Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 249
  Caption: "The Isthmus Panama California Exposition July 18, 1915," shows a façade of the USS Isthmus where the "War of the Worlds" science fiction extravaganza was presented, which depicted the future destruction of New York City.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 248
  Caption: "Music Stand PC. Expo. San Diego, Cal. July 18, 1915," at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 247
  Caption: "Model Orange Orchard P.C. Exposition, San Diego, Cal."
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 246
  Caption: "Interior of California Building, P.C. Expo. San Diego, July 18, 1915," at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego. See also 96-07-08-alb01-153.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 245
  Caption: "Promenade. Panama California Exposition. San Diego," at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego. See also 96-07-08-alb01-152.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 244
  Caption: "California Building. P.C. Exp. San Diego. July 18, 1915," shows the Cabrillo Bridge to the entryway of the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, with the California Building on the right. See also 96-07-08-alb01-164.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 243
  Caption: "California Counties Building P.C. Exp. San Diego," at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 242
  No Caption: Shows the reflecting pool at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. See also 96-07-08-alb01-163, with caption: "La Laguna Espejada. P.C. Exp. San Diego July 18, 1915."
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 241
  Caption: "La Laguna Espejada or Mirror Pool. P.C. Exp. San Diego," shows the reflecting pool at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego. See also 96-07-08-alb01-162.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 240
  Caption: "Cabrilla [sic] Bridge. P.C. Exp. San Diego. July 18, 1915," Built for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, the Cabrillo Bridge continues to provide access between Balboa Park and the uptown area of San Diego. See also 96-07-08-alb01-161.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 239
  No Caption: see also 96-07-08-alb01-160, with the caption: "Cabrilla [sic] Bridge." Built for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, the Cabrillo Bridge continues to provide access between Balboa Park and the uptown area of San Diego.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 238
  No Caption: William and Grace McCarthy (in white dress) are seen standing before the entrance to the California Building at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego. See also 96-07-08-alb01-159.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 237
  Caption: "Fine Arts Building P.C. Exp.," at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park San Diego. See also 96-07-08-alb01-158.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 236
  Caption: "Varied Industries Building P.C. Exp." William McCarthy is seen standing near the Varied Industries Building, with the California Building in the background, at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego. See also 96-07-08-alb01-157.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 235
  Caption: "Prado. P.C. Exp. July 18, 1915," shows a continuous covered arcade and walkway demarcated by arches at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. See also 96-07-08alb01-156.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 234
  Caption: "General View - Panama -California Exposition, San Diego, Cal." Shows a bird's eye view of the exposition grounds.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 233
  Caption: "Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, July 18, 1915," shows a view of the exposition in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 232
  Caption: "Coronado Hotel," c. 1915, shows the luxury seaside resort in San Diego County, founded by Elisha Babcock and H.L. Story, and built in 1888. The hotel was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1970, and a National Historic Landmark in 1977. See also 96-07-08-alb01-150.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 231
  Caption: "Broadway, San Diego," c. 1915, one of the city's main thoroughfares.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 230
  Caption: "Entrance - California Building," (Bertrum Goodhue, architect), shows the richly-decorated entranceway to the California Building at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego, 1915.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 229
  Caption: "California Building Tower - July 18, 15," (Bertrum Goodhue, architect), at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego, 1915. The exposition's Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture designed by Bertrum Goodhue is credited with giving the style national exposure.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 228
  No Caption: Scenic railway at Venice beach wharf, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 227
  No Caption: shows a street scene in Venice, California, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 226
  No Caption: A view of the Casa Del Rey Hotel in Santa Cruz, California, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 225
  Caption: "Casa Del Rey - Santa Cruz," c. 1915, shows William and Grace McCarthy with an unidentified woman in an automobile in front of the Casa Del Rey Hotel in Santa Cruz, California. The luxury hotel was opened in 1911 by developer Fred W. Swanton. The hotel was demolished after it sustained considerable damage from the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 224
  No Caption: Grace McCarthy is seen standing near the entrance of the Hotel Virginia, on Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach, California. The luxury hotel was opened in 1908 by Col. Charles Rivers Drake, a Civil War veteran and early Long Beach developer. During the Great Depression, the hotel suffered the fate of many businesses during that time and closed its doors in October of 1932.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 223
  Caption: "Long Beach," c. 1915, shows a view of a portion of "The Pike," which was an amusement zone along the shoreline in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1902 by Charles Rivers Drake, a Civil War veteran and early Long Beach developer. The Pike included arcades, gift shops, food stands, a variety of rides, and a grand bath house (the two-story building pictured on the right). After years of disrepair, The Pike was closed in 1979.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 222
  Caption: "San Pedro," c. 1915, shows two ships docked at the harbor in San Pedro, Los Angeles.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 221
