Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 276
  Caption: "Foot Bridge," c. 1917. A pedestrian bridge spans the Merced River as it tumbles over and through chunks of granite and rock in Yosemite National Park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 275
  Caption: "Summit of Vernal Falls," c. 1917. The Merced River begins its cascade over Vernal Fall in this photograph.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 274
  No caption. William McCarthy stands in front of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, c. 1935. Opened in 1927 and designed by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood, the Ahwahnee Hotel is located on the floor of Yosemite Valley. It was built as a resort hotel by the Yosemite Park and Curry Company. Modernized over the years, its name was changed to the Majestic Yosemite Hotel in 2016, as a result of legal dispute over trademarked names in the park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 273
  Caption: "Half Dome," c. 1917. The iconic granite Half Dome rises above the Yosemite Valley. This photograph appears to have been taken from across the Valley.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 272
  Caption: "Indian Wigwam," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy poses at the entrance to what William McCarthy labeled a "wigwam," a dwelling of the Ahwahnechee people. The Ahwahnechee (a Native American tribe who traditionally occupied the Yosemite Valley) called the dwellings o-chum. Pine branches were arranged in a tee-pee-like shape and then covered with layered slabs of cedar bark.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 271
  Caption: "Sentinel Hotel," c. 1917. The Sentinel Hotel at Yosemite Village. Construction of this hotel began in 1876, and at the turn of the century it was the only hotel operating in the valley. Increased attendance as the twentieth century progressed resulted in the construction of other tourist areas such as Curry Village, and the Sentinel gradually became obsolete. The Sentinel and the complex of buildings that had grown up around it were torn down in the late 1930s.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 270
  Caption: "Sentinel Hotel," c. 1917. The Sentinel Hotel at Yosemite Village, with a granite cliff in the background and the Merced River in the foreground. Construction of the hotel began in 1876, and at the turn of the century it was the only hotel operating in the valley. Increased attendance as the twentieth century progressed resulted in the construction of other tourist areas such as Curry Village, and the Sentinel gradually became obsolete. The Sentinel and the complex of buildings that had grown up around it were torn down in the late 1930s.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 269
  Caption: "The Village," c. 1917. Street scene in the Yosemite Village, the most developed part of the Yosemite Valley. The Village is home to such amenities as a Post Office, store, medical clinic, fire station, and restaurants. Development began at the site in 1865, but most of the buildings were constructed after 1918.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 268
  Caption: "One of Yosemite's Granite Walls," c. 1917. View of a granite wall carved by glaciers and shaped by water, wind, and rock falls, in the Yosemite Valley.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 267
  Caption: "Currys Garage," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy poses in front of Curry's Garage, a long, low building with bays at either end for vehicles.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 266
  Caption: "Arched Rock- Merced River Drive - Yosemite.," c. 1917. Grace and William McCarthy (to right of the car) pose with their vehicle and an unidentified woman underneath the arched rock on what is now Highway 140, the El Portal Road. The area is now known as the Arched Rock Entrance to Yosemite Valley.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 265
  Caption: "Driveway Through the Dead Giant - Tuolumne Grove - Yosemite," c. 1917. Grace (next to automobile) and William (far right) McCarthy pose with their vehicle and an unidentified woman in the tunnel of "The Dead Giant," the remains of a giant sequoia in the Tuolumne Grove. The tunnel was cut into the trunk in 1878.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 264
  Caption: "Potato Race," c. 1917. Several horseback riders holding long poles skirmish around a bucket in what appears to be a game similar to polo, played with a potato. A crowd has gathered to watch the game, while the rock cliff walls of Yosemite Valley tower in the background. Given the date, this was likely part of Independence Day festivities in the Yosemite Valley.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 263
  Caption: "Potato Race - July 4, 1917." Several horseback riders holding long poles skirmish in what appears to be a game similar to polo, played with a potato. A crowd has gathered to watch the game, while the rock cliff walls of Yosemite Valley tower in the background. Given the date, this was likely part of Independence Day festivities in the Yosemite Valley.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 262
