Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 267b
  No caption. Commemorative U.S. postage stamp issued in 1933 for Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition, celebrating the one-hundred year anniversary of Chicago's incorporation. This stamp features Fort Dearborn, a fort built in 1803 in what is now Chicago proper. While the original fort was destroyed during the War of 1812, and the second fort which replaced it was destroyed by fires in 1857 and 1871, a replica was constructed for the Exposition.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 267a
  No caption. Commemorative U.S. Postage stamp issued in 1933 for Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition, celebrating the one-hundred year anniversary of Chicago's incorporation. This stamp features the Exposition's Federal Building. Its three tall columns represent each branch of the federal government.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 267
  Caption: "Michigan Avenue and Business Section, Chicago. Ill. Sept. 15, 1934." View of a portion of Chicago's skyline from Michigan Avenue.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 266
  Caption: "State Street, Chicago, Ill. Sept. 15, 1934." Busy street scene in Chicago, featuring a view of a raised rail track for what appear to be passenger trains.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 265
  Caption: "State Street, Chicago, Ill. Sept. 15, 1934." Busy street scene in Chicago, with dozens of pedestrians, automobiles, and a street car or trolley.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 264
  Caption: "Notre Dame College. South Bend, Indiana. Sept. 14, 1734 [sic], Sept. 14, 1934." Founded in 1842 and officially chartered in 1844, the University of Notre Dame is a Catholic research university famous world-wide for the quality of the education it provides. This photograph shows the Main Building's domed tower, (just to the right of center), and the steeple of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart (center), the university's on-site Catholic Church.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 263
  Caption: "Studebaker Factory. South Bend, Indiana. Sept. 13, 1934." Two buildings of the Studebaker Factory in South Bend are visible in this photograph. The Studebaker brothers started operations in South Bend in 1852, when they established a blacksmith shop and foundry. They soon began building wagons and carriages, demand for which soared with the advent of the Civil War and an increase in migration toward and into the American West. The company gradually phased out wagon production in favor of automobile manufacture in the early twentieth century. Sales declined after World War II, leading to the eventual closure of the factory in 1963.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 262
  Caption: "Railroad and Vehicular Traffic Section of Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 12, 1934." Bird's eye view of an industrial section of Cleveland, showing rail yard facilities and a busy highway.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 261
  Caption: "Lake Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Sept. 12, 1934." Street scene along Cleveland's Lake Avenue. The roadway is lined by trees and grassy verges.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 260
  Caption: "Cleveland. View from Terminal Building. Ohio. Sept. 12, 34." Bird's eye view of a portion of Cleveland's downtown, as seen from the Terminal Tower.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 259
  Caption: "Civic Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 12, 1934." View of a busy intersection in Cleveland's Civic Center, a district housing several governmental buildings.
• 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 11, Photograph 257
  Caption: "Niagara River Tourist Camp. Niagara, New York. Sept. 10, 1934." William McCarthy standing next to an automobile in an early auto camp near Niagara Falls.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 256
  Caption: "A Smiling Canadian Bobby. Niagara Falls -- Canada. Sept. 10, 1934." Grace McCarthy posing with a Canadian police officer in front of Niagara Falls.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 255
  Caption: "Victoria Park. Niagara Falls, Canada, Sept. 10, 1934." Broad roadway flanked by manicured grounds and trees, running through Queen Victoria Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1888, the park is operated today by the Niagara Parks Commission.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 254
  Caption: "Niagara Falls, Sept. 10, 1934." View of a portion of the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 253
  Caption: "Niagara Falls, Sept. 10, 1934." View of Horseshoe Falls, largest of the three waterfalls that make up the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 252
  Caption: "Niagara Falls, Sept. 10, 1934." View of a portion of the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 251
  Caption: "Niagara Falls. Sept. 10, 1934." View of Horseshoe Falls, largest of the three waterfalls that make up the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 250
  Caption: "Niagara Falls, Canada, Sept. 10, 1934." View of a portion of the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 249
  Caption: "Washington Park, Albany, New York, Sept. 8, 1934." Albany's Washington Park was established in the early 1870s. Washington Park Lake, a portion of which is seen in this photograph, was created by damming Beaverkill Creek in 1873. The Lake House in the photograph was constructed in 1929, replacing an earlier building.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 248
