Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 169
  Caption: "McCloud Mountain-Grinnell Peak on right, Swift Current Lake, Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 052
  Caption: "Colonnades Agricultural Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 142
  Caption: "Buriel [sic] of the U.S.S. Bennington Victims. -- Fort Rosecrans." 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-alb08-217.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 059
  No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-021 with caption: "Fort Casey Lake, Reflections." Landscape at Crockett Lake, near Fort Casey, c. 1908.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 102
  Caption: "San Jose Court House," San Jose, c. 1905. The Old Courthouse was completed in 1868, the Hall of Records next door was built in 1893.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 105
  Caption: "Division Headquarters. Camp Lewis, Wash.," c. 1918. Shows the two-story building that served as Division Headquarters for Camp Lewis in Washington. The Camp was established by the U.S. Army in 1917, as part of the U.S.'s preparations for eventual entry into World War I. Rapid construction had the camp ready to house 60,000 men within a few months. The site is still in use as a military facility, under the name Fort Lewis.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 416a
  No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing the city of Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 272
  Caption: "Sugar Factory -- Chino," c. 1915. View of Chino's sugar beet factory, established in 1891 by Robert and Henry Oxnard. Henry later established a larger factory in the town that now bears his name (Oxnard, in Ventura County). The factory operated for more than twenty-five years before closing in October 1917.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 085
  No caption. Small, unidentified house at unidentified location.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 210
  Caption: "Mission Dolores. The old landmark stood," 1906. Mission Delores, the oldest intact building still standing in San Francisco today, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. The parish church next to it was greatly damaged and rebuilt as the Mission Dolores Basilica, opened in 1918.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 159
  Caption: "The John Shields Home. N.Y." Residence of John Shields, on Long Island in the Daybreak Estate area. See also 96-07-08-alb11-221.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 090
  Caption: "Pennsylvania [sic] Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-072.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 218
  No Caption: c. 1915, shows a monument with a statue of Stephen M. White on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Courthouse. Stephen M. White, a former Los Angeles district attorney, served in the California Senate, as well as acting Lieutenant Governor from 1887-1891. He also served in the United States Senate from 1893 -1899. White was also responsible for the creation of Los Angeles Harbor in San Pedro. The monument was moved in 1989 to the entrance of Cabrillo Beach near the harbor where it resides today.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 023
  Caption: "State Capitol, Phoenix Arizona, May 24, 34." View of the façade of the Arizona State Capitol Building in Phoenix. Designed by James Riely Gordon, the building opened for use in 1901.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 170
  Caption: "Lake Josephine, McCloud Mountain and Garden Wall in the distance. Glacier National Park," C. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 296
  Caption: "Glacier Point - Overhanging Rock - Yosemite National Park," c. 1935, shows people standing on the overhanging rock of Glacier Point.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 053
  No Caption: An unidentified man and woman at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 060
  No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-045 with caption: "Fort Flagler Beach," c. 1908.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 103
  Caption: "K Street Sacramento. Weinstock Lubins Store," Sacramento, California, c. 1910.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 106
  Caption: "Bird's Eye View. Camp Lewis, Wash.," c. 1918. This postcard shows a bird's eye view of buildings at Camp Lewis. The Camp was established by the U.S. Army in 1917, as part of the U.S.'s preparations for eventual entry into World War I. Rapid construction had the camp ready to house 60,000 men within a few months. The site is still in use as a military facility, under the name Fort Lewis.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 229
  Caption: "San Diego Courthouse.," c. 1905. View of the second courthouse built by San Diego County, completed in 1889. Designed by architectural firm Cornstock & Trotsche of San Francisco, this elaborate building featured a bell and clock tower, statues of four presidents, and 42 stained-glass windows honoring each state in the Union at the time of installation. The tower was removed in 1939. Twenty years later, the entire building was demolished in favor of a newer facility.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 417
  Caption: "Avenda [sic] Zapata, Cuernavaca, Mexico."
