Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 010
  Caption: "Steamer EMPRESS OF INDIA at Vancouver dock, B.C.," c. 1908-1912. View of the Empress of India, built by England's Naval Construction & Armaments Co. in 1890 for the Canadian Pacific Steamships company. The Empress of India could accommodate up to 700 passengers, and was also used to carry mail between Hong Kong and Great Britain. She was sold in 1914 and refitted as a hospital ship for Indian soldiers. She was sold a final time in 1923, for scrap in Bombay.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 134
  No Caption: This postcard shows several buildings of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at night, outlined by electric lights. More than 20,000 electric lights were installed on the buildings for the fair. Held in Seattle to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest, the fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Although most of the fair's buildings have since been destroyed, several of them now serve as part of the University of Washington campus.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 443
  Caption: "Residence in Chapultepec Heights - Mexico City."
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 175
  No caption, c. 1909. View of portion of Puget Sound.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 116.0
  Caption: "Wantses," caption label only, refers to photographs 116, 117, and 118 of album 06.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 191
  No caption. An unidentified man and woman posing on a bench with two young children on their laps, c. 1925.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 122
  Caption: "The Four Seasons," shows the Fountain of Autumn (Furio Piccirilli, sculptor), in the Court of Four Seasons, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-100 and 96-07-08-alb03-025.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 250
  Caption: "Broadway San Diego, Cal July 19, 1915," shows the busy thoroughfare. See also 96-07-08-alb07-231.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 302
  Caption: "Main St. Salt Lake City, Utah. Oct. 4, 1934. Salt Lake City is Noted for Clean Broad Streets." Street scene, with a wide roadway stretching into what appears to be a downtown area in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 075
  No Caption: 1935. The Zoro Garden Nudist Colony, named for the Persian mystic, Zoroaster, was an unusual and controversial attraction that featured partially nude men and women performing as nudists. Exposition visitors were charged twenty-five cents to watch the "nudists" perform ceremonies and other activities. Today, the sunken Zoro Garden in Balboa Park is a butterfly garden.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 328
  No Caption: An unidentified California Indian man standing in front of a wigwam covered in tree bark, and wearing a headdress, feather skirt and shawl, beads, and moccasins, and holding a small drum decorated with arrows, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 085
  Caption: "Palace of Horticulture," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 305
  No caption, undated. Depicts a temporary memorial of some kind, possibly a funeral arrangement, with a cloth canopy over a podium upon which sits a covered table or small casket, with a cross and decorative flowers and palm fronds. Stairs leading to the podium are bracketed by small pedestals topped by vases holding American flags.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 007
  Caption: " Casino Santa Cruz," c. 1910, on the Santa Cruz boardwalk, opened in 1907, replacing the original 1904 casino that had burned down in 1906.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 011
  Caption: "Battery Kinzie firing 'Trial Shots' Aug 1, 1912" and "No 10 Near Pt. Townsend, WA." Battery Kinzie was a coastal defense battery designed to include two 12-inch disappearing guns, installed at Fort Worden. Construction began in 1908. It was turned over to the U.S. Army's Coast Artillery Corps in 1912 for use in defending the entrance to Puget Sound. This postcard shows one of the 12-inch guns firing, with several unidentified men standing nearby holding their hands to their ears.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 135
  No Caption: View of the Forestry Building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Made out of unpeeled logs, the Forestry Building was demolished in the 1930s. Held in Seattle to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest, the fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Although most of the fair's buildings have since been destroyed, several of them now serve as part of the University of Washington campus.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 444
  Caption: "Another beautiful residence in Chapultepec Heights."
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 116
  Caption: "Want to get down," c. 1906, shows a small black dog standing on a chair.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 192
  No caption. Two unidentified men pose sitting on a bench, c. 1925.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 319
  Caption: "Vernal and Nevada Falls - View From Glacier Point," c. 1917. Example of the spectacular views available from Glacier Point on the south wall of the Yosemite Valley. Vernal and Nevada Falls can be seen in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 123
  Caption: "Statues of," shows the Fountain of Spring(Furio Piccirilli, sculptor), in the Court of the Four Seasons, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 97-07-08-alb01-101 and 96-07-08-alb03-034.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 251
  Caption: "Santa Fe Depot. San Diego, Cal, July 18, 1915," shows the Santa Fe Depot (Arthur Brown Jr, architect), in the Mission Revival architectural style. The train station opened in March 1915 to accommodate the crowds expected to visit the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego that year. The depot is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 181
  Caption: "George Washingions [sic] Home, Rear View, Mt. Vernon, Va. July 22, 1934." Rear view of Mount Vernon, the plantation home of George and Martha Washington. Built between 1758 and 1778, the Palladian-style mansion is now owned in trust by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and open to the public.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 303
  Caption: "State St. Salt Lake City. Capitol Bldg. in the Distance, Oct. 4, 1934." Street scene, with a wide road stretching toward the Utah State Capitol Building in the distance. Trolley tracks appear on the roadway, with wires overhead.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 076
  Caption: "Nudist Colony - San Diego Exposition," c. 1935. The Zoro Garden Nudist Colony, named for the Persian mystic, Zoroaster, was an unusual and controversial attraction that featured partially nude men and women performing as nudists. Exposition visitors were charged twenty-five cents to watch the "nudists" perform ceremonies and other activities. Today, the sunken Zoro Garden in Balboa Park is a butterfly garden.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 202
