Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 105
  Caption: "Hialeah Race Track -- Miami -- Florida July 1, 1934." Grace McCarthy standing behind the grandstand at Hialeah Park Race Track, in Hialeah (near Miami). Constructed in 1922 as a greyhound racetrack, Hialeah began hosting horse races in 1925. Joseph E. Widener purchased the track in 1930. He embarked upon a series of improvements, adding a grandstand (seen here) and clubhouse facilities designed by Lester W. Geisler, as well as landscaped gardens and a lake in the infield that became home to a flock of flamingos. The new and improved Hialeah track, now called Hialeah Park, officially opened in 1932.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 104
  Caption: "Alligator Wrestler at the Alligator Farm -- Miami Fla. July 1, 1934." Unidentified man kneeling with his knees entrapping an alligator, and holding its mouth closed with his hands.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 103
  Caption: "Alligator Wrestler Holding the Alligators Mouth Open. Alligator Farm -- Miami, Fla. July 1, 1934." Unidentified man lying on his back, holding an alligator between his legs and forcing its mouth open to expose its teeth.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 102
  Caption: "Alligator Wrestler at the Alligator Farm -- Miami -- Flopida [sic] July, [sic] 1 1934." An unidentified man grasps an alligator by the snout in this photograph.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 101
  Caption: "Alligator Farm -- Miami -- Florida. July 1, 1934." View of a holding pen at an alligator farm, with over a dozen alligators sunbathing.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 100
  Caption: "Seminole Indian Village -- Miami -- Florida. June, [sic] 30, 1934." Several shelters with roofs of thatched grass or brush, with several unidentified women and children scattered throughout the photograph. The Seminoles are a Native American tribe from Florida, although most of the tribe had been forcibly relocated from Florida to Oklahoma by 1842. Fewer than 200 remained in Florida after the Third Seminole War ended in 1858, but a resurgence of the tribe occurred in the early to mid twentieth century. The Florida Seminole tribe received federal recognition in 1957.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 099
  Caption: "Miami -- View from Beach, June 30, 1934." View of Miami's skyline from across a stretch of ocean. The Miami-Biltmore Hotel can be seen in the center of the photograph, with the Miami-Dade County Courthouse just to its right.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 098
  Caption: "Biltmore Hotel -- Coral Gables -- Miami -- Florida. June 30, 1934." View of the Miami Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, part of the Bowman-Biltmore hotel chain. The luxury hotel, designed by Schultze and Weaver, was the tallest building in Florida at the time of its completion in 1926. It held this record until 1928, when the Miami-Dade Courthouse was constructed.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 097
  Caption: "Miami Fla. Miami Beach in the Distance. Taken from City Hall Tower, June 30, 1934." Bird's eye view of Miami, with the ocean in the distance. This photograph was likely taken from atop the Miami-Dade Courthouse rather than City Hall.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 096
  Caption: "Miami Beach, Florida. June 30 1934." William and Grace McCarthy posing on a beach at the ocean's edge, with surf foaming around their ankles.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 095
  Caption: "Miami Beach, Florida. June 30 1934." William and Grace McCarthy posing in front of a Miami Beach lifeboat, with surf foaming around their ankles.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 094
  Caption: "Miami Beach -- Florida, June 30." Crowded beach scene with palm trees at the right and the water in the distance to the left.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 093
  Caption: "City Hall -- Miami -- Florida, June 30 1934." This photograph depicts the Miami-Dade County Courthouse (not Miami's City Hall). Designed by architect A. Ten Eyck Brown, the Courthouse was constructed between 1925-1928. At the time of its construction, it was the tallest building in Florida.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 092
  Caption: "Seminole Indian Women Washing Clothes -- Everglades -- Fla. June 30, 1934." Two unidentified women and a small child washing clothing. Several articles of clothing are spread out to dry on a canoe lifted off the ground by sawhorses made of logs. They are likely Seminoles, a Native American tribe in Florida, although most of the tribe had been forcibly relocated from Florida to Oklahoma by 1842. Fewer than 200 remained in Florida after the Third Seminole War ended in 1858, but a resurgence of the tribe occurred in the early to mid twentieth century. The Florida Seminole tribe received federal recognition in 1957.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 091
  Caption: "Tamiami Trail Through the Florida Everglades, June 27, 1934." Asphalt-paved road stretching into the distance, flanked on one side by a canal. The Tamiami Trail constitutes a scenic portion of what is now U.S. Highway 41. Work on a road connecting Tampa with Miami began in 1915, but the Trail was not officially opened until 1928. Work on the route required building across a portion of the massive swamp system of the Everglades. Workers dredged and blasted a canal along the route, and used the fill dirt thus removed to construct the roadway proper.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 090
