Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 263
  No caption, c. 1935. Grace McCarthy sitting in a covered porch swing on the patio of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 268
  No caption, c. 1935. Grace McCarthy peers out of a car window at a curious bear in Yosemite National Park.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 269
  No caption, c. 1935. Grace McCarthy feeding a buck deer in velvet.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 142
  Caption: "Toll Gate -- St Helena Mountain.," c. 1920. Toll gate consists of a long wooden spar across the road, with a small building to the right. Grace McCarthy is standing next to an automobile at the gate. The St. Helena Toll Road, now part of California State Route 29, connected the Napa Valley with Lake County. It was built in 1868, and purchased by the State of California in 1925.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 270
  Caption: "Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite," c. 1935. Grace McCarthy standing before Bridal Veil Falls in Yosemite National Park.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 017
  Caption: "Tahoe Tavern." Grace McCarthy standing in front of the tavern.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 018
  Caption: "Tahoe Tavern Grounds." Grace McCarthy seated on shaded lounge chair on the grounds of the Tahoe Tavern.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 081
  Caption: "Lake Dora near Mt. Dora -- Florida, June 26, 1934." View of Lake Dora, near the town of Mount Dora in Florida. Grace McCarthy can be seen standing next to an automobile in the lower left-hand corner of the photograph. Mount Dora, settled in 1874, is thus named because the town sits on a low plateau approximately 184 feet above sea level, an unusual feature in a state whose mean elevation above sea level is 100 feet.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 030
  Caption: "Fallen Leaf Lodge." Grace McCarthy standing in front of a resort lodge, likely near Fallen Leaf Lake, just south of Lake Tahoe.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 032
  Caption: "Al Tahoe." Grace McCarthy in driver's seat of automobile, in front of the main building of Al Tahoe Hotel. The hotel was built in 1907 by Almerin R. Sprauge.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 289
  No caption, c. 1935. Toboggan run at Camp Curry, Yosemite National Park. Grace McCarthy is standing next to the run.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 037
  Caption: "Carson City." Street scene with Grace McCarthy standing next to an automobile.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 242
  Caption: "Maricopa Point - Grand Canyon of Arizona," c. 1925. Erroneously labeled, this photograph shows Grace McCarthy standing at the Powell Memorial on Powell Point, rather than Maricopa Point. The granite Powell Memorial commemorates John Wesley Powell, who explored the Colorado River in 1869 and 1872. The 1869 expedition included the first known descent of a person of European ancestry into the Grand Canyon.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 045
  Caption: "California-Nevada Boundary Line." Grace McCarthy in driver's seat of automobile, on unpaved road with hillside in the background.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 048
  No caption, c. 1927. Grace McCarthy seated on the running board of an automobile parked at a resort in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, near the California-Nevada border.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 053
  Caption: "Summit -- Tioga Pass -- Elevation 9940 feet." Grace McCarthy standing beside automobile on an unpaved road, near a stone monument declaring the elevation of Tioga Pass and road signs providing directions and distances to other locales.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 253
  No caption c. 1917. Grace McCarthy and two unidentified people pose under a log sign reading "Camp Curry." Yosemite's Half Dome Village, established by David and Jennie Curry in 1899, was originally called Camp Curry, and later Curry Village. It was designed to provide cheaper accommodations for Yosemite tourists than the resort hotels. The couple set up furnished tents and provided amenities such as a dining tent. The entrance sign seen in this photograph was erected in 1914. As a result of a legal dispute over trademarked names in the park, Curry Village changed its name to Half Dome Village in 2016.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 130
  Caption: "St. Josephs Oratore [sic] - Montreal.," c. 1925. Unidentified man and Grace McCarthy pose in front of the St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, a Roman Catholic basilica and shrine. Work on the building began in 1924, and continued until 1967. Only the first level of the building had been completed when this photograph was taken.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 393
  Caption: "In our flower decked tourist court, 46 Neva St. Mexico City." Grace McCarthy is seen sitting on an automobile bumper in the background of this photograph, while three Mexican men wearing sombreros and serapes pose in the foreground.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 062
  Caption: "Scene on the Placerville Highway." Grace McCarthy standing near an automobile on the side of an unpaved road, today's U.S. Route 50, east of Placerville.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 199
  Caption: "Bijou Lake Tahoe," c. 1915-1920. Grace McCarthy standing in front of a small garden with the Bijou Inn in the background.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 200
  Caption: "Santa Cruz Big Trees," c. 1920. Grace McCarthy standing in a grove of giant sequoias near Santa Cruz, California.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 209
  Caption: "Santa Cruz," c. 1920. Five swimsuit-clad women (including Grace McCarthy, far left) on a beach in Santa Cruz. See also 96-07-08-alb04-207, 208.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 210
  Caption: "Santa Cruz," c. 1920. Group of unidentified people on a beach in Santa Cruz, including Grace McCarthy (far right).