  Caption: "Point Firmin [sic] Lighthouse," c. 1915, shows the Point Fermin lighthouse, built in 1874 in San Pedro Bay, which was the first navigational light into the bay. It served as a federally-operated lighthouse until 1927, when its operations were turned over to the City of Los Angeles. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the west coast was blacked out for fear of being an easy target to enemy forces. It was never lit again, but during WWII it served the U.S. Navy as a lookout tower and signaling station for ships coming into the San Pedro Bay. In 2003, the lighthouse was opened after being restored, retrofitted, and rehabilitated for public use. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and managed by the Department of Recreation and Parks of the City of Los Angeles.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 220
  Caption: "Art Museum - Los Angeles," c. 1915. Located in Exposition Park, the Beaux Arts building, opened in 1913, was originally known as the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art. In 1963, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art moved to its current location on Wilshire Blvd. The Exposition Park facility became the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. After two years of renovation and restoration, it was reopened in 2009. See also 96-07-08-alb01-148.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 219
  No Caption: shows Broadway in Los Angeles, c. 1915, with M.A. Hamburger's department store on the right, which later became the May Co. The Majestic Theatre, opened in 1908, can be seen at the end of the block in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 218
  No Caption: c. 1915, shows a monument with a statue of Stephen M. White on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Courthouse. Stephen M. White, a former Los Angeles district attorney, served in the California Senate, as well as acting Lieutenant Governor from 1887-1891. He also served in the United States Senate from 1893 -1899. White was also responsible for the creation of Los Angeles Harbor in San Pedro. The monument was moved in 1989 to the entrance of Cabrillo Beach near the harbor where it resides today.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 217
  No Caption: shows the Venice Miniature Railway on a bridge over a canal in Venice, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 216
  Caption: "Venice," c. 1915, shows the site of Villa City Boating, where visitors to the resort seaside village of Venice could purchase gondola rides on the canals to visit the town. The seaside resort was founded by tobacco millionaire, Abbot Kinney in 1905, and designed to be like the namesake Italian city.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 215
  No Caption: c. 1915. Shows a view of Broadway in Los Angeles. On the right side of the street is Woodley Theatre, a vaudeville theater that opened in 1913.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 214
  Caption: "Broadway, Los Angeles." Broadway is a major thoroughfare of Los Angeles and one of the oldest in the city, laid out in 1849 as Fort Street, and renamed Broadway in 1890. In this image, construction can be seen at the top of the street between the two buildings of the Alhambra Hotel and Apartments. May 18, 1934. See also 96-07-08.alb11.006.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 213
  Caption: "Green Hotel Pasadena," c. 1915, shows Grace McCarthy standing before the Hotel Green in Pasadena, built by George Gill Green in 1893, and expanded by him in 1898 and 1903 with two additional structures. The hotel complex was sold to private investors and by 1924, the 1898 Central Annex structure (Frederick L. Roehrig, architect) was turned into apartments and renamed the Castle Green. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the California Register of Historic Places, and the City of Pasadena's list of historic places. See also 96-07-08-alb07-212.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 212
  Caption: "Pasadena," c. 1915, shows the Hotel Green, built by George Gill Green in 1893, and expanded by him in 1898 and 1903 with two additional structures. The hotel complex was sold to private investors and by 1924, the 1898 Central Annex structure (Frederick L. Roehrig, architect) was turned into apartments and renamed the Castle Green. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the California Register of Historic Places, and the City of Pasadena's list of historic places.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 211
  Caption: "Bush Gardens, Pasadena," c. 1915., shows Grace and William McCarthy relaxing in chairs at Bush Gardens in Pasadena.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 210
  Caption: "Echo Park, Los Angeles," c. 1915, shows a man on a bridge in Echo Park, Los Angeles.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 209
  Caption: "Echo Park, Los Angeles," c. 1915, shows palms and trees lining a small lake in Echo Park, Los Angeles.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 208
  No Caption: Echo Park in Los Angeles with gazebo in the distance, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 207
  Caption: "Court House - Los Angeles." c. 1915-1920. The Los Angeles County Courthouse, also known as the Red Sandstone Courthouse, was completed in 1891. Located at the southeast corner of Temple and Broadway, the courthouse was damaged beyond repair by the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and demolished in 1936. To the left of the courthouse stands the Hall of Records, built in 1911 and used, along with other buildings, as the county courthouse from 1934 until 1959, when the current courthouse was occupied. The Hall of Records was demolished in 1973. See also 96-07-08-alb01-147.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 206
  Caption: "Street Scene-Los Angeles," c. 1915. Shows an unidentified busy street scene in Los Angeles.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 205
  Caption: "Santa Barbara Mission", c. 1910. View of Mission Santa Barbara, established by Spanish Franciscan monks in 1786. See also 96-07-08-alb05-296.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 204
  Caption: "Linnard Hotel Santa Barbara.", c. 1920. Grace McCarthy sitting in front of the Hotel Potter. Opened in 1903 by Milo M. Potter, the hotel sold in 1919 to the Santa Barbara Hotel Company, controlled by D.M. Linnard. The famous luxury resort burned down in 1921. See also 96-07-08-alb05-070, and 96-07-08-alb04-097.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 203
  Caption: "Sulfur Springs," c. 1915, shows a large body of water, likely fed by sulfur springs, at an unidentified location.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 202
  No Caption: shows William McCarthy in a swimsuit near what appears to be a pond in an unidentified location, c. 1915.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 201
  Caption: "Hasting [sic] Residence - Benicia," c. 1915, was a grand home built for Daniel N. Hastings, a prominent landowner. The home, completed in 1881 at the tremendous cost of $350,000, including furnishings, was called "Hastings' folly," because it nearly bankrupted its owner. It was dismantled in 1937.
• McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 200
  Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Office," c. 1915. William McCarthy began his career as an inspector of armaments for the U.S. War Department at the Benicia Arsenal in 1903. The arsenal was established in 1851 as the first Ordnance Supply Depot in the West, from which it supplied and supported U.S. troops from the Civil War through WWII and the Korean War. It was deactivated in 1963.