  Caption: "Delaware and Hudson R.R. Office Building, Albany, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1934." View of the enormous Gothic building constructed by and for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company between 1914-1918. It also housed the offices of the Albany Evening Journal. A small city park sits in front of the building's central tower, surrounded on all sides by a looped street originally intended for trolley cars. The building was gradually abandoned by the businesses within, until purchased in 1973 by the State University of New York (SUNY). SUNY renovated the building for use as its administrative offices, a purpose which it still serves today.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 247
  Caption: "Capitol Building of New York State, Albany, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1934." New York State's Capitol Building was constructed between 1867 and 1899. The initial architect, Thomas Fuller, designed the first floor in a Classical or Romanesque style. He was replaced by Leopold Eidlitz and Henry Hobson Richardson, who designed the next two floors in a Renaissance style. The final architect to preside over the project was Isaac G. Perry, who completed the building in a Victorian-Romanesque style. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1979.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 246
  Caption: "Hudson River Bridge, Albany, New York. Sept. 7, 1934." View of an automobile bridge in the foreground, with a concrete deck, and what appears to be a railroad bridge, possibly of the bascule or swing type, in the background.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 245
  Caption: "Mohawk Trail, Hoosac Mountains, Massachusetts. Greenfield Mass to Albany New York, Sept 7, 1934." Hairpin turn on the Mohawk Trail, a scenic highway in Massachusetts. The Trail, originally a trade route for Native American tribes, was adopted as the route for the first scenic road constructed in the state. A gravel road was built along the route between 1912 and 1914, and later expanded as automobile traffic increased nation-wide. It is now part of Massachusetts Route 2.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 244
  Caption: "Starrett Tool Works, Athol, Massachusetts. Sept. 6, 1934." The Starrett Tool Works was founded in 1880, when Laroy Sunderland Starrett started a tool shop in Athol. He later expanded the facility, until by 1906 the company employed more than 1,000 workers in the manufacture of precision tools. By the time Starrett died in 1922, the company had achieved global recognition, establishing offices in more than a dozen countries. Starrett is still in operation today.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 243
  Caption: "Connecticut River, Greenfield. Mass. Sept. 6, 1934." Picturesque view of the Connecticut River, flanked by rolling hills and mirroring the clouds in the sky above.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 242
  Caption: "Longfellow Bridge, Boston, Mass. Sept. 5, 1934." The Longfellow Bridge spans the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge. Originally called the Cambridge Bridge, it replaced a wood structure called the West Boston Bridge that had been constructed in 1793. This wood bridge was unable to handle large volumes of traffic or the introduction of street cars, so a new bridge was built in the early twentieth century. Opened in 1906 as the Cambridge Bridge, the name was changed in 1927 to the Longfellow Bridge in honor of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It is colloquially known as the Salt and Pepper Bridge, as its central towers are reminiscent in shape of salt and pepper shakers.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 241
  Caption: "Boston Harbor. View from Custom House Building. Sept 5, 1934." Bird's eye view of Boston Harbor and surrounding port and wharf facilities.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 240
  Caption: "Historic North Church, Boston. Where Signal was Hung for Paul Revere, Sept. 5, 1934." View of the clock tower and steeple of the Old North Church, built in 1723. The church is said to be the site where Paul Revere, after his famous midnight ride, caused two lanterns to be hung as the signal that British troops were advancing into the area by sea rather than by land.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 239
  Caption: "Boston State House. Sept. 5, 1934." The Massachusetts State House has been the seat of government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since its completion in 1798. Designed by Charles Bullfinch, its prominent feature is its gold-leafed dome. The building, a significant example of Federal architecture in a civic structure, has been declared a National Historic Landmark.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 238
  Caption: "Picturesque Connecticut Highway. U.S. No 1. Sept. 4, 1934." William McCarthy standing next to a U.S. Route 1 sign along a tree-lined highway. U.S. Route 1 is a north-south highway connecting the eastern seaboard from Fort Kent, Maine to Key West, Florida.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 237
  Caption: "Thames River Bridge, New London, Connecticut. Where Harvard and Yale Hold their Annual Rowing Regatta, Sept. 4, 1934." View of two bridges over the Thames River near New London, Connecticut. The drawbridge in the foreground was originally a railroad bridge, built in the late nineteenth century. Later, as automobiles grew in popularity, this bridge was converted to use by vehicles (cars can be seen driving over it in this photograph), and a second bridge was constructed for railroad use (a locomotive can be seen behind the two cars). Neither of these bridges survives today, having been replaced by the Gold Star Memorial Bridge.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 236
