Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 055
  Caption: "Mammoth Hot Springs Resort," c. 1923. Grace McCarthy poses in front of Mammoth Hot Springs Resort. Originally called the National Hotel, the building opened for business in 1883. It underwent significant alterations and renovations between 1911 and 1913, by which time the resort was known as the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel. The hotel was torn down in 1936 in favor of a more modern facility.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 054
  Caption: "Devil's Kitchen," c. 1923. This photograph shows several people descending into and standing around the entry to Devil's Kitchen, an extinct hot spring that left behind a cavern. Once a popular tourist attraction for its small opening that made visitors feel as if they were descending into the underworld, the site was closed in 1939 because the cavern periodically fills with dangerous levels of carbon dioxide.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 053
  Caption: "Gibbons Falls," c. 1923. Yellowstone National Park's Gibbon Falls is located on the Gibbon River. The falls drop roughly eighty-four feet in a gradual descent.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 052
  Caption: "Yellowstone - Grand Canyon," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The Yellowstone River can be glimpsed at the bottom of the Canyon near the center of the photograph. The Canyon is approximately 24 miles long, and between 800 and 1,200 feet deep.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 051
  Caption: "Yellowstone - Grand Canyon," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of a portion of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The 308-foot tall cascade of Lower Yellowstone Falls can be seen at the top of the photograph, flowing into the Canyon. The Canyon is approximately 24 miles long, and between 800 and 1,200 feet deep.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 050
  Caption: "Orange Hot Spring - Yellowstone, " c. 1923. View of Yellowstone's Orange Spring Mound, part of the complex of thermal features at the Mammoth Hot Springs.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 049
  Caption: "Dragons Mouth - Yellowstone Park," c. 1923. This hot spring originates deep underground. Rising gas and steam create pressure bubbles within the mud of the cavern. When they burst against the cave roof, they emit a growling, booming sound. Steam also drifts from the cavern entrance, creating the illusion of smoke from a dragon's mouth.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 048
  Caption: "Yellowstone Grand Canyon," c. 1923. One wall of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone can be seen in this photograph, viewed from the opposite rim of the Canyon. The Canyon is approximately 24 miles long, and between 800 and 1,200 feet deep.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 047
  Caption: " Grand Canyon - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The 308-foot tall cascade of Lower Yellowstone Falls can be seen at the top of the photograph, flowing into the Canyon. The Canyon is approximately 24 miles long, and between 800 and 1,200 feet deep.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 046
  Caption: "Rainbow in the Mist of Lower Falls," c. 1923. A rainbow over Lower Yellowstone Falls appears as an arch of mist in this black-and-white photograph.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 045
  No caption. c. 1923. As the Yellowstone River flows north from Yellowstone Lake it passes over two waterfalls (Upper and Lower Yellowstone Falls) before reaching the Yellowstone Grand Canyon. This photograph shows the Upper Yellowstone Falls, 109 feet in height, as seen from a nearby peak. One arch of the Chittenden Bridge can be seen crossing the Yellowstone River upstream of the falls (in the upper center of the photograph). Built in 1903, this Melan arch bridge stood until the 1960s, when it was torn down in favor of a new, more modern structure.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 044
  Caption: "Lower Falls - Yellowstone," c. 1923. This photograph features the massive Lower Yellowstone Falls, as seen from the falls' base. A group of unidentified people standing to one side provides some sense of scale. As the Yellowstone River flows north from Yellowstone Lake it passes over two waterfalls (Upper and Lower Yellowstone Falls) before reaching the Yellowstone Grand Canyon. The 308-foot Lower Yellowstone Falls carries more water volume than any other waterfall in the Rocky Mountains.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 043
  Caption: "Lower Falls - Yellowstone Grand Canyon," c. 1923. As the Yellowstone River flows north from Yellowstone Lake it passes over two waterfalls (Upper and Lower Yellowstone Falls) before reaching the Yellowstone Grand Canyon. This photograph shows the 308-foot Lower Yellowstone Falls, as seen from a nearby mountain top or bluff. It carries more water volume than any other waterfall in the Rocky Mountains.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 042
  Caption: "Bear Decending [sic] a Tree," c. 1923. The bear in 96-07-08-alb09-041 is seen beginning his descent from the tree in this photograph.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 041