  Caption: "Naples Tourist Camp -- Naples -- Florida -- June 28 1934." William and Grace McCarthy standing near an automobile parked in a thatched shelter.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 089
  Caption: "Stret [sic] Leading to Fords and Edisons Winter Homes, Fort Meyers -- Florida June 28, 1934." Paved street lined by palms and lush vegetation. This road is likely McGregor Boulevard in Fort Meyers. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford purchased adjacent properties in Fort Meyers and built vacation or winter homes that were opened to the public for tours in 1947 and 1990, respectively. The two properties are now known collectively as the Edison and Ford Winter Estates.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 088
  Caption: "Ringling Museum -- Sarasota -- Florida, June 28 1934." Entrance to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida's state art museum established by John and Mable Ringling in 1927. John was a promoter and part-owner of the famous Ringling Brothers Circus, along with four of his brothers. When John and Mable built a winter home in Sarasota in 1926, they also explored the possibility of establishing an art gallery on the same property. Architect John H. Phillips designed the building, which opened to the public in 1931. John Ringling willed the facility and the art collection to the state of Florida upon his death in 1936. The museum, now known simply as "The Ringling," is under the jurisdiction of the University of Florida.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 087
  Caption: "Street Scene -- Clearwater -- Florida -- June 27, 1934." Residential street in Clearwater, Florida (incorporated in 1891). The street is lined by palm trees and has wide grass verges on either side. A bicycle has been temporarily forgotten at the left-hand side of the photograph.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 086
  Caption: "Bay Shore [sic] Boulevard -- Tampa -- Florida -- June 27, 1934." Street scene along Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa, showing a cobbled street lined by large residences.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 085
  Caption: "Lakeland Florida June 26, 1934." View of the skyline of Lakeland across Mirror Lake. Founded by Abraham Munn and incorporated in 1885, the city of Lakeland is located east of Tampa.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 084
  Caption: "Mountain Lake, Bok Singing Tower in the Distance -- Florida, June 26, 1934." Lake scene, with lush vegetation and the Singing Tower of Bok Tower Gardens visible in the center of the photograph. Mountain Lake, named for the lake near which it was established, was founded by Frederick S. Ruth in 1916.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 083
  Caption: "Bok Singing Tower, Lake Wales -- Florida, June 26, 1934." View of the Bok Singing Tower in the Bok Tower Gardens, a 250-acre contemplative garden and bird sanctuary dedicated in 1929. The 205-foot-tall tower, designed by architect Milton B. Medary, was completed by February 1929. It features Gothic Revival and Art Deco detailing. A 60-bell carillon can be played by a clavier (keyboard) in the bell chamber.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 082
  Caption: "Florida Highway. June 26, 1934." Tall trees, many hung with Spanish moss, line this unidentified Florida highway.
• 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 11, Photograph 080
  Caption: "Florida Orange Groves -- Orlando, Florida, June 26, 1934." Orange groves line a road near Orlando in this photograph.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 079
  Caption: "Negro Hut Near Orlando -- Florida -- June 25 1934." An unidentified man and woman stand on the front porch of a small home with wood siding and a corrugated metal roof.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 078
  Caption: "Bok Singing Tower, Lake Wales -- Florida, June 26, 34." William McCarthy stands in Bok Tower Gardens, a 250-acre contemplative garden and bird sanctuary dedicated in 1929. The centerpiece of the gardens appears behind William: the Bok Singing Tower. The 205-foot-tall tower, designed by architect Milton B. Medary, was completed by February 1929. It features Gothic revival and Art Deco detailing. A 60-bell carillon can be played by a clavier (keyboard) in the bell chamber.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 077
  Caption: "In Memory of Florida Confederates, Memorial Monument -- Pensacola Florida, June 21, 34." Photograph of the pillar and statue erected in Pensacola's Lee Square in 1891, memorializing "the Uncrowned Heroes of the Southern Confederacy" and Confederate leaders such as Jefferson Davis. Two low pyramids made up of cannon balls bracket the monument. As of the time of this writing (November 2017), controversy swirls around efforts to remove the memorial.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 076
  Caption: "Oklahawaha [sic] River at Silver Springs -- Florida, June 24, 34." View of a placid Ocklawaha River flowing by a lush park on the bank opposite the photographer.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 075
  Caption: "Silver Springs -- Florida, June 24, 1934." Grace McCarthy seated in a gazebo with a conical roof sheathed in grass or brush. Silver Springs, a series of artesian springs in Marion County, was Florida's first tourist attraction. The area began to attract visitors after the Civil War, in the late 1860s. In the late 1870s, entrepreneurs started offering glass-bottom boat tours of the springs. The locale became popular in the 1930s with film producers: several of the original Tarzan movies were filmed here, as was the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 074
