Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 181.0
  Caption: "Tamalpais Views," is a label for photographs 179 - 184 in album 6, showing a variety of views of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 180
  Caption: "Tamalpais R.R." c. 1907. A view of the Muir Woods Railway, established in 1896 as a scenic tourist railway between Mill Valley and the east peak of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 179
  Caption: "Tamalpais Tavern," c. 1907. The Tamalpais Tavern opened in 1896 on top of Mount Tamalpais and quickly became a popular destination for Bay Area residents who rode the Muir Woods Railway up and down the mountain. A fire destroyed the tavern in 1923 and a smaller, more modest building was erected in 1924 but closed at the start of World War II.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 178
  Caption: "San Francisco April 17, 1906. Center of Town." A bird's eye view of the city the day before the earthquake and fires.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 177
  Caption: "Seattle Times, Copy." Photograph of The Seattle Daily Times front page and photographs of the San Francisco earthquake's aftermath with headline: "City Wiped Out! Fire Still Raging!" Dated April 20, 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 176
  Caption: "Santa Fe Trestle. Martinez, "c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 175
  Caption: "Sutro Baths Interior," c. 1910. Interior shot of the Sutro Baths, north of the Cliff House. Designed by Adolph Sutro in 1894, the bathhouses at one time covered three oceanfront acres just north of Ocean Beach and the Cliff House. Eventually the Sutro Baths fell into disrepair and what was left of them burned down in 1966. Since 1973, the concrete ruins have been part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. See also 96-07-08-alb02-023, and 96-07-08-alb03-117.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 174
  Caption: "City Hall Ruins." An expanded view of the destroyed City Hall after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Stacks and piles of bricks are lined up at the curb of the street, likely to be used for reconstruction.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 173
  No Caption: Caption in photograph album (172.0): "City Hall Tower Before and after the Quake." 1906. A view of San Francisco City Hall after the April 18, 1906 earthquake shows the devastation to the structure.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 172
  No caption. Caption in photograph album (172.0): "City Hall Tower Before and after the Quake." 1906. A view of San Francisco City Hall before the April 18, 1906 earthquake.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 172.0
  Label in photograph album for photographs 172 and 173: "City Hall Tower Before and after the Quake."
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 171
  Caption: "After the Fire," shows the remains of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fires. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 170
  Caption: "San Francisco April 18 1906." A view of the city of San Francisco ablaze after the 1906 earthquake. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 169
  Caption: "Market Street, Flood Building Unhurt, Emporium Damaged." Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 168
  Caption: "Mission Street After the Quake," 1906. A view of the severe damage to Mission Street after the earthquake. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 167
  Caption: The Awful Fire After the Shake," 1906. A view of San Francisco ablaze after the 1906 earthquake. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 166
  Caption: "Market Street Burning." A view of the Call Building on Market and 3rd Streets on fire after the 1906 earthquake, with people and horses in the foreground. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 165
  No Caption: Inscribed on the photograph: "An "Old Settler" Pt. Bonita, California." A view of a large cannon on a carriage.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 164
  Caption: "Portola Celebration." 1909. The Portola Festival was a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 163
  No Caption: A view of the large crowds surrounding an enormous United States flag and the Spanish-American War Memorial (Douglas Tildon, sculptor) at the Portola Festival of 1909. The Portola Festival was a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 162
  Caption: "Don Gasper [sic] de Portola and Queen," 1909. Participants at the Portola Festival on horseback and dressed in period costume as Don Gaspar De Portola and Queen. The Portola Festival was a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 161
  No Caption: A scene from the 1909 Portola Festival, a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 160
  Caption: "Portola Celebration,"1909. The Portola Festival of 1909 was a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 159
  No Caption: The photograph has a hand-written inscription stating: "Portola Electric Bell Copyright 1909 Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 800." Installed on the intersection of Third and Market Streets in San Francisco, the Portola Electric Bell contained two thousand bulbs and rose 125 feet above the street. It was part of the Portola Festival of 1909, a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 158