  Caption: "Happy Isles," c. 1917. The Merced River tumbles over rocks and around several small isles in this photograph. The isles are collectively known as the Happy Isles.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 261
  Caption: "Summit of Nevada Falls [sic]," c. 1917. View from the top of Nevada Fall into Yosemite Valley.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 260
  Caption: "Glacier Point - 3000 Feet Above Camp Curry," c. 1917. William McCarthy poses atop Glacier Point, overlooking Yosemite Valley. Glacier Point, on the south wall of the valley 3,200 feet above what is now known as Half Dome Village, provides panoramic views of the valley and many of its features.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 259
  Caption: "On The Hike To Vernal Falls [sic]," c. 1917. William McCarthy poses for a photograph on the trail to Vernal Fall in this photograph.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 258
  Caption: "Mountains in Yosemite," c. 1917. View of rock cliffs and domes in the mountains surrounding Yosemite Valley.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 257
  Caption: "Vernal and Nevada Falls - View From Glacier Point," c. 1917. Both Vernal Fall (bottom center) and Nevada Fall (middle) are observable from this vantage point at Glacier Point.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 256
  Caption: "Mirror Lane - Camp Curry," c. 1917. William and Grace McCarthy pose in front of their tent at what was then called Camp Curry. Yosemite's Half Dome Village, established by David and Jennie Curry in 1899, was originally called Camp Curry, and then later Curry Village. It was designed to provide cheaper accommodations for Yosemite tourists than the resort hotels. The couple rented out furnished tents and provided amenities such as a dining tent. As time progressed, the amenities increased, and some hard-sided cabins created.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 255
  Caption: "Mirror Lane - Camp Curry," c. 1917. William and Grace McCarthy pose in front of their tent at what was then called Camp Curry. Yosemite's Half Dome Village, established by David and Jennie Curry in 1899, was originally called Camp Curry, and then later Curry Village. It was designed to provide cheaper accommodations for Yosemite tourists than the resort hotels. The couple rented out furnished tents and provided amenities such as a dining tent. As time progressed, the amenities increased, and some hard-sided cabins created.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 254
  Caption: "Camp Curry- Yosemite," c. 1917. Yosemite's Half Dome Village, established by David and Jennie Curry in 1899, was originally called Camp Curry, and later Curry Village. It was designed to provide cheaper accommodations for Yosemite tourists than the resort hotels. The couple rented out furnished tents and provided amenities such as a dining tent. As time progressed, the amenities increased, and some hard-sided cabins created. This photograph shows a bustling scene around a large wood cabin with a wide covered porch. As a result of a legal dispute over trademarked names in the park, Curry Village changed its name to Half Dome Village in 2016.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 253
  No caption c. 1917. Grace McCarthy and two unidentified people pose under a log sign reading "Camp Curry." Yosemite's Half Dome Village, established by David and Jennie Curry in 1899, was originally called Camp Curry, and later Curry Village. It was designed to provide cheaper accommodations for Yosemite tourists than the resort hotels. The couple set up furnished tents and provided amenities such as a dining tent. The entrance sign seen in this photograph was erected in 1914. As a result of a legal dispute over trademarked names in the park, Curry Village changed its name to Half Dome Village in 2016.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 252
  Caption: "Vernal Falls [sic]," c. 1917. The Merced River tumbles over and around large chunks of rock in this photograph, with Vernal Fall visible in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 251
  Caption: "Yosemite Falls," c.1917. Both the Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls, on Yosemite Creek, are visible in this photograph, taken from the valley floor. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 250
  Caption: "Yosemite," c. 1917. Yosemite's iconic Half Dome, a granite rock formation, as seen from the valley floor.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 249
  Caption: "Half Dome - Yosemite," c. 1917. The iconic granite Half Dome rises above the Yosemite Valley. This photograph appears to have been taken from a neighboring peak.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 248
  Caption: "Nevada Falls [sic]," c. 1917. Nevada Fall is a 594-foot high waterfall upstream of Vernal Fall on the Merced River, in the Little Yosemite Valley.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 247
  Caption: "Vernal Falls [sic]," c. 1917. Vernal Fall is a 317-foot waterfall on the Merced River, downstream of Nevada Fall.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 246
  Caption: "Yosemite," c. 1917. View of the Yosemite Valley.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 245
  Caption: "Yosemite," c. 1917. View of Yosemite Valley, taken from the valley floor, with Half Dome rising at the right. .
