located on San Francisco's Embarcadero and features a 245 foot tall clock tower, with four clock dials, each 22 feet in diameter.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 027
  Caption: "Paint Pots or Boiling Clay - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Several unidentified park-goers view bubbling pools of mud known as mudpots or "paint pots" at Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 154
  Caption: "East Side Street Scene. N.Y," c. 1925. Bird's eye view of a street in New York City's East Side. The city's skyline looms in the background.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 281
  Caption: "Mirror Lake," c. 1917. Mirror Lake in Yosemite National Park, on Tenaya Creek, is the remains of a glacial lake that used to fill most of the valley. Its calm waters provide near-perfect reflections of the surrounding natural splendor.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 085
  Caption: "Court of Abundance," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-067.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 143
  Caption: "Highway Near Daytona Beach, Florida. July 9, 1934." A road stretches toward a curve in the distance, flanked by trees dripping with Spanish moss, and palm trees.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 267
  Caption: "Michigan Avenue and Business Section, Chicago. Ill. Sept. 15, 1934." View of a portion of Chicago's skyline from Michigan Avenue.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 038
  Caption: "Orange Grove - Foothill Blvd. San Bernardino, May 30, 1935." Shows an orange grove behind a row of stately palms on Foothill Blvd., also known as Route 66.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 165
  Caption: "Glacier National Park Hotel," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 048
  Caption: " Court of Palms." The Pioneer (Solon Borglum, sculptor), stands in the Avenue of Palms at the entrance to the Court of Flowers at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 010
  Caption: "State Capitol, Sacramento, Cal.," c. 1906. Façade of California's State Capitol Building in Sacramento. Much of the building is obscured by trees.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 098
  Caption: "Gun Drill, Field Artillery," Unidentified location, undated.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 101
  Caption: "Tacoma Parade, July 4.," c. 1905. View of an Independence Day parade in Tacoma, Washington, showing ranks of marching soldiers.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 413
  No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure, describing the town of Taxco in the state of Guerrero.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 081
  No caption. Unidentified people, one in costume with a painted-on mustache and goatee, c. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 206
  Caption: "Call Building," c. 1906. The remains of the Call building after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Completed in 1898 and designed by civic leader Claus Spreckels, the Call building on the corner of 3rd and Market streets was one of the first skyscrapers in San Francisco, built to house the San Francisco Call newspaper offices. While the structure withstood the 1906 earthquake, the interior caught fire and sustained considerable damage. After major renovations, the building is today known as The Central Tower.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 028
  Caption: "Paint Pots - Yellowstone," c. 1923. View of bubbling pools of mud known as mudpots or "paint pots" at Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 282
  Caption: "Mirror Lake," c. 1917. Mirror Lake in Yosemite National Park, on Tenaya Creek, is the remains of a glacial lake that used to fill most of the valley. Its calm waters provide near-perfect reflections of the surrounding natural splendor.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 086
  No Caption: Court of Abundance at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 214
  Caption: "Broadway, Los Angeles." Broadway is a major thoroughfare of Los Angeles and one of the oldest in the city, laid out in 1849 as Fort Street, and renamed Broadway in 1890. In this image, construction can be seen at the top of the street between the two buildings of the Alhambra Hotel and Apartments. May 18, 1934. See also 96-07-08.alb11.006.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 019
  Caption: "Agua Caliente Mexico, May 20, 34." View of an elaborate large arch over a roadway, pointing the way to Hotel Agua Caliente in Tijuana. The Agua Caliente Casino and Resort Hotel, designed by Wayne McAllister, opened in Tijuana in 1928. The resort closed only a few years later, in 1935, when Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas outlawed gambling.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 267a
  No caption. Commemorative U.S. Postage stamp issued in 1933 for Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition, celebrating the one-hundred year anniversary of Chicago's incorporation. This stamp features the Exposition's Federal Building. Its three tall columns represent each branch of the federal government.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 039
  Caption: "El Mirado Hotel-Palm Springs, Calif. May 30, 1935." The Spanish Colonial-Revival style El Mirado Hotel at Palm Springs opened in 1927 and became one of the most fashionable resort destinations for powerful Hollywood studio heads and celebrities.