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 273
  Caption: "Venice, Calif," c. 1911. Grace McCarthy and an unidentified woman standing on a bridge over Lion Canal in 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, gondoliers sailed boats under elegant bridges such as the one shown in this photograph, in an effort to attract businesses, residents, and investors. In 1911, the name officially changed to Venice. By 1929, however, many of the canals had been filled in to create roadways, and those canals 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 04, Photograph 222
  Caption: "Highlands Inn," c. 1920. Grace McCarthy sitting on a bench on the stone and timber porch of the Highlands Inn in Carmel Highlands, a few miles south of Carmel-by-the-Sea. The hotel was built in 1917.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 230
  Caption: "Pinnacles," c. 1920. Grace McCarthy seated on a rocky outcropping in front of cliffs with unique rock formations in background. Pinnacles National Park was formerly Pinnacles National Monument, established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The rock formations are the eroded remains of the Neenach Volcano.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 290
  Caption: "East Lake [sic] Park," c. 1910. Eastlake Park in Los Angeles was originally created by the city in 1881 under the name "East Los Angeles Park." Renamed Eastlake Park in 1901, it gained its current name, Lincoln Park, in 1917. In this photograph, Grace McCarthy, seen from across East Lake, stands at the lake's edge on the right, surrounded by lush vegetation and park benches.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 233
  No caption, c. 1920. Four unidentified women, with Grace McCarthy (second from the right) in what appears to be a park, in front of bushes and ornamental grass.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 234
  No caption, c. 1920. Grace McCarthy standing by automobile shaded by trees.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 109
  Caption: "Los Angeles -- San Bernardino Boulevard.," c. 1915-1916. Grace McCarthy standing near automobile parked on country road under large oak tree.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 293
  Caption: "This Monument Marks the Spot Where East and West Union Pacific R.R. Was Joined in Completion. Ames Monument, Near Summit Between Cheyenne & Larmie [sic]. Sept. 30, 1934." Grace McCarthy stands in front of the large four-sided pyramid of the Ames Monument in this photograph. The monument, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, does not mark the spot where the transcontinental railroad was joined (that occurred at Promontory Summit in Utah). Instead, the Ames Monument commemorates brothers Oakes and Oliver Ames, financiers of the Union Pacific Railroad, builder of the eastern portion of the transcontinental railroad line. At the time the pyramid was constructed in 1882, it stood at the highest point in elevation attained by the transcontinental railroad (8,247 feet).
