Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 096
  Caption: "Court of Four Seasons," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-078
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 029
  Caption: "Street Scene -- El Paso, May 26, 34." Street scene in El Paso, Texas. Residences line the street in the foreground, while what appears to be a city center can be seen in the center distance.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 049
  Caption: "Salome Arizona, Giant Cactus or Desert Sentinels - Arizona Desert. June 1, 1935."
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 176
  Caption: "Swift Current Lake - Glacier National Park, the Garden Wall and McCloud Mountain in the distance," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 302
  No Caption: People at the overhanging rocks at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 059
  Caption: "Palm Avenue," with Palace of Horticulture at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 109
  Caption: "Market St. S.F." See also 96-07-08-alb06-197 with caption: "Building up on Market Street, c. 1907. A view of repairs being made to Market Street, after the damage of the 1906 earthquake.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 112
  No Caption: c. 1909. View of the steamship Minnesota II, built in 1903. She was said to be the largest U.S. merchant ship afloat at the time. Operated by the Great Northern Steamship Company, she sailed between the U.S. and markets in Asia until 1915 when she was sold. In 1917 the Minnesota II began operating in the Atlantic between the U.S. and the United Kingdom. The U.S. Navy commissioned her as a troop ship in 1919, changing her name to Troy. She brought over 14,000 U.S. troops home from war-torn Europe. She never resumed active service after this, being scrapped in 1923.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 421
  Caption: "Maguey and Corn Fields above San Angel, Mexico City.:
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 150
  No caption, c. 1906. Unidentified man in suit posing in front of trees.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 092
  No caption, c. 1920. View of rocky cliffs with D.L. James House (designed by Charles Greene and built in 1918) on the left side of the image.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 217
  Caption: "California Street looking to the Ferry," 1906. A view of the destruction along California street after the earthquake and fire.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 293
  Caption: " Rugged Cliffs," c. 1917. View of a sheer cliff face with rocky, timbered mountains beyond.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 155
  Caption: "Negro Shack, Savannah, Georgia, Chimney Leaning and Windows Minus the Glass. He has No Pane. He Should Worry, July 13, 1934." View of a small home, with a leaning chimney on one side. An unidentified man stands in the doorway.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 277
  Caption: "Government Building. Chicago Fair. Sept. 18, 1934." View of the Federal Building at Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition, as seen from across the harbor. The three tall towers represent the three branches of the federal government. This building, towering over the Exposition, was featured on a commemorative US Postage Stamp issued in honor of the Exposition. A world fair attended by thirty-nine million people, the Expo 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."
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 050
  Caption: "Arizona Grand Canyon," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 177
  Caption: "View from Grinnell Glacier. Grinnell, Josephine and Sherburn Lakes - Glacier Park," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 060
  Capton:" Festival Hall," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 022
  Caption: "Presidio Avenue. Entrance to Presidio," c. 1906. Gateway into the Presidio of San Francisco, bracketed by brick podiums topped by ornamental pinnacles. Three soldiers stand guard at the gate. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 280
  Caption: "Venice," c. 1911. View of canal and bridge in Venice, California, with amusement "zone" in the distance. In 1905, Abbot Kinney built a series of canals as part of a development project along Santa Monica Beach, hoping to recreate the look and feel of Italy's iconic "Floating City" in southern California. Called Ocean Park at first, in 1911, the name officially changed to Venice. By 1929, however, many of the canals had been filled in to create roadways, and those that remained fell into disrepair. A revitalization movement in the early 1990s has restored some of the canals, and made the area a desirable residential neighborhood.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 067
  No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-147 with caption: "Seaside Beach, Or." c. 1908.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 110
  Caption: "Fairmount Ruins." Shows the damage from the 1906 earthquake fire to the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco, 1906. 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 10, Photograph 422
  Caption: "Market Day, Toluca, Mexico."
