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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 017
    Caption: "Presidio Nursery," c. 1906, shows the gardens at the Presidio, with blooming flowers planted to spell "PRESIDIO."
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 016
    Caption: "Market St. S.F. Calif." See also 96-07-08-alb05-136, with caption: "Market St. Sept 9. 1910 S.F." Market Street in San Francisco, decked with bunting and flags for California's Admissions Day, the anniversary of the Golden State's entry as a state in the U.S.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 015
    Caption: "Casino-Santa Cruz Calif.," c. 1910. View of beach and casino building in Santa Cruz. The casino, designed by William Weeks, was constructed in 1907, replacing a previous casino building that burned down in 1906.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 014
    Caption: "Guard mount of the 2nd Squadron, 8th Cavalry, at Fort Huachuca, Aug -- Taken from life, McNally, 1909." A photograph of a drawing of seven men of the 2nd Squadron, 8th Cavalry at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, apparently conducting military maneuvers.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 013
    Caption: "Presidio Main Avenue," c. 1906, shows a tree lined dirt road in the Presidio. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 012
    Caption: "The Alameda of Presidio," c. 1906, shows the entryway to the Presidio, lined with cannonballs. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 011
    Caption: "Lancaster Battery, Presidio," c. 1906, shows a distant view of Lancaster Battery. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 010
    Caption: "Presidio and Golden Gate," c. 1906, shows many Presidio buildings pictured in the foreground, with ships in the bay. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 009
    Caption: "Fort Point and Golden Gate," c. 1906. Fort Point in the foreground, with ships in the bay. Fort Point was part of an effort by the U.S. government to protect the Golden Gate, entrance to the San Francisco Bay. Built between 1853-1861 of brick and mortar, the fort included emplacements for 141 guns but never fired a weapon in defense of the Bay.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 008
    Caption: "San Francisco April 17, 1906. Center of Town," shows a view of the center of San Francisco from a high vantage point, taken on April 17, 1906, the day before the 1906 earthquake and fires devastated the city.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 007
    Caption: "San Francisco in 1849. Center of Town." A photograph of a drawing or painting of early San Francisco by an unidentified artist.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 006
    Caption: "Main Street, Watsonville," c. 1906. A view of a sparsely populated Main Street, with buggies and people in the distance.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 005
    Caption: "The McCarthy Home, Watsonville, Cal," c. 1906. A view of the façade of the crossed-gabled McCarthy home, with large front porch and lush vegetation.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 004
    No caption. Photograph of a forest in the foreground and a granite mountain in the distance, at an unidentified location.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 003
    No caption. Photograph of a waterfall in a mountainous, unidentified location.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 002
    No caption, c. 1910. Portrait photograph of William McCarthy.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 001a
    Caption: "Fotos in San Francisco and Neighboring County's [sic] By Wm. McCarthy." A handwritten label mounted on the first page of the photograph album.
  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 001
    No caption, c. 1890. Photograph portrait of William McCarthy as a young boy.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 268
    No Caption: undated. Photograph shows what appears to be part of the carriage of a heavy coastal artillery gun.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 267
    No Caption: undated. Photograph shows the base of what appears to be a 12" mortar, and part of its carriage.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 266
    Caption: "The Arrival of the Atlantic Fleet at the Golden Gate -- May 6, 1908. San Francisco, California." and "Copyright 1908, Chas. Weidner, S.F." This photograph, by Charles Weidner, shows the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet, consisting of sixteen battle cruisers and various support vessels, steaming toward the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay. President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the Atlantic Fleet (later called the "Great White Fleet" because the ships were painted white with gold trim) on a tour around the world, beginning in December 1907, to show American goodwill and also demonstrate the power of the U.S. Navy. The Fleet reached the Golden Gate, entrance to San Francisco Bay, on May 6, 1908.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 265
    No Caption: undated. Photograph shows what appears to be a 12" disappearing coastal artillery gun, mounted on a rotating carriage.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 264
    No Caption: c. 1905. Military barracks with two rows of beds, several of which are occupied by unidentified men in uniforms. Other unidentified, uniformed men sit or stand around the beds.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 263
    No Caption: c. 1910. View of rows of tents and sheds thatched in palm fronds along the coast near Coronado Hotel, with people strolling along the roadways. Established in 1900 for travelers who could not afford to stay in the resort hotel, the Coronado Tent City consisted of a grid of streets lined with furnished tents, near the sea shore. It also featured restaurants, a library, soda fountain, theater, bandstand, and other recreational facilities. See also 96-07-08-alb05-202 and 96-07-08-alb08-210.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 262
    Caption: "Mexican Hut, Carlsbad, N. M.," c. 1905. Shack made out of wood boards and miscellaneous other items, with an unidentified man, possibly of Hispanic ethnicity, standing in front.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 261
    Caption: "Hagerman Avenue, Eddy, N. M.," c. 1905. view of a country road lined with bushes or trees, in Eddy County, New Mexico. An unidentified woman stands in the center of the photograph in the middle distance.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 260
