Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 087
  Caption: "Boulder Dam, View From Lower Side - 40 Foot Highway on Top of Dam," c. 1935, shows the dam near the completion of its construction.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 086
  Caption: "Power Transmission Tower. 2411 Towers - 270 Miles. 1.4 Inch DIA. Power Line. One of the Towers of the Power Line From Boulder Dam to L.A.," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 085
  Caption: "Transportation Busses [sic] - Boulder City to Boulder Dam," c. 1935, shows a line of double-decker buses used to transport workers from Boulder City to Boulder Dam.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 084
  Caption: "Boulder City," c. 1935, shows the municipality originally constructed for workers of the Boulder Dam.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 083a
  No Caption: A 1935 three-cent U.S. Postage stamp, featuring Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam, which was constructed between 1931 and 1936. The concrete arch-gravity dam is located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between Clark County, Nevada, and Mojave County, Arizona. A National Historic Landmark, the dam provides hydroelectric power, water storage, flood control, and recreation at Lake Mead, the reservoir created by the dam's construction.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 083
  Caption: "Fremont St. Los [sic] Vegas, Nevada," c. 1935, shows the Las Vegas, Nevada thoroughfare.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 082
  Caption: "Beacon Tavern - Barstow, Calif.," c. 1935, shows the Beacon Tavern and Hotel at Barstow, designed in the Spanish-Colonial Revival architectural style. It opened in 1930 and was torn down in 1970, after several years of decline.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 081
  Caption: "Mojave Desert Cactus. Cayon [sic] Pass near Victorville," c. 1935, shows a Joshua Tree in bloom on the Cajon Pass near Victorville.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 080
  Caption: "One of the Main Barracks, March Field, Calif.," c. 1935. Today known as March Air Reserve Base, March Field was one of several airfields established in April 1917, just after the United State's entry in World War 1. The airfield was named for Peyton C. March Jr., son of then Army Chief of Staff, Peyton C. March, who had been killed in an air crash just fifteen days after being commissioned.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 079
  Caption: "In Ford Building Court, San Diego Exposition," 1935, shows William and Grace McCarthy sitting near a fountain in the Ford Building Court, at the California-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 078
  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 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 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 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 074
  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 073
  Caption: "Palace of Fine Arts-San Diego Exposition," 1935. Grace is seen here resting before the Palace of Fine Arts at the California-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 072
  Caption: "Botanical Garden Building - San Diego Exposition," 1935, shows the Botanical Building and Conservatory with reflecting pool that featured lilies, begonias, fuchsias, and a variety of ferns at the California-Pacific International Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 071
  Caption: "Colonades [sic] - San Diego Exposition," 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 070
  Caption: "Night Scene - San Diego Exposition," 1935, a night scene at San Diego's California-Pacific International Exposition shows the Arch of the Future with its multi-colored lights built within the Plaza del Pacifico.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 069
  Caption: "House of Charm - San Diego Exposition," 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 068
  Caption: "Avenue of Palaces - San Diego Exposition," 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 067
  Caption: "Mission-San Diego," c. 1935, shows Mission San Diego de Alcala, the first of twenty-one missions built by the Spanish Franciscans, and founded in 1769 by Father Junipero Serra.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 066
  Caption: "Broadway San Diego, San Diego Population 160,000," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 065
  Caption: "Pima Indian Children and their hut made from bush branches, Sacaton Indian Reservation, Sacaton, Arizona," c. 1935. Located south of Phoenix and including the town of Sacaton, the Gila River Indian Reservation is home to members of the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and the Pee-Posh (Maricopa) tribes. The reservation was established in 1859. Eighty years later, in 1939, Congress provided for the self-governance of the reservation via the Gila River Indian Community.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 064
  Caption: "Pima Indian Children and their hut made from bush branches, Sacaton Indian Reservation, Sacaton, Arizona," c. 1935. Located south of Phoenix and including the town of Sacaton, the Gila River Indian Reservation is home to members of the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and the Pee-Posh (Maricopa) tribes. The reservation was established in 1859. Eighty years later, in 1939, Congress provided for the self-governance of the reservation via the Gila River Indian Community.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 063
