Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 084
  No caption. William McCarthy and an unidentified women on horseback at an unidentified location, c. 1910.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 083
  No caption. Two unidentified boys standing in front of a corn field, c. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 082
  No caption. Unidentified boy standing on a porch, at an unidentified location, c. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 081
  No caption. Unidentified people, one in costume with a painted-on mustache and goatee, c. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 080
  Caption: "Young Hostler, Harrold," c. 1906, with two horses on the McCarthy property in Watsonville.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 079
  Caption: "Parlor interior at home," c. 1905. A view of the parlor at the McCarthy family residence in Watsonville, with a piano in foreground and framed portraits and landscapes adorning the walls.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 078
  Caption: "Harrold and Buff," c. 1906. A young child with a dog is seen standing near a fence at the McCarthy home in Watsonville.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 077
  Caption: "Watsonville High School, construction," c. 1903. A view of the Watsonville High School under construction, featuring Spanish style design elements.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 076
  Caption: "Notre Dame, Watsonville," c. 1900. Moreland Notre Dame Academy was founded by Margaret S. Moreland in memory of her beloved daughter Josephine, who died at eighteen years of age. The catholic school opened in 1899.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 075
  Caption: "Palace Hotel Court," c. 1906. (Handwritten on photograph: "copyright 1906 by W.E Worden."). The Palace Hotel was originally built in 1875, rebuilt in 1909, and was one of the first premier luxury hotels in San Francisco.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 074a
  Caption: "The California," (Richard. Outcault, illustrator). A photograph of a drawing of a dog and a turkey by American cartoonist Richard F. Outcault. The drawing is captioned "The California," is mounted next to the photograph of the USS California (96-07-08-alb06-073), and is likely meant to refernce that ship in some fashion.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 074
  Caption: "The California," c. 1906. This photograph shows the second U.S. Navy ship to bear the Golden State's name. Launched in 1904 and commissioned in 1907, this Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser served in the Pacific fleet. Her name was changed in 1914 to the USS San Diego, in order to free up the name for a new, Tennessee-class battleship. The USS San Diego went on to serve in both the Pacific and Atlantic fleets during World War I, until being sunk off the coast of New York by a German mine in 1918, with a loss of six lives. See also 96-07-08-alb05-009.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 073
  Caption: "Trestle over Pajaro River, Watsonville." c. 1910.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 072
  Caption: "College Lake, Watsonville," c. 1906, is an intermittent or seasonal lake, which was known at one time as Laguna Grande, and became known as College Lake sometime after 1869.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 071
  Caption: "Pajaro River at Chittenden Trestle," c. 1906. A view of the Pajaro River, with the Chittenden Trestle seen in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 070
  No Caption. View of the McCarthy family home in Watsonville, c. 1905.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 069
  Caption: "N.S.G.W. Delegates to Grand Lodge, Santa Barbara." Founded in 1875, the Native Sons of the Golden West is a fraternal society limited to native-born Californians.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 068
  Caption: "Old Mission, Santa Barbara," c. 1906. View of Mission Santa Barbara, established by Spanish Franciscan monks in 1786.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 067
  Caption: "Mechanics of Hendy Machine Works, 1894." The Joshua Hendy Machine Works operated in San Francisco until the facilities were destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. The company relocated to Sunnyvale, California, after the local government there enticed them with free land. William McCarthy can be seen standing (sixth from left) in the second from back row.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 066
  Caption: "Prof. C.F. Graber's Mandolin Club," c. 1905. Pictured is a large group of mandolin players entertaining an audience. William McCarthy can be seen seated in the second row (fifth from left, with mustache).