  Caption: "Sugar Cane and Cotton Fields -- Florida, June 23, 34." A sugar cane field (at left) borders a cotton field (at right) in this photograph.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 073
  Caption: "Suwannee River -- Florida, June 23, 1934." William and Grace McCarthy posing beneath a sign reading "'Way Down Upon The Suwannee River', Stephen Foster," referring to the minstrel song written by Foster in 1851. The Suwannee River flows by in the background.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 072
  Caption: "Monroe St. Tallahassee -- Florida, June 23 1934." Street scene, showing Tallahassee's Monroe Street. Trees and residences line the roadway, with Spanish moss dripping from some of the trees.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 071
  Caption: "State Capitol Tallahassee, Florida, June 23, 1934." View of the Florida State Capitol building, constructed in 1845. The dome, visible in the center of the photograph, was added in 1902. The building was altered and expanded several more times over the years, until a new State Capitol was built in the late 1970s. The old Capitol building was subsequently restored to its 1902 appearance and reopened to the public in 1982.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 070
  Caption: "Mrs Eliza Smarts Home and Kin -- Chattahoochee, Florida, June 22, 34." Eliza Smart (standing, on the left), two unidentified women, and nine children posing on the porch of a house with wood siding. This is one of the few photographs in which the McCarthys identified some of the people who they met along their travels.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 069
  Caption: "Mrs Eliza Smart and Family -- Chattahoochee, Florida, June 22, 34." Eliza Smart (standing in the back) and nine unidentified children, posing under a tree for the photograph. This is one of the few photographs in which the McCarthys identified the people who they met along their travels.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 068
  Caption: "Florida Highway, June 21 34." A tree-lined, unidentified highway stretches into the distance in this photograph.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 067
  Caption: "Palofax [sic] St. Pensacola, Florida, June 21, 34." Street scene on Palafox Street in Pensacola. In the foreground the street is lined with trees, while a city center is visible in the distance.
• 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 11, Photograph 065
  Caption: "Great Southern Hotel -- Gulfport -- Mississippi -- June 19, 34." The Great Southern Hotel, built in 1902-1903 by entrepreneur Joseph T. Jones (also the founder of Gulfport), offered luxurious amenities such as telephones in each room, baths, hot and cold running water, billiards, gardens, and a tennis court. The hotel was hit hard by the Great Depression in the 1930s, even closing briefly. After a short-lived revival in the 1940s, the hotel was demolished in 1951 to make way for U.S. Highway 90.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 064
  Caption: "Mothers War Memorial, Gulfport, Mississippi, June 19, 34." A columned memorial is visible at the left side of this photograph of Gulfport, Mississippi. Two multi-story buildings stand at the right.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 063
  Caption: "Causeway Crossing Lake Pontchartrain -- New Orleans -- June 19, 34." The concrete deck of the Maestri Bridge (also called the Pontchartrain Bridge, the Five Mile Bridge, or the Watson-Williams Pontchartrain Bridge) stretches into the distance over Lake Pontchartrain in this photograph. Built in 1928 as the first permanent crossing of Lake Pontchartrain, it was also the longest concrete bridge in the world at the time of its construction. The bridge, almost five miles long, spans the lake between New Orleans and Slidell, Louisiana.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 062
  Unidentified African-American woman, several children, and a dog posing on and around the porch of a wood-plank home. *Please Note:* Original caption removed due to sensitive content. To view the original photograph with caption, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 061
  Unidentified African-American woman and several children posing on the porch of a wood-plank home. *Please Note:* Original caption removed due to sensitive content. To view the original photograph with caption, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 060
  Unidentified African-American woman and several children posing on the porch of a wood-plank home. *Please Note:* Original caption removed due to sensitive content. To view the original photograph with caption, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 059
  Unidentified African-American woman, several children, and a dog, posing on and around the porch of a wood-plank home. *Please note:* Original caption removed due to sensitive content. To view the original photograph with caption, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 058
  Caption: "Home of Mary Clark -- Movie Star -- New Orleans, June 17, 1934." View of large, two-story residence in New Orleans. William McCarthy described this as the home of Helen Marguerite Clark, a silent film actress who married Louisiana businessman Harry Palmerston Williams. California State Archives staff were not able to confirm that this house was one of the New Orleans-area residences owned by the couple.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 057
  Caption: "City Parkway -- New Orleans. June 16, 34." A row of palm trees interspersed with deciduous trees runs down the middle of this road in New Orleans.
• McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 056
  Caption: "Unloading Bananas from Steamer at New Orleans, June 16 34." Conveyor belt, and workers unloading bunches of bananas from a cargo ship.