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 086
  Caption: "A Watsonville Residence," c. 1910, shows a view of a large, Queen Anne-style house at unidentified location in Watsonville.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 211
  Caption: "Temple of the Scottish Rite Masonry," 1906. The Temple of the Scottish Rite Masonry shows heavy damage from the earthquake and fires.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 091
  Caption: "California Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-073.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 219
  No Caption: shows Broadway in Los Angeles, c. 1915, with M.A. Hamburger's department store on the right, which later became the May Co. The Majestic Theatre, opened in 1908, can be seen at the end of the block in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 024
  Caption: "Biltmore Hotel -- Phoenix, Arizona, May 24, 34." View of the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, part of the Bowman-Biltmore hotel chain. Designed by Albert Chase McArthur (with some collaboration from Frank Lloyd Wright), the hotel opened for business in 1929.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 149
  Caption: "Jacksonville, Florida. At St. John's River Bridge. July 11, 1934." View of Jacksonville's skyline.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 271
  Caption: "Parkway and Dome of Ford Building. Chicago Fair. Sept. 17, 34." Several pedestrians wander along a parkway with a small lagoon and fountains, flanked by benches and manicured hedges. The Ford Building rises in the distance. 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 171
  Caption: "Lake Josephine. McCloud Mountain reflection - Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 297
  No Caption: An unidentified hotel in Yosemite National Park, C. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 144
  No caption, c. 1906. Two women posing with four small children, none of whom are identified.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 107
  No Caption: View of what appear to be some type of shipping container, possibly in a dry dock.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 418
  Caption: "Home of ex U.S. Ambassador Dwight Morrow - Cuernavaca, Mexico." Pictured is the former home of Dwight Whitney Morrow (1873-1931). Morrow was appointed Ambassador to Mexico by President Calvin Coolidge from 1927 - 1930.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 087
  Caption: "Sacramento - State Capitol," c. 1910, shows the façade of California's neoclassical-style capitol building in Sacramento.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 212
  Caption: "Call Building," c. 1906. 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 161
  Caption: "The John Shields Home." Side view of the residence of John Shields on Long Island, with a car parked under a carport.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 288
  Caption: "Three Brothers - Mariposa Grove," c. 1917. Two unidentified people pose in the Mariposa Grove next to three Giant Sequoias.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 092
  Caption: "California Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-074.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 220
  Caption: "Art Museum - Los Angeles," c. 1915. Located in Exposition Park, the Beaux Arts building, opened in 1913, was originally known as the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art. In 1963, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art moved to its current location on Wilshire Blvd. The Exposition Park facility became the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. After two years of renovation and restoration, it was reopened in 2009. See also 96-07-08-alb01-148.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 025
  Caption: "Central St. Phoenix, Arizona. May 24, 1934." View from street-level of Phoenix's Central Street.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 150
  Caption: "York Hazzard. He has Never Been Arrested for Speeding. Old Negro and His Mode of Traveling, Darien, Ga. July 13, 1934." York Hazzard, an elderly man of African-American ethnicity, seated in a small wooden cart drawn by a cow or steer. An automobile is parked on the street behind the cart.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 045
  Caption: "Colorado River at Blythe, Calif. May 31, 1935."
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 172
  Caption: "Grinnell Lake - Glacier National Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 145
  Caption: "Honolulu," c. 1906. Unidentified toddler posed on the back of a horse.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 105
  Caption: "Limb Show at the Cliff." Shows two women holding up their skirts as they walk into the surf at Ocean Beach, with the Victorian-style Cliff House in the background, San Francisco, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 108
  No Caption: c. 1905. Three unidentified children posing in chairs in a garden or park.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 419
  Caption: "Ruins of an old Carmelite Monastery. El Desierto de Los Leones, near Mexico City."
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 088
  No Caption. A dining room with elaborate decorative accents at unidentified location, c. 1910.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 213
  Caption: "A Twisted Monument," 1906, shows damage from the earthquake to a monument in a San Francisco cemetery.