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 151
  Caption, c. 1906. Unidentified baby in stroller, located in a park or garden.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 093
  Caption: "St. Francis Hotel - S.F. Cal," c. 1913. St. Francis Hotel at Union Square with partial north wing extension and the Dewey Monument in the foreground (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), which commemorated U.S. Admiral George Dewey's naval victory at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American War of 1898. The luxury hotel opened in 1904 and, fortunately, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. It was expanded in 1913, and 1972, making it one of the largest hotels in the city. See also 96-07-08-alb01-002.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 218
  Caption: "Looking from the Track Above," c. 1907. A view of a train engine and two cars taken from above at Mount Tamalpais.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 294
  Caption: "Cathedral Spires," c. 1917. Rock formation known as Cathedral Spires in Yosemite National Park, as seen from the valley floor through trees.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 098
  Caption: "Avenue of Progress," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-080.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 226
  No Caption: A view of the Casa Del Rey Hotel in Santa Cruz, California, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 178
  Caption: "Hiking party on Grinnell Glacier - Glacier National Park. A solid block of ice covering many acres," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 304
  No Caption: An unidentified campground in Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 061
  Caption: "Palace of Horticulture," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 281
  Caption: "Ocean Park," c. 1910. Night view of amusement zone at what became Venice, California. In 1905, Abbot Kinney built a series of canals as part of a development project along Santa Monica Beach, hoping to recreate the look and feel of Italy's iconic "Floating City" in southern California. Called Ocean Park at first, in 1911, the name officially changed to Venice. By 1929, however, many of the canals had been filled in to create roadways, and those that remained fell into disrepair. A revitalization movement in the early 1990s has restored some of the canals, and made the area a desirable residential neighborhood.
• McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 068
  No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-153 with caption: "Fort Canby Light House, Wash." c. 1910. View of the Cape Disappointment Lighthouse on a rocky point overlooking the mouth of the Columbia River. Cannons and cannon balls are stored on the lighthouse property. Built in the 1850s, the lighthouse was electrified in 1934 and automated in 1973. The lighthouse is now part of the Cape Disappointment State Park (formerly Fort Canby State Park).
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 111
  Caption: "Ferry Building," c. 1906. 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 08, Photograph 114
  Caption: "Ferry Boat Tacoma on the Columbia River.," c. 1905. View of the railroad ferry Tacoma, with a train on board. The Tacoma operated from 1884 until 1908, when a railroad bridge was constructed across the Columbia connecting Portland, Oregon with points north of the river.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 237
  Caption: "Squaw in Jail, Tiajuana [sic], Mexico.," c. 1910. View of a jail in Tijuana, Mexico. An elderly woman is seated behind the bars of one of the windows.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 423
  Caption: "Church of El Carmen - in a crypt beneath are a number of mummies, Mexico City."
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 094
  No Caption: An unidentified man and woman standing in front of an automobile and large building at unidentified location, c. 1920.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 219.0
  Caption: "Tamalpais Views." A label in album 6 referring to photographs 218-222.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 040a
  No caption. This colorful decal advertises "Yellowstone Park Camps, The Popular Service." Three people lounge in camp chairs in front of a small cabin.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 099
  Caption: "Colonnades of the Agriculture and Transportation Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 227
  No Caption: shows a street scene in Venice, California, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 032
  Caption: "Signal Peak -- Guadalupe Mts. 10,000 ft alt. New Mexico, May 29, 34." View of Guadalupe Peak (also known as Signal Peak), the highest natural point in Texas with an elevation of 8,751 feet above sea level.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 157
  Caption: "Negro Homes, Savannah, Georgia. July 14, 1934." Row of identical small homes set closely together, each with a small front porch. Several unidentified people can be seen on a few of the porches.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 279
  Caption: "Henry Ford's First Automobile and Machine Shop, Chicago Fair Exhibit. Sept. 19, 1934." This exhibit within the Ford Building at Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition replicated Henry Ford's original workshop, including a Quadricycle, the first automobile produced by Ford. 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."
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 305
  No Caption: A group of unidentified women and girls on bicycles at Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 062
  Caption: " Court of Abundance," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 024
  Caption: "Monte Rio Cal," c. 1906. Scene on the Russian River with wharf at right, some houses along the river bank in the distance, and a wooden footbridge crossing the river. Monte Rio, north of San Francisco in Sonoma County, became a resort area in the early twentieth century, after the sawmills providing the area's primary industry closed down.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 282
  Caption: "Street Scene -- Los Angeles," c. 1910. Rooftop view of an unidentified street in Los Angeles.