Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 166
  Caption: "Blackfeet Indians. Glacier National Park," c. 1935, shows a woman, a young child, and three men of the Blackfeet Nation standing in front of a teepee.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 292
  Caption: "Cascade Falls - Yosemite National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 049
  Caption: "South Gardens," the Great South Gardens and the Palace of Horticulture at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 139
  Caption: "Pajaro River Trestle," c. 1906. Shows a railroad trestle bridge over the Pajaro River in California's Central Coast region. The bridge is seated on concrete footings.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 056
  No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-024 with caption: Ordnance Avenue, Fort Casey," Washington, c. 1908. Fort Casey was part of the "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1897, and the U.S. Army used the facility until the 1950s, when the fort was decommissioned. The area is now a state park.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 099
  Caption: "Palace of Fine Arts, Dome," built for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 225
  No Caption: View of the dilapidated Old Point Loma Lighthouse. An unidentified man sits in front of it. Lighted for the first time in 1855, this lighthouse sat on a high cliff above Point Loma near San Diego. Unfortunately, its high elevation resulted in fog or low-lying clouds often obscuring the light. The lighthouse was replaced by a new facility (Point Loma Light -- see 96-07-08-alb08-211 and 226) in 1891. The old lighthouse deteriorated over the years, until being restored in the early 1930s. It is now a museum.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 414
  Caption: "Cathedral San Sebastian y Santa Prisca. Taxco, Mexico," constructed between 1751 and 1758.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 269
  Caption: "San Pedro Harbor," c. 1910. View of San Pedro Bay, with harbor facilities such as wharves and cranes in the background. San Pedro Bay was declared the official port for Los Angeles in 1897.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 082
  No caption. Unidentified boy standing on a porch, at an unidentified location, c. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 029
  Caption: "Old Faithful Geyser," c. 1923. Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful Geyser at mid-eruption.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 087
  Caption: "Court of Abundance," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 215
  No Caption: c. 1915. Shows a view of Broadway in Los Angeles. On the right side of the street is Woodley Theatre, a vaudeville theater that opened in 1913.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 145
  Caption: "Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida. July 10, 1934." Walkway atop what appears to be the ramparts of the Castillo de San Marcos (Castle of Saint Mark). The core structures of this coastal defense fort were completed by Spanish forces in 1695. Numerous additions, renovations, and repairs have occurred since that time. When Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. in 1821, the Castillo was designated a U.S. Army base and renamed Fort Marion, in honor of Frances Marion (also known as the Swamp Fox, Marion was an American Revolutionary War hero known for his guerilla war tactics). The fort was deactivated in 1933, and turned over to the National Park Service.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 267b
  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 Fort Dearborn, a fort built in 1803 in what is now Chicago proper. While the original fort was destroyed during the War of 1812, and the second fort which replaced it was destroyed by fires in 1857 and 1871, a replica was constructed for the Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 040
  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. Here Grace is seen posing at the edge of the hotel's famous "plunge."
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 167
  Caption: "Many Glaciers Hotel on Swift Current Lake Shore, Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 293
  No Caption: An unidentified waterfall at Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 050
  Caption: "Entrance - Manufacturers Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 140
  Caption: "Fort Casey Lake," c. 1906. Crockett Lake, on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, with still waters reflecting trees from the shoreline.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 057
  No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb03-065 with caption: "Fort Casey Lighthouse, Washington," c. 1910. Fort Casey was part of the "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1897, and the U.S. Army used the facility until the 1950s, when the fort was decommissioned. The area is now a state park.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 100
  Caption: "Vendome San Jose," c. 1910, was a luxury hotel in San Jose that opened in 1889. It was purchased by a real estate syndicate in 1930 and subsequently demolished in order to subdivide the property into lots for residential housing.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 103
  Caption: "Surf Bathing, Seaside, Oregon.," c. 1910. Beach scene with groups of people playing in the surf at Seaside, Oregon.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 415
  Caption: "Taxco Cathedral interior. San Sebastian y Santa Prisca."