  Caption: "Emerald Lake and Emerald Mountain, elev. 8352 ft. Canada," c. 1935, located in Yoho National Park, British Columbia.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 086
  No Caption: Palace of Horticulture, Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 048
  Caption: "Russian River," c. 1914. View of a bend in the Russian River, likely near Healdsburg.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 306
  Caption: "Race Track -- S.F. Exposition." Race track at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition, held in 1915. A horse race is in progress, with several spectators out of their seats in anticipation of the finish.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 008
  Caption: " Monte Rio." Boat landing and foot bridge at C.W. Meadows' place of business at Monte Rio, along the Russian River in Sonoma County, California, c. 1910.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 012
  Caption: "Mortar Gun Practice -- Full Service, Fort Worden, Pt Townsend, Wash," c. 1910. The postcard shows several Howitzers, one of which is firing, as well as a group of men standing to the side with their hands over their ears. Construction began on Fort Worden in 1898, and by 1902 it was serving as an active U.S. Army base. Fort Worden was part of the "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. The U.S. sold the property to the state of Washington in 1957. In 1973, the fort and surrounding area opened as Fort Worden State Park.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 136
  No Caption: Seattle street scene dominated by a banner welcoming fairgoers to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Held in Seattle to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest, the fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Although most of the fair's buildings have since been destroyed, several of them now serve as part of the University of Washington campus.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 177
  Caption: "Smith Building -- Seattle." View of the neoclassical Smith Tower in Seattle, built by industrialist Lyman Cornelius Smith. At the time of its completion in 1914, the Smith Tower was the tallest building on the West Coast, until being superseded by the Space Needle in 1962. See also 96-07-08-alb08-035.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 262
  Caption: "Mexican Hut, Carlsbad, N. M.," c. 1905. Shack made out of wood boards and miscellaneous other items, with an unidentified man, possibly of Hispanic ethnicity, standing in front.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 065
  Caption: "D. & R. G. Depot, Salt Lake City," c. 1923. Constructed in 1910 by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW), this depot operated under the auspices of that railroad company until the 1970s. It served as a passenger depot for Amtrak from 1986 to 1999. The building is currently home to the Division of Utah State History and the Utah Department of Heritage & Arts.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 320
  Caption: "Yosemite Falls - View From Glacier Point," c. 1917. Yosemite Falls in the distance, as seen from Glacier Point. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 124
  Caption: "Fountain of Winter," shows the Fountain of Winter (Furio Piccirilli, sculptor), in the Court of the Four Seasons, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 97-07-08-alb01-102 and 96-07-08-alb03-033.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 252
  Caption: "Torpedo Boat Coronado, San Diego Bay," c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 077
  Caption: "Nudist Colony - San Diego Expo.," c. 1935. The Zoro Garden Nudist Colony, named for the Persian mystic, Zoroaster, was an unusual and controversial attraction that featured partially nude men and women performing as nudists. Exposition visitors were charged twenty-five cents to watch the "nudists" perform ceremonies and other activities. Today, the sunken Zoro Garden in Balboa Park is a butterfly garden.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 203
  Caption: "Takakkaw Falls 3500 ft. high. Yoho National Park, Canada," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 330
  No Caption: Pictured is Yosemite master basket weaver, Lucy Parker Telles, a Mono Lake Paiute, who lived at Yosemite and Mono Lake. Telles was one of a group of Mono-Paiute women renowned for the artistry of their stunning baskets, many of which they sold to Yosemite visitors. Here, Telles poses with her beautiful 36" basket, which took her four years to complete, and which captured first prize at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 087
  No Caption: The Fountain of The Rising Sun (Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor), in the Court of the Universe, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 009
  Caption: "Sacramento River." Pictured is a schooner with a load of hay on the Sacramento River, c. 1910.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 013
  Caption: "New Westminster -- British Columbia.," c. 1908-1912. View of the riverfront of New Westminster, now part of the Greater Vancouver region.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 137
  Caption: "Astoria, Or.," c. 1909. Bird's eye view of Astoria, a port city near the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 178
  No caption. Street view in Seattle, with Smith Tower in background. See also 96-07-08-alb08-036.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 263
  No Caption: c. 1910. View of rows of tents and sheds thatched in palm fronds along the coast near Coronado Hotel, with people strolling along the roadways. Established in 1900 for travelers who could not afford to stay in the resort hotel, the Coronado Tent City consisted of a grid of streets lined with furnished tents, near the sea shore. It also featured restaurants, a library, soda fountain, theater, bandstand, and other recreational facilities. See also 96-07-08-alb05-202 and 96-07-08-alb08-210.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 118
  Caption: "Want to get in," c. 1906, shows a small black dog, wearing a ribbon and bow around its neck, and leaning against a door.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 244
  No Caption. A Dutch Windmill, at unidentified location, likely at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, c. 1910.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 066
  Caption: "D. & R. G. Locomotive - Length 105 FT. - Salt Lake City," c. 1923. View of Locomotive #3501 of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. The Denver and Rio Grande (D&RG) primarily operated railroad lines between Denver, Colorado and Salt Lake City, Utah, with other lines stretching into New Mexico.