  Caption: "A Native of Yellowstone Park," c. 1923. A bear climbing a tree in Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 040a
  No caption. This colorful decal advertises "Yellowstone Park Camps, The Popular Service." Three people lounge in camp chairs in front of a small cabin.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 040
  Caption: "Feeding the Wood Chucks [sic]- Yellowstone," c. 1923. William McCarthy crouches down to feed an eager groundhog balancing on his hind legs in this photograph.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 039
  Caption: "Grand Canyon Camp - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Grace McCarthy stands to one side of a large group of unidentified people under an outdoor pavilion in a camp ground near the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 038
  Caption: "Liberty Cap Rock - Mammoth Hot Springs," c. 1923. Liberty Cap Rock, a 40-foot tall dormant hot spring cone, is located in the Mammoth Hot Springs area of Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 037
  Caption: "In the Debths [sic] of Yellowstone Canyon," c. 1923. The Yellowstone River tumbles its way through the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in this photograph, taken at river-level.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 036
  Caption: "Yellowstone Grand Canyon," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of the Yellowstone River flowing through the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 035
  Caption: "Yellowstone Grand Canyon," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The 308-foot tall cascade of Lower Yellowstone Falls of the Yellowstone River can be seen at the top of the photograph, flowing into the Canyon. The Canyon is approximately 24 miles long, and between 800 and 1,200 feet deep.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 034
  Caption: "Lower Falls," c. 1923. As the Yellowstone River flows north from Yellowstone Lake it passes over two waterfalls (Upper and Lower Yellowstone Falls) before reaching the Yellowstone Grand Canyon. This photograph shows the 308-foot Lower Yellowstone Falls. It carries more water volume than any other waterfall in the Rocky Mountains.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 033
  Caption: "Lower Falls," c. 1923. As the Yellowstone River flows north from Yellowstone Lake it passes over two waterfalls (Upper and Lower Yellowstone Falls) before reaching the Yellowstone Grand Canyon. This photograph shows the 308-foot Lower Yellowstone Falls, as viewed from the base of the falls. It carries more water volume than any other waterfall in the Rocky Mountains.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 032
  Caption: "Lower Falls - Yellowstone Grand Canyon," c. 1923. As the Yellowstone River flows north from Yellowstone Lake it passes over two waterfalls (Upper and Lower Yellowstone Falls) before reaching the Yellowstone Grand Canyon. This photograph shows the 308-foot Lower Yellowstone Falls. It carries more water volume than any other waterfall in the Rocky Mountains.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 031
  Caption: "Cascades - Yellowstone," c. 1923. View of Kepler Cascades, a waterfall on the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 030
  Caption: "Tower Falls [sic] - Yellowstone Park," c. 1923. Tower Fall is a 132' waterfall, located on Tower Creek in the northeastern region of Yellowstone National Park. Its name derives from several pinnacles of rock at the head of the fall.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 029
  Caption: "Old Faithful Geyser," c. 1923. Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful Geyser at mid-eruption.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 028
  Caption: "Paint Pots - Yellowstone," c. 1923. View of bubbling pools of mud known as mudpots or "paint pots" at Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 027
  Caption: "Paint Pots or Boiling Clay - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Several unidentified park-goers view bubbling pools of mud known as mudpots or "paint pots" at Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 026
  Caption: "Burning Pool - Yellowstone Park," c. 1923. An unidentified group of people walk past Burning Pool at Yellowstone National Park, a thermally active spring in the park's Upper Basin.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 025
  Caption: "Emerald Pool Yellowstone," c. 1923. Grace McCarthy (fourth from the right) and several unidentified people admire Emerald Pool in Yellowstone National Park. The pool, sometimes called Emerald Spring, is located in the park's Black Sand Basin. Yellow sulphur deposits, combined with the blue of the water, give the pool a vivid green color.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 024
  Caption: "Sunset Lake - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Yellowstone National Park's Sunset Lake is a shallow thermal pool in the Black Sand Basin. Its name is derived from the yellow and orange bands of bacteria and algae at its edges.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 023