  Caption: "George Washington Bridge, Crossing the Hudson River, N.Y. Sept. 3, 1934." This suspension bridge, designed by Othmar Ammann, spans the Hudson River between Manhattan in New York City, and Fort Lee, New Jersey. Constructed between 1927 and 1931, the bridge included the longest main span in the world at the time, a record it held until construction of the Golden Gate Bridge was completed in 1937. It was originally built with only one deck (as seen in this photograph), but a second deck opened in 1962. Still in active use today, it carried over 51 million vehicles in 2016.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 235
  Caption: "The Walsh Home, Brooklyn, New York. Sept. 2, 1934." View of a three-story brick house or apartment building, with a park or empty lot on one side. See also 96-07-08-alb09-202.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 234
  Caption: "Sept. 1, 1934." Grace McCarthy (center) posing with Jim Walsh (second from the right), his wife (far right), and two unidentified individuals, in front of a covered patio.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 233
  Caption: "Bowling Green, New York. Aug. 31, 1934." Street scene in New York City, showing Broadway near the small public park Bowling Green. See also 96-07-08-alb04-076 and 96-07-08-alb09-204.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 232
  Caption: "The Jim Walsh Family. Aug. 30, 193 [sic]." Jim Walsh (at left), his wife, and three children posing for a photograph in front of a covered patio.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 231a
  Caption: "Aug. 28, 1934." Clipping from unidentified newspaper or pamphlet regarding "High Buildings in New York City." The clipping gives the names, addresses, number of stories, and height in feet of thirty-four New York skyscrapers.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 231
  Caption: "Trinity Church, Wall Street. Aug. 29, 1934. New York City." The 281-foot-high steeple of Trinity Church spears the sky between two tall buildings on New York City's Wall Street in this photograph. The church, dedicated in 1846, was the third church built at the site. Designed by Richard Upjohn when the second Trinity Church had to be replaced due to structural issues, the present church is one of the earliest examples of Gothic Revival or Neo-Gothic architecture in the nation. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 230
  Caption: "Aug. 27, 1934." Grace McCarthy and an unidentified woman posing beside large bird bath or fountain, in front of the John Shields residence in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island. See also 96-07-08-alb04-071 and 96-07-08-alb09-208.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 229
  Caption: "Statue of Liberty, New York." View of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe Island (now called Liberty Island). Designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the now-iconic statue was a gift from the people of France to the U.S. Built in segments in France by Gustave Eiffel (also famous for building the Eiffel Tower in Paris), the pieces were shipped from Paris to New York in 1885 and assembled. The Statue of Liberty was subsequently dedicated on October 28, 1886.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 228
  Caption: "Jones's [sic] Beach Tower, New York. Aug. 26 1934." The large tower in the center of this photograph was a 188-foot-tall water tower in Jones Beach, built in 1930 in imitation of the Italianate-style bell tower of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. The Long Island State Park Commission began to develop what is now the Jones Beach area for a park in the 1920s, dredging enough sand to connect several of the barrier islands south of Long Island and raising the elevation of the islands by fourteen feet to create one large park. It opened to the public in 1929. It is now a state park, with an estimated six million visitors each year.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 227
  Caption: "The La Salle [sic], New York. Aug. 25, 1934." View of a Cadillac LaSalle parked in a driveway. The LaSalle was produced by General Motors' Cadillac division between 1927 and 1940.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 226
  Caption: "Daybreak. Side View, Long Island, New York. Aug. 24, 1934." Residence of John Shields, on Long Island in the Daybreak Estate area.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 225
  Caption: "Vincent, Aug. 23, 1934." Young boy posing for a photograph on a patio or in a garden.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 224
  Caption: "Aug. 22, 1934." Unidentified man and woman posing in a garden.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 223
  No caption, c. 1934. Undated photograph of an unidentified woman, possibly taken in a photography studio.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 222
  Caption: "Guest Room, Daybreak, Long Island, New York. Aug. 21, 1934." Grace McCarthy seated at a desk reading a book, with a bed to one side and a dresser on the other. See also 96-07-08-alb09-174.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 221
  Caption: "Daybreak. Front View, Long Island, New York. Aug. 20, 1934." Residence of John Shields, on Long Island in the Daybreak Estate area. See also 96-07-08-alb09-159.