  Caption: "Indian Hut Made from Adobe and Bush Branches, Sacaton Indian Reservation - Sacaton, Arizona," c. 1935. View of a small adobe building with a porch area across the length of the façade. The porch is sheltered by a low roof supported by tree trunks or thick tree branches and thatched with grass or sticks. Located south of Phoenix and including the town of Sacaton, the Gila River Indian Reservation is home to members of the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and the Pee-Posh (Maricopa) tribes. The reservation was established in 1859. Eighty years later, in 1939, Congress provided for the self-governance of the reservation via the Gila River Indian Community.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 062
  Caption: "Central Street, Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Population 51,000," c. 1935 shows a busy street scene in Phoenix, Arizona.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 061
  Caption: "Pueblo Indians at Hopi House, Indian War Dance-Arizona Grand Canyon," c. 1935
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 060
  No Caption: A view of the Grand Canyon, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 059
  Caption: "Arizona Grand Canyon and Colorado River," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 058
  Caption: "Puablo [sic] Indian Mother and Child, Arizona Grand Canyon," c. 1935, shows a Pueblo Indian mother with three children.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 057
  Caption: "Arizona Grand Canyon and Colorado River," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 056
  Caption: "At Desert View Tower Arizona Grand Canyon," c. 1935, shows Grace and William McCarthy at the top of the Desert View Watchtower.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 055
  Caption: "Desert View Arizona Grand Canyon," c. 1935, shows William and Grace McCarthy looking out over the Grand Canyon from the top of the Desert View Watchtower.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 054
  Caption: "Arizona Grand Canyon," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 053
  Caption: "Desert View Tower - Arizona Grand Canyon," c. 1935. The Desert View Watchtower, built in 1932, was designed by architect Mary Colter in the style of Ancestral Puebloan watchtowers.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 052
  Caption: "Tourist Camp Grounds-Arizona Grand Canyon," c. 1935, shows Grace McCarthy standing near an automobile at a Grand Canyon campground.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 051
  Caption: "Hermits Rest - Grand Canyon of Arizona," c. 1935, shows Grace McCarthy sitting under an archway made of large boulders, with a bell hanging down from the top center, and "Hermits Rest" spelled out on one of the rocks.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 050
  Caption: "Arizona Grand Canyon," c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 049
  Caption: "Salome Arizona, Giant Cactus or Desert Sentinels - Arizona Desert. June 1, 1935."
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 048
  Caption: "Cactus in Bloom Near Phoenix, Arizona," c. 1935, shows a large cactus in bloom and a bull resting nearby.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 047
  No Caption: A Joshua tree in bloom in the Arizona desert, c. 1935.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 046
  Caption: "Giant Cactus Arizona Desert, Salome, AR. June 1, 1935," shows William McCarthy standing next to a large cactus at Salome, Arizona.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 045
  Caption: "Colorado River at Blythe, Calif. May 31, 1935."
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 044
  Caption: "Tree Bareing [sic] 8 Varieties of Fruit. Shields Date Gardens - Blythe, Calif. May 31, 1935," shows William McCarthy standing next to a tree that bears eight varieties of fruit.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 043
  Caption: "Date Palm, Shields Date Gardens, Blythe, California, May 31, 1935," shows Grace McCarthy standing next to a date palm.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 042
  Caption: "Shields Date Gardens - Coachella Valley, Blythe, Calif. May 31, 1935." Date Palms at the Shields Date Gardens, which opened in 1924 at Blythe, California.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 041
  Caption: "Orocopia Mountains Near Mecca, Calif. May 30, 1935," shows an empty road traversing the Orocopia Mountains near Mecca, in Riverside County.
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 040
  Caption: "El Mirado Hotel-Palm Springs, Calif. May 30, 1935." The Spanish Colonial-Revival style El Mirado Hotel at Palm Springs opened in 1927 and became one of the most fashionable resort destinations for powerful Hollywood studio heads and celebrities. Here Grace is seen posing at the edge of the hotel's famous "plunge."
• McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 039
  Caption: "El Mirado Hotel-Palm Springs, Calif. May 30, 1935." The Spanish Colonial-Revival style El Mirado Hotel at Palm Springs opened in 1927 and became one of the most fashionable resort destinations for powerful Hollywood studio heads and celebrities.