  Caption: "Tea Kettle - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Teakettle Spring is a thermally active site in Yellowstone National Park's Upper Geyser Basin.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 022
  Caption: "Rocket Geyser," c. 1923. The Rocket Geyser in Yellowstone National Park is part of the Grotto Geyser group, along with Grotto Fountain Geyser (which can also be seen at the right in this photograph), South Grotto Fountain Geyser, Indicator Spring, and Spa Geyser.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 021
  Caption: "Constant Geyser," c. 1923. Three unidentified people circle Constant Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, so named for its frequent eruptions.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 020
  Caption: "Bear & Cub - In Yellowstone," c. 1923. A bear and her cub cross a road or trail in Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 019
  Caption: "Feeding a Bear - Yellowstone," c. 1923. William McCarthy feeding a bear at Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 018
  Caption: "Castle Geyser - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Castle Geyser erupting in Yellowstone National Park. The geyser's name refers to the shape of the cone around the vent.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 017
  Caption: "Old Faithful Geyser After Eruption - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Grace McCarthy stands behind the vent of Old Faithful, a cone geyser at Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 016
  Caption: "Saltair Pavilion - Great Salt Lake," c.1923. Interior of the Saltair Pavilion on Utah's Great Salt Lake. Constructed in 1893 and designed by Richard K.A. Kletting, the Saltair resort set out to be the Western counterpart of Coney Island. The resort was a popular spot for Mormon families, only fifteen miles from Salt Lake City and overseen by Church leaders. The Church sold the building in 1906. It was later destroyed by fire in 1925, but a second pavilion was quickly built.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 015
  Caption: "Salt Air - Great Salt Lake," c.1923. Grace McCarthy poses in front of the Saltair resort complex on Utah's Great Salt Lake. Constructed in 1893 and designed by Richard K.A. Kletting, the Saltair set out to be the Western counterpart of Coney Island. The resort was a popular spot for Mormon families, only fifteen miles from Salt Lake City and overseen by Church leaders. The Church sold the building in 1906. It was later destroyed by fire in 1925, but a second pavilion was quickly built.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 014
  Caption: "Yellowstone Transportation Bus," c. 1923. William and Grace McCarthy (second row from the back, middle and right-hand seats) and a group of unidentified people stop for a photograph while sitting in an eleven-passenger, open-roofed touring bus in Yellowstone National Park. The touring bus, likely made by White Motor Company, was one of a fleet of such vehicles maintained by the Yellowstone Park Transportation Company.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 013
  Caption: "Old Faithful Inn - Yellowstone," c. 1923. View of the massive Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park. Designed by Robert C. Reamer and completed in 1904, the hotel is one of the largest log buildings in the world.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 012
  Caption: "Main Street Ogden," c. 1923. Street scene in Ogden, showing a broad roadway used by pedestrians and automobiles, flanked by trees on the left and businesses on the right.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 011
  Caption: "S.P. Track - Crossing Great Salt Lake.," c. 1923. The Southern Pacific Railroad constructed the trestle shown in this photograph, known as the Lucin Cutoff, between 1902 to 1904. It crosses the Great Salt Lake, between Ogden and Lucin. The trestle was replaced by a causeway of dirt and rock in the 1950s.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 010
  Caption: "Interior Utah State Capitol," c. 1923. This photograph shows part of the main corridor of Utah's State Capitol Building, featuring an equestrian statue of Chief Washakie, leader of the eastern Shoshone (artist unknown). Visible above the entrance to the chambers of the House of Representatives is a mural painted by Gerard Hale and Gilbert White entitled Reclaiming the Desert for Irrigation.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 009
  Caption: "Utah State Capitol. Salt Lake City." c. 1923. View of Utah's State Capitol Building, designed by Richard K.A. Kletting and built between 1912 and 1916.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 008
  Caption: "State Capitol - Calif, " c. 1920. View of the California State Capitol Building. Much of the building is obscured by trees, but the dome is visible. Designed by M.F. Butler, California's State Capitol Building experienced significant delays while under construction. Crews broke ground on December 4, 1856, but the Legislature did not occupy the building until 1869, and the building was not fully completed until 1874.
• McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 007
  Caption: "Market Street S.F," c. 1935. A bustling Market Street scene with many people, cars and trollies. San Francisco's Ferry Building can be seen in the distance at the far right.