    Caption: "UP A TREE,," c. 1905. William McCarthy (center) posing with several unidentified friends and/or family members in a small patio or treehouse.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 259
    Caption: "Sidestepping the Bull." In this photograph, a bull attempts to gore a matador holding a cape, observed by dozens of people in the surrounding stands.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 258
    Caption: "Placing the Bandarillias [sic]." Two images pasted into the photograph album next to each other, both showing bulls in a bullring. In both photographs, banderilleros are attempting to place banderillas (short barbed sticks) in each bull's shoulders.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 257
    Caption: "Bull Fight, Tiajuana [sic], Mexico." Image is dominated by bull in foreground, with several banderillas (short, barbed sticks) in place on his shoulders. Spectators watch from a ring of seats. A paper image of an unidentified matador is also placed in the album at this location.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 256
    Caption: "Tally Ho Ride, San Diego.," c. 1905. Group of unidentified people in a horse-drawn wagon, with fringed cover. The wagon has "Kelly's Tally-Ho, Cor. 3rd & F Sts." written on one corner.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 255
    Caption: "U. S. 12" Mortar Dismounted." View of the barrel of a 12-inch mortar, dismounted from its carriage and set upon a tower made of lumber.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 254
    Caption: "U. S. 12" Mortars." View of three 12-inch mortars in firing position behind an earth and concrete embankment. Caps cover the barrel openings.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 253
    Caption: "BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF SAN DIEGO," c. 1905. Residences dominate the front portion of this bird's eye view photograph of San Diego, with the harbor in the distance.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 252
    Caption: "Mexican Custom House and Officer.," c. 1905. William McCarthy (far right) standing in front of a customs house in Mexico, with two other unidentified men. One of the men appears to be of Hispanic ethnicity, and is likely the "Officer" mentioned in the caption.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 251
    No Caption: undated. View of train tracks, carried on a levee or jetty, disappearing into the distance, with water on either side.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 250
    No Caption: c. 1906. Grace McCarthy posing with an unidentified woman, possibly at a photography studio.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 249
    Caption: "Reveille." Image of a man firing a cannon on a carriage. Given the buildings in the background, this photograph could have been taken at Fort Casey in Washington.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 248
    Caption: "Smashing the Target." and "(8) June 19 -- [illegible]." Image of a plume of water presumably caused by an artillery shell during target practice on an ocean or lake. The date is illegible (mostly cut off).
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 247
    No Caption: c. 1906. Grace McCarthy posing with an unidentified woman, possibly at a photography studio.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 246
    No Caption: undated. View of a heavy artillery coastal defense gun and its carriage. The carriage may be damaged, or in the midst of being constructed.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 245
    No Caption: undated. View of two heavy artillery coastal defense guns.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 244
    Caption: "Twelve Inch Guns," undated. View of the barrel of a 12-inch heavy artillery gun.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 243
    No Caption: undated. View of a locomotive pulling a passenger train in an unidentified location.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 242
    Caption: "In Tiajuana [sic], Mexico.," c. 1905. Street scene in Tijuana, showing several buildings with false fronts along a dirt road.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 241
    No Caption: Photograph shows a female bullfighter dodging a bull in a bullring, in Tijuana, Mexico.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 240
    No Caption: Photograph shows five female bullfighters entering a bullring in Tijuana, Mexico. A ticket is pasted in the album above and slightly on top of the photograph, reading "Plaza De Toros, Tijuana, Lady Bullfighters, Sunday Sep 17 1905, $2.00, Good for One Admission."
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 239
    Caption: "Fort Point," c. 1910. This postcard shows a view of Fort Point, at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. The facilities at Fort Point were part of an effort by the U.S. government to protect the Golden Gate, entrance to the San Francisco Bay. Built between 1853-1861, the fort included emplacements for 141 guns but never fired a weapon in defense of the Bay. Its name was officially changed in 1882 to Fort Winfield Scott, but in 1886 the fort was officially downgraded to a sub-post of the San Francisco Presidio and the name discontinued. It was resurrected in 1912, with the establishment of a coastal artillery fortification at the Presidio, called, once again, Fort Winfield Scott.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 238
    Caption: "Fort Point -- Interior," c. 1910. Postcard showing a view of an interior hall or walkway featuring several arches at Fort Point. The facilities at Fort Point were part of an effort by the U.S. government to protect the Golden Gate, entrance to the San Francisco Bay. Built between 1853-1861, the fort included emplacements for 141 guns but never fired a weapon in defense of the Bay. Its name was officially changed in 1882 to Fort Winfield Scott, but in 1886 the fort was officially downgraded to a sub-post of the San Francisco Presidio and the name discontinued. It was resurrected in 1912, with the establishment of a coastal artillery fortification at the Presidio, called, once again, Fort Winfield Scott.
  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 237
    Caption: "Squaw in Jail, Tiajuana [sic], Mexico.," c. 1910. View of a jail in Tijuana, Mexico. An elderly woman is seated behind the bars of one of the windows.