  Caption: "The Chicago," a two stack steam ship plying the waters of an unidentified location.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 157
  Caption: "Street Scene, Los Angeles," c. 1908. A view of an early twentieth street scene in Los Angeles, with horse-drawn vehicles, trolley cars, and numerous buildings.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 156
  Caption: "Santa Fe Depot, San Diego," c. 1908. Built in 1887 for the California Southern Railroad Company, the small depot station was later demolished to make way for a much larger station, which opened in 1915.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 155
  Caption: "Santa Fe Depot, Los Angeles," c. 1910. The La Grande Station opened in 1893 and served as the main passenger terminal for the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe). The building, with its Moorish inspired architecture, was heavily damaged by the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and was eventually demolished in 1946.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 154
  Caption: "Russian River - Healdsburg," c. 1914. William and Grace McCarthy are seen rowing a boat on the Russian River.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 153
  Caption: "City Hall - Healdsburg," c. 1910. The Healdsburg City Hall was built in 1886 and demolished in 1960.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 152
  Caption: "Sausalito," c. 1908. A view of the town of Sausalito with ships in Richardson Bay.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 151
  Caption: "Tannery Ruins, Benicia," c. 1905, shows the destroyed building of the Benicia Tannery.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 150
  Caption: "Ordnance Machine Shops, Benicia," c. 1905. A view of the Benicia Arsenal's Machine Shops.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 149
  Caption: "Ordnance Mechanics," c. 1905. William McCarthy (center) stands before equipment with several unidentified mechanics at the Benicia Arsenal.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 148
  Caption: "Ordnance Corps," c. 1905. A group photograph of the Ordnance Corps at the Benicia Arsenal. The broad mission of the Ordnance Corps was to supply combat weapons and ammunition to U.S. Army forces on the west coast of the United States.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 147
  Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Gardener," c.1905, shows the gardner of the Benicia Arsenal carrying two large watering cans near an unidentified structure.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 146
  Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Store House," c. 1905. The Benicia Arsenal Store House, also known as the Clocktower building, was erected in 1859 at three stories high. In 1912, an explosion and fire caused extensive damage, after which it was rebuilt as a two-story structure.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 145
  Caption: "United States Field Piece," shows a piece of artillery on a carriage at the Benicia Arsenal.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 144
  Caption: "Benicia Arsenal," c. 1905. Overview shot of the Benicia Arsenal. 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.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 143
  No Caption. A view of the Benicia Arsenal, with the store house in the distance. 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. Benicia Arsenal store house in the distance, c. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 142
  Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Avenue," c. 1905, Benicia, California. 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.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 141
  Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Gate," c. 1905, Benicia, California. 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.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 140
  Caption: "Ferryboat Solano," c. 1906. The Solano was a large railroad ferry that operated across the Carquinez Straight between Benicia and Port Costa in California.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 139
  Caption: "Benicia Wharf Disaster," c. 1906, shows a collapsed building on the Benicia wharf, likely due to the April 1906 earthquake that devastated the city of San Francisco.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 138
  Caption: "Green Valley Falls Picnic," c. 1908, shows an unidentified group of people riding in horse-drawn carriages in front of the Benicia Brewery building.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 137
  Caption: "Green Valley Falls Picnic," c. 1908. A large group of unidentified people pose for a photograph at Green Valley Falls near Benicia in Solano County.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 136
  Caption: "Green Valley Falls Picnic, "c. 1908. A large group of unidentified people pose for a photograph at Green Valley Falls near Benicia, in Solano County.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 135
  No caption. Unidentified woman standing in front of a palm at an unidentified location, c. 1908.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 134
  Caption: "Pinole Baseball Team," c. 1908.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 133
  Caption: "Elcampo [sic] Grove." c. 1908. William McCarthy sitting with two unidentified woman at El Campo Grove in Marin County.