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 065
  Caption: "Tunnel Entrance to Music Stand, G.G. Park," c. 1906. One of three pedestrian tunnels leading to the music concourse in Golden Gate Park.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 064
  Caption: "Stow Lake, G.G. Park," c. 1906. A man-made lake created in 1893 as part of Golden Gate Park. The lake surrounds Strawberry Hill Island, seen in the center of this photograph. Visitors still enjoy Stow Lake today, engaging in activities such as boating and picnicking.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 063
  No caption: Grace McCarthy (right) and an unidentified women, likely her sister, sitting in a parlor at an unidentified location, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 062
  Caption: "Japanese Garden. Golden Gate Park," c. 1910. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, the still existing Japanese Tea Garden is now the oldest public Japanese garden in the United States.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 061
  Caption: "The Park Music Stand," c.1906. Façade of the Golden Gate Park Bandstand, which shows some damage, possibly from the 1906 earthquake.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 060
  Caption: "The Chutes, S.F," c. 1905. View of the Fulton Street Chutes, a 350-foot water slide. Boats or toboggans careened down the slide into a man-made lake at the bottom. Such "chutes" were very popular throughout the U.S. and Europe at the turn of the century. The Fulton Street Chutes operated from 1902-1907 as part of an amusement park area that also featured the "Circle Swing Flying Machine" (also visible in the photograph), a theater, bar, merry-go-round, and a zoo.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 059
  Caption: "Palace Hotel Court," c. 1906. (Handwritten on photograph: "copyright 1906 by W._ Wod_n."). The Palace Hotel was originally built in 1875, rebuilt in 1909, and was one of the first premier luxury hotels in San Francisco.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 058
  Caption: "Union Square & Dewey Monument," c. 1908. St. Francis Hotel at Union Square, with the Dewey Monument in the foreground (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), which commemorated U.S. Admiral George Dewey's naval victory at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American War of 1898. The luxury hotel opened in 1904, and, fortunately, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. It was expanded in 1913, and 1972, making it one of the largest hotels in the city.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 057
  Caption: Market Street, Call, Chronicle, Palace, Grand, & Crocker Buildings," c. 1906, shows a bustling scene of tall buildings, people, horses and buggies, and a trolley on Market Street.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 056
  Caption: "Market Street, Knights of Honor Parade," the Knights of Honor were a fraternal and secret society in the United States during the 19th and early 20th century. A Knights of Honor Grand Lodge was established in San Francisco in 1880, and at one time twenty subordinate lodges existed.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 055
  Caption: "The Cliff House," c. 1906, shows several people on Ocean Beach with the third Cliff House that was built on that site in the distance, which burned down in 1907.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 054
  No Caption. Group photograph of eleven unidentified individuals, likely friends and family of the McCarthys, and William McCarthy (fifth from left in checkered suit) sitting at the base of a large oak tree, at an unidentified location, c. 1908.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 053
  No Caption. Group photograph of twelve unidentified individuals, and a small dog, likely friends and family of the McCarthys, posing at the base of a large oak tree at an unidentified location, c. 1908.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 052
  No Caption: Group photograph of twelve unidentified individuals, likely friends and family of the McCarthys, posing on the branches of a tree at an unidentified location, c. 1908.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 051
  Caption: "Park Music Stand, "c. 1908. A view of the bandstand at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 050
  Caption: "Rose-Bush at Home," c. 1908, shows a large, climbing rose bush in front of the McCarthy's Watsonville home.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 049
  Caption: "Landslide, Brookdale Farm, Pajaro," c. 1908, shows trees and debris left scattered from a landslide.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 048
  Caption: "Trestle in Northern California," c. 1906, shows a railroad trestle nestled among trees and hills.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 047
  Caption: "On The Sacramento River. View from end of train," c. 1906, shows a train traveling along the Sacramento River in northern California.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 046
  No Caption: A smiling William McCarthy standing before a high fence at an unidentified location, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 045
  No Caption: An unidentified man standing in front of a house at an unidentified location, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 044
  No Caption: Grace and William McCarthy sitting together at an unidentified location, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 043
  No Caption: Grace McCarthy standing in front of a door at an unidentified location, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 042
  No Caption: Grace McCarthy (front) and three unidentified women posing for the camera at an unidentified location, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 041
  No Caption: Grace McCarthy (left) and unidentified woman, posing with a rose, at an unidentified location, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 040
  No Caption: Grace McCarthy sitting in a horse-drawn buggy next to an apple tree, likely on the McCarthy property in Watsonville, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 039
  Caption: "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree," shows William McCarthy sitting in a horse-drawn buggy next to an apple tree, likely on the McCarthy property in Watsonville, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 038
  No caption. Grace McCarthy siting in a horse-drawn buggy in front of the McCarthy home in Watsonville, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 037
  No caption. Grace McCarthy siting in a horse-drawn buggy in front of the McCarthy home in Watsonville, c. 1906.
• McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 036
  No caption. The façade of an Italianate building that appears to be of mixed residential and commercial use in San Francisco. The sign on the building reads "The Kinriu Co. Wholesale Baskets and Matting Import Silk & Tea," c. 1906.