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  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 379
    Caption: "Hermoso [sic] Dorothy Gandy. A youthful Mexican beauty."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 378a
    Caption: "We stopped at Gandy Courts." A section of a tourist informational brochure describing the village of Tamazunchale, in "the heart of the Huastecan Indian country."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 378
    Caption: "Sam Browns [sic] botanical garden, Huichihuayan, Mexico. Coffee, vanilla, bananas, and many tropical fruits are grown in this garden."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 377
    Caption: "Entering the Tropic of Cancer, fifteen miles south of Victoria, Torrid Zone, Mexico," shows William McCarthy standing beside a sign reading: Tropico de Cancer.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 376
    Caption: "A Spanish type home - Valles, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 375
    Caption: "A natural palm grove on the highway near Villa Juarez, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 374b
    No Caption: A section of a tourist informational brochure describing the Pan American Highway from Victoria to Tamazunchale.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 374a
    No Caption: A section of a tourist informational brochure describing the road from Monterrey to Victoria.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 374
    Caption: "Mexican home and family - Bozo, near Monterey [sic], Mexico." Six children of the Bozo family standing outside their home near Monterrey. ** PLEASE NOTE: The electronic image derived from Album 10, Photograph 374 of the William McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08-alb10-374) contains content that may not be appropriate for online distribution, and has therefore been withheld. The image has also been removed from the Secretary of State’s digital storage systems, including hard drives, shared drives, cloud and other online storage, and digital backup systems. To view the original photograph, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 373
    Caption: "Arco de Independencia, on Avenda [sic] Francisco I. Madero, Monterey [sic], Mexico," shows the Arco de Independencia (Arch of independence) on Avenida (Avenue) Francisco I. Madero, in Monterrey, Mexico.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 372
    Caption: "One of the many beautiful homes, in Monterey [sic], Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 371
    Caption: "The bull charging while the Matador stands motionless. Bull fight - Monterey [sic], Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 370
    Caption: "The bull turns for another charge at the Matador. Bull fight at Monterey [sic], Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 369
    Caption: "Bull Fight, Monterey [sic] Mexico. Cuadrillas entering the arena - Matadores Garcia and Ramirez."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 368
    Caption: "Avenda [sic] Morelos, Monterey [sic], Mexico," shows a busy street scene on Avenida (Avenue) Morelos, Monterrey, Mexico.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 367
    No Caption: A page from a tourist brochure detailing how to travel from Laredo to Monterrey, Mexico.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 366
    Caption: "Indians crude way of obtaining water for home use - Vallecillo, Mexico," 1938, shows a Mexican man in an oxen-driven cart filling a pail with water from a river, while three boys watch from the shore in Vallecillo, Mexico.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 365
    Caption: "Laredo, Texas - Highway entrance to Mexico at International bridge - U.S. Customs office on left. April 12, 1938."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 364
    No Caption: A page from a tourist brochure detailing information about Mexico, including agriculture, forestry, and mining and oil production.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 363
    No Caption: A page from a tourist brochure detailing travel information for tourists to Mexico, including automobile permits, money exchange, baggage inspection, accident insurance, firearms, hunting, registration for cameras, furs, and diamonds, and "Negro servants," which "require a cash bond of 250 pesos, which is refunded upon leaving Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 362
    No Caption: A map of the highway from Laredo to Mexico City.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 361a
    No Caption: A "ANA Asociacion Nacional Automovilistica 'Protection - Service," decal in yellow, red, and blue, with the Mexican symbol of an eagle holding a serpent in its beak and talons, based on the Aztec symbol that represented the founding of the city, Tenochtitlan, today Mexico City.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 361
    No Caption: A page from a tourist brochure with information about Mexico re: total area in square miles, topography, population, and climate.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 360
    Caption: "Our Motor Tour to Mexico City March 26th to June 8th 1938. Total Mileage 5,500, Grace & Will McCarthy. Highway indicated by Blue Line," written on a map of Mexico, with a photograph of William and Grace McCarthy next to a large sign detailing their tour of Mexico as described above.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 359b
    No Caption: An American Express Travel Bureau brochure in red, yellow, and green, and titled: The Way to See Mexico, from The Emporium travel agency in San Francisco. c. 1938.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 359a
    No Caption: A "Mexico by Motor" decal, c. 1938, rectangular, in yellow and purple.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 359
    Caption: "Turista - Mexico - March 26th to June 8th, 1938," handwritten on a Mexico tourist brochure indicating the McCarthys' trip to Mexico in 1938. The brochure itself reads: Mexico - Visit Fiesta Land the Fiesta Way."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 358
    Caption: "Pacos [sic] River - View from Del Rio Highway, Texas." c. 1935. Pecos River and Del Rio Highway, Texas.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 357
    Caption: "Spring time in the Rockies. Picketpost Mountains - Superior, Arizona," c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 356
    Caption: "Long Beach - Calif.," c. 1935, shows sunbathers at the beach at Long Beach.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 355
    Caption: "Ocean Avenue - Long Beach," c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 354
    No Caption: c. 1935. Fannette Island is located in Emerald Bay, on the west shore of Lake Tahoe. In 1928, Mrs. Lora Josephine Knight purchased the property encompassing the head of Emerald Bay and Fannette Island. Knight had a summer home built in Scandinavian architectural style and called it Vikingsholm. The stone structure at the top of Fannette island is the "Tea House," built in 1928-1929, at the same time Vikingsholm was built.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 353
    No Caption: c. 1935, Lake Tahoe.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 352
    No Caption: A group of unidentified men standing and seated at a circular bar at the Cal-Neva Lodge, located on the border of California and Nevada, c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 351
    Caption: "Emerald Bay and Mount Tallac - Lake Tahoe, Calif.," c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 350
    No Caption: Grace McCarthy at Lake Tahoe, c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 349
    Caption: "Lake Tahoe - Calif.," c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 348
    No Caption: Grace McCarthy wearing a swimsuit and standing on the shore of Lake Tahoe, c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 347
    No Caption: A view of Emerald Bay at Lake Tahoe, c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 346
    Caption: "Lake Tahoe, California," c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 345
    No Caption: William McCarthy holding a fish at Lake Tahoe, California, c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 344
    No Caption: An ice skating rink at Yosemite National Park, c. 1932.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 343
    No Caption: A view of snow-covered Half Dome at Yosemite National Park, c. 1932.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 342
    No Caption: Grace McCarthy standing on a snow covered landscape next to a series of snow sculptures with "1932" written in rocks below.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 341
    No Caption: Grace McCarthy standing in the snow at the entrance to Camp Curry campground in Yosemite National Park, c. 1932.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 340
    No Caption: William and Grace McCarthy standing near Mirror Lake at Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 339
    No Caption: A group of people standing at the guard rail on the overhanging rock at Glacier Point, at Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 338
    No Caption: Grace McCarthy feeding a deer at Yosemite National Park, c. 1935.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 337
    No Caption: c. 1935. Pictured are vehicles driving through the famous Wawona Tunnel Tree, a giant sequoia that stood in Mariposa Grove of Yosemite National Park. The tree's tunnel was cut in 1881 as a tourist attraction. In 1969, the tree fell during a severe winter storm. Before it fell, the ancient tree measured 234 ft. high, twenty-six ft. in diameter, and was approximately 2,100 years old.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 336
    No Caption: A tunnel tree in Yosemite National Park, with a sign next to it reading: "California HGT: 246' DIAM: 21'," c. 1935.