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 270
  Caption: "S.S. Santa Rosa." Wreck of the S.S. Santa Rosa off Point Arguello in Santa Barbara County. The steamship ran aground on July 6, 1911. Unable to break free, the turbulent waters eventually cracked the ship in half. All two hundred passengers got to shore alive, the only fatalities coming when four sailors were accidentally thrown out of a lifeboat by rough seas while attempting to establish a land line to stabilize the wreck.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 083
  No caption. Two unidentified boys standing in front of a corn field, c. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 208
  Caption: "The Fairmont," c. 1906. View of the Fairmont Hotel, a luxury hotel in San Francisco. Although construction was mostly finished in 1906, the advent of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of that year damaged the hotel's interior and delayed opening until 1907. It was the first hotel in what is now the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain. In 1945, the San Francisco hotel was host to an international conference that culminated in the formation of the United Nations.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 030
  Caption: "Tower Falls [sic] - Yellowstone Park," c. 1923. Tower Fall is a 132' waterfall, located on Tower Creek in the northeastern region of Yellowstone National Park. Its name derives from several pinnacles of rock at the head of the fall.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 157
  Caption: "Washington Arch - Washington Square. N.Y," c. 1925. The marble Washington Square Arch (Stanford White, architect) was built between 1890 and 1892 to replace the original wooden arch, which had been erected in 1889 to honor the centennial of President George Washington's inauguration.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 088
  No Caption: Court of Abundance at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 216
  Caption: "Venice," c. 1915, shows the site of Villa City Boating, where visitors to the resort seaside village of Venice could purchase gondola rides on the canals to visit the town. The seaside resort was founded by tobacco millionaire, Abbot Kinney in 1905, and designed to be like the namesake Italian city.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 021
  Caption: "Agua Caliente Swimming Pool -- Mexico -- May 20, 34." View of the swimming pool, with bathers and people socializing around the water, at Agua Caliente Casino and Resort. Designed by Wayne McAllister, the resort opened in Tijuana in 1928. It closed only a few years later, in 1935, when Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas outlawed gambling.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 041
  Caption: "Orocopia Mountains Near Mecca, Calif. May 30, 1935," shows an empty road traversing the Orocopia Mountains near Mecca, in Riverside County.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 168
  Caption: "Swift Current Lake - McCloud Mountain in the distance, Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 294
  Caption: "Mirror Lake - Yosemite National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 051
  Caption: "In the Court of Palms," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 013
  Caption: "Portola. King & Queen." Actors portraying explorer Gaspar de Portolà and Queen Vergilia in a parade, part of the San Francisco Portola Festival held October 19-23, 1909. The festival celebrated Portolà as the discoverer of San Francisco Bay. It was held annually until 1913. See also 96-07-08-alb06-162.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 141
  Caption: "Bakers [sic] Beach Presidio," c. 1906. Breaking ocean wave at Baker Beach. The beach is located on the Pacific Ocean, west and south of Golden Gate Point (the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula) within the boundaries of the Presidio of San Francisco.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 101
  Caption: "Dutch Windmill Golden Gate Park," in San Francisco, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 104
  No Caption: c. 1910. Shows a group of six women playing in the surf at a beach near Seaside, Oregon.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 227
  Caption: "POINT LOMA BEACH, San Diego." View of rocky cliffs and narrow, rocky beach at their base, with surf swirling just offshore.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 416
  Caption: "State capitol or Palacio de Cortes, Cuernavaca, Mexico." Built in 1526 as a residence for Spanish conqueror, Hernan Cortes, the Palacio de Cortes is the oldest conserved colonial era civil structure in the continental Americas. It is now El Museo Cuauhnahuac, a regional museum, which features murals by Mexican artist, Diego Rivera.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 209
  Caption: "The Hall of Justice," c. 1906. A view of the Hall of Justice in San Francisco shows the building's utter destruction after the 1906 earthquake and fire.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 031
  Caption: "Cascades - Yellowstone," c. 1923. View of Kepler Cascades, a waterfall on the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 158
  Caption: "Grants Tomb. N.Y." The remains of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the U.S. and Commanding General of the Union Army during the last year of the Civil War, were laid to rest in this elaborate tomb, designed by architect John Duncan. Grant died in 1885, but construction on the granite and marble structure did not begin until 1891. Grant's remains were transferred to the tomb on April 27, 1897. The tomb is the largest mausoleum in North America. See also 96-07-08-alb11-209.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 089
  No Caption: The Liberty Bell, on display in the Pennsylvania State Building at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, after its 3,000 mile journey from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. See also 96-07-08-alb01-071.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 217
  No Caption: shows the Venice Miniature Railway on a bridge over a canal in Venice, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 022
  Caption: "The Casino -- Agua Caliente, Mexico -- May 20, 34." View of the exterior of the casino at Agua Caliente Casino and Resort. Designed by Wayne McAllister, the resort opened in Tijuana in 1928. It closed only a few years later, in 1935, when Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas outlawed gambling.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 269
  Caption: "Century of Progress Crowd. Chicago Fair. Sept. 16, 1934." A large crowd mills about on a wide thoroughfare in Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition. The Exposition, a world fair attended by thirty-nine million people, celebrated Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. Originally planned to only run from May to November in 1933, it was such a success that its organizers decided to keep it running for a second season from May through October the following year. The central theme of the Exposition was technological innovation, with a motto of "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms." None of the buildings constructed for the fair are still extant today, having been built as temporary facilities.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 042
  Caption: "Shields Date Gardens - Coachella Valley, Blythe, Calif. May 31, 1935." Date Palms at the Shields Date Gardens, which opened in 1924 at Blythe, California.