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 244
  Caption: "Yosemite - From Inspiration Point," c. 1917. The Yosemite Valley, showing El Capitan (left middle distance), Cathedral Rocks (right middle distance), and Half Dome (far distance in the center).
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 243a
  No caption. Red pennant with white writing reading "Yosemite Celebration of July 4th 1917."
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 243
  Caption: "Yosemite.," c. 1920. View of the Yosemite Valley from the valley floor, with the Merced River in the foreground, and El Capitan (left) and the Cathedral Rocks (right) in the background. Bridalveil Fall cascades down a cliff face beneath the Cathedral Rocks.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 242
  Caption: "Maricopa Point - Grand Canyon of Arizona," c. 1925. Erroneously labeled, this photograph shows Grace McCarthy standing at the Powell Memorial on Powell Point, rather than Maricopa Point. The granite Powell Memorial commemorates John Wesley Powell, who explored the Colorado River in 1869 and 1872. The 1869 expedition included the first known descent of a person of European ancestry into the Grand Canyon.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 241
  Caption: "Hermits Rest - Grand Canyon," c. 1925. Grace McCarthy poses at the entry arch of Hermit's Rest at the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Hermit's Rest, a rest area for tourists, is located on the Grand Canyon's south rim, at the westernmost point accessible by paved road.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 240
  Caption: "Grand Canyon of Arizona," c. 1925. Bird's eye view of part of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, on the Colorado River.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 239
  Caption: "Grand Canyon of Arizona," c. 1925. Bird's eye view of part of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, on the Colorado River.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 238
  Caption: "Grand Canyon of Arizona," c. 1925. Bird's eye view of part of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, on the Colorado River.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 237
  Caption: "Grand Canyon of Arizona," c. 1925. Bird's eye view of part of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, on the Colorado River.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 236
  Caption: "Grand Canyon of Arizona," c.1925. Bird's eye view of part of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, on the Colorado River.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 235
  Caption: "El Tovar Hotel - Grand Canyon of Arizona," c. 1925. Grace McCarthy posing in front of the El Tovar Hotel, on the south rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Designed by Charles Whittlesey, the hotel opened in 1905 as part of the Harvey House hotel chain.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 234
  Caption: "Peristyle - City Park- New Orleans," c. 1925. The Neoclassical open air pavilion seen at the left side of this photograph was built in New Orleans' City Park in 1907 to host parties, dances and weddings. It was designed by architect Paul Andry.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 233
  Caption: "City Park Scene - New Orleans," c. 1925. Peaceful scene in New Orleans' City Park, with an ivy-covered pedestrian bridge over the rippling waters of a pond or stream. A small building is mostly obscured by trees at the left side of the photograph.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 232
  Caption: "Carondelet St. - New Orleans," c. 1925. A bustling street scene in New Orleans.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 231
  Caption: "St. Louis Cathedral Built in 1794 by Don Andreas Almonastry Roxas - Jacksen[sic] Park - New Orleans." St. Louis Cathedral anchors one end of Jackson Square in New Orleans' French Quarter. The structure of the cathedral largely dates to the 1850 restoration and expansion of an older cathedral built on the site in 1793. Very little of the older church survived, although the central bell tower (added on to the older church in 1819) was reused in the new structure and is still extant today. A statue of Andrew Jackson mounted on a rearing horse (Clark Mills, sculptor) stands in the square in front of the cathedral. The sculpture was erected in 1856. See also 96-07-08-alb11-052.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 230
  Caption: "Unknown Soldiers Grave - Arlington Cemetry[sic]," c. 1925. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, also called the Tomb of the Unknowns, memorializes those U.S. military service members who died without their remains being later identified. The remains of the first Unknown Soldier, stemming from World War I and disinterred from a cemetery in France, were laid to rest in the tomb in 1921.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 229
  Caption: "Arlington Cemetry [sic] Memorial," c. 1925. Shows an interior view of Arlington Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery, dedicated in 1920.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 228
  Caption: "Lincoln Memorial," c. 1925. Grace McCarthy (far left) poses with two unidentified women in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The memorial's outer structure, styled after a Greek Doric temple, was designed by architect Henry Bacon, while the statue of Abraham Lincoln (only the knee of which is visible in this photograph) within was designed by Daniel Chester French. The memorial was dedicated in 1922.