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 112
  Caption: "San Diego Exposition," c. 1915-1916. Grace McCarthy and unidentified people in automobile at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. The Panama-California Exposition was held in San Diego in 1915 and 1916 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. It was smaller in scale and less well-funded than the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in 1915 in San Francisco. See also 96-07-08-alb05-071.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 115
  Caption: "Coronado Ferry," c. 1915-1916. Grace McCarthy and two unidentified individuals in an automobile on the Coronado Ferry, traveling between San Diego and Coronado.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 116
  Caption: "Coronado Tent City," c. 1915-1916. Grace McCarthy and two unidentified people in an automobile near a row of small beach shacks with thatched roofs and striped fabric walls and doorways. The Coronado Hotel is visible in the background. 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.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 195
  Caption: "City Hall, Broad St. Philadelphia, PA. July 31, 1934." Street scene along Broad Street in Philadelphia, with the City Hall building visible in the middle of the photograph. Philadelphia's City Hall was built in 1901, designed by architect John McArthur, Jr. At completion, the building was the world's tallest inhabitable structure. It is the largest municipal building in the world, with almost 700 rooms. A 37-foot-tall statute of William Penn (founder of Philadelphia) adorns the peak of the structure, created by Alexander Milne Calder.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 157
  Caption: "View of Portland Fair Grounds." This photograph shows a panoramic view of the fair grounds where the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition was held in Portland, Oregon, from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. The international exposition celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 163
  Caption: "View of Fair Grounds, Portland." This photograph shows several buildings of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, including the Foreign Palace (foreground), the Oriental Palace to its left, and the darkly-colored Forestry Building at the far left. The exposition was held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 196
  No caption, c. 1915-1920. William (far left) and Grace (second from the right) with three unidentified women, standing in front of garden at an unknown location.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 258
  Caption: "City Hall and McKinley Monument. Buffalo, New York. Sept. 11, 1934, McKinley Monument." Buffalo's City Hall dominates this photograph. Designed by architect John Wade, the Art Deco-style building was completed in 1931. The white obelisk of McKinley Monument rises to the right of City Hall, commemorating William McKinley, 25th President of the US. He was shot while attending the World's Fair in Buffalo in 1901.
• McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 266
  Caption: "The Arrival of the Atlantic Fleet at the Golden Gate -- May 6, 1908. San Francisco, California." and "Copyright 1908, Chas. Weidner, S.F." This photograph, by Charles Weidner, shows the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet, consisting of sixteen battle cruisers and various support vessels, steaming toward the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay. President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the Atlantic Fleet (later called the "Great White Fleet" because the ships were painted white with gold trim) on a tour around the world, beginning in December 1907, to show American goodwill and also demonstrate the power of the U.S. Navy. The Fleet reached the Golden Gate, entrance to San Francisco Bay, on May 6, 1908.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 126
  Caption: "Tiajuana [sic] River Bridge. Not much choice between bridge and muddy road," c. 1915-1916. Dilapidated bridge on right side of photograph, with automobile driving over muddy road next to the bridge.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 185
  Caption: "Council Crest -- Portland," c. 1909. Buildings and benches in a park setting, with a tall observation tower, labeled the "Observatory," at the right side of the photograph. Council Crest Park in Portland, Oregon was the site of an amusement park between 1907 and 1929. The buildings in this photograph were part of that park. The Observatory, built in 1907, was demolished in 1941 to make room for a water tower. The area is still in use as a municipal park.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 257
  No caption, c. 1890. Photograph portrait of unidentified woman.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 002
  Caption: "Snow Sheds in the Sierras." Mountain scene with snow sheds, used to shelter trains from winter storms, in center of photograph.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 258
  No caption, c. 1890. Photograph portrait of unidentified man.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 259
  No caption, c. 1890. Photograph portrait of an unidentified young man.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 066
  Caption: "Mobile Bay, Mobile, Alabama, June 21, 34." The photograph provides a view of Mobile Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama. The City of Mobile sits at its northwestern shore. Harbor facilities are evident in the photograph, and several small boats are docked at a wharf, including the tugboat Harry G. Lytle.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 004
  Caption: "Carquinez Bridge -- Crockett, Cal." This photograph shows the original Carquinez Bridge, built to span the Carquinez Strait and thereby contribute to a direct route between Sacramento and San Francisco. The steel cantilevered bridge, designed by Robinson & Steinman, was constructed in 1927. It is no longer extant, having been replaced by two parallel bridges constructed in 1958 and 2003. The structure of the original bridge was removed in 2007. See also 96-07-08-alb11-307 with caption: "Carquinez Bridge, Crockett, California. Oct. 9, 1934."
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 133
  Caption: "Blue Lakes Resort -- Lake County," c. 1920. Lake with resort buildings in center of photograph, mountains in the background.