Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 310
  No caption, c. 1915. Several unidentified people posing in two automobiles in front of a residence in Concord, California.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 309
  Caption: "Blue Rock Springs -- Solano Co.," c. 1915. Grace McCarthy (far left) and two unidentified friends or relatives at what is now known as Blue Rock Springs. In the 1860s, White Sulphur Springs (in the vicinity of Vallejo) was developed for use as a mineral springs resort, featuring a hotel, several cottages, and an "amusement" building with a dance floor, bar, and billiard room. Manuel Madrid obtained the property around the turn of the twentieth century, and changed the name to Blue Rock Springs. The area is now managed by the Greater Vallejo Recreation District as Blue Rock Springs Park.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 308
  No caption, c. 1915. William (far right) and Grace (second from left) standing with unidentified friends or family in a garden or yard, possibly in the vicinity of Blue Rock Springs, Solano County.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 307
  Caption: "Causeway -- Sacramento Highway." William and Grace McCarthy driving over the newly-constructed Yolo Causeway, an elevated stretch of I-80 that connects what is now West Sacramento with Davis by traveling across the Yolo Bypass. The Yolo Causeway's official name is Blecher-Freeman Memorial Causeway.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 306
  Caption: "Race Track -- S.F. Exposition." Race track at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition, held in 1915. A horse race is in progress, with several spectators out of their seats in anticipation of the finish.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 305
  No caption, undated. Depicts a temporary memorial of some kind, possibly a funeral arrangement, with a cloth canopy over a podium upon which sits a covered table or small casket, with a cross and decorative flowers and palm fronds. Stairs leading to the podium are bracketed by small pedestals topped by vases holding American flags.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 304
  Caption: "Casa Del Rey -- Santa Cruz.," c. 1911. View of the resort hotel known as Casa del Rey, built in 1911 in Santa Cruz. The hotel operated until sustaining significant damage in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The building was subsequently demolished.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 303
  Caption: "Chino Calif.," c. 1915. Unidentified child pulling another unidentified, smaller child in a wagon in front of a Craftsman-style residence.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 302
  No caption, c. 1915. Unidentified child pulling another unidentified, smaller child in a wagon.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 301
  Caption: "San Diego Fair Grounds." and "39-9, U.S. Naval Training Station, Balboa Park, San Diego," c. 1917. With the advent of World War I, the U.S. Navy needed additional training grounds for sailors. In 1917, the City of San Diego offered to lease the Navy a portion of Balboa Park as a temporary training site until a new, more permanent facility could be constructed. This postcard shows groups of sailors drilling in formation while a small crowd watches.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 300
  Caption: "San Diego Fair Grounds." and "39-6, 3,400 Men, Naval Training Station, Balboa Park, San Diego Cal.," c. 1917. With the advent of World War I, the U.S. Navy needed additional training grounds for sailors. In 1917, the City of San Diego offered to lease the Navy a portion of Balboa Park as a temporary training site until a new, more permanent facility could be constructed. This postcard shows 3,400 sailors lined up to form a Navy flag while at the temporary training ground.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 299
  Caption: "Street Scene -- San Diego.," c. 1910. Street-level view of street in San Diego. The U.S. Grant Hotel rises above the surrounding buildings in the center of the photograph.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 298
  Caption: "Grant Hotel -- San Diego," c. 1910. View of the U.S. Grant Hotel, built by the son of Ulysses S. Grant (Union General and 18th President of the U.S.), who named the hotel for his father. The building, designed by Harrison Albright, opened for business in October 1910.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 297
  Caption: "Forbidden Garden -- Santa Barbara Mission," c. 1910. View of the gardens associated with Santa Barbara Mission. The gardens initially served as the location for instructing neophytes (Native American converts living at the mission) in trades and skills deemed necessary to life in European civilization. Later, the garden was used for meditation. The garden was often dubbed "forbidden" because it was closed to female visitors, as were many enclosures in active missions.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 296
  Caption: "Santa Barbara Mission," c. 1910. View of Mission Santa Barbara, established by Spanish Franciscan monks in 1786.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 295
  No caption, c. 1910. Unidentified man leaning against tree.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 294
  No caption, c. 1910. Unidentified woman holding a baby while standing in a park or garden.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 293
  Caption: "Echo Park [sic] -- Los Angeles," c. 1910. Grace McCarthy standing on a bridge in Los Angeles' Echo Lake Park. The park opened in 1895. The lake was originally created in 1868 to support the operations of a mill. The mill, however, closed seven years later. The site was later selected for conversion to a city park.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 292
  Caption: "Echo Park [sic] Los Angeles," c. 1910. William McCarthy standing on a bridge in Los Angeles' Echo Lake Park. The park opened in 1895. The lake was originally created in 1868 to support the operations of a mill. The mill, however, closed seven years later. The site was later selected for conversion to a city park.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 291
  Caption: "Echo Park [sic] Los Angeles," c. 1910. View across Echo Lake at lush vegetation along the far lake edge. Echo Lake Park opened in 1895. The lake was originally created in 1868 to support the operations of a mill. The mill, however, closed seven years later. The site was later selected for conversion to a city park.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 290
  Caption: "East Lake [sic] Park," c. 1910. Eastlake Park in Los Angeles was originally created by the city in 1881 under the name "East Los Angeles Park." Renamed Eastlake Park in 1901, it gained its current name, Lincoln Park, in 1917. In this photograph, Grace McCarthy, seen from across East Lake, stands at the lake's edge on the right, surrounded by lush vegetation and park benches.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 289
  Caption: "High School -- San Diego," c. 1910. By 1902 San Diego's schools had become overcrowded enough to warrant the construction of a new high school building. Completed in 1907 and designed by F.S. Allen, the new building was quickly nicknamed the "Grey Castle on the Hill" in reference to its castle-like parapets and towers. The Grey Castle was torn down in 1975 to make way for a facility in compliance with new earthquake safety laws.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 288
  Caption: "Court House -- San Diego," c. 1910. View of the second courthouse built by San Diego County, completed in 1889. Designed by architectural firm Cornstock & Trotsche of San Francisco, this elaborate building featured a bell and clock tower, statues of four presidents, and 42 stained-glass windows honoring each state in the Union at the time of installation. The tower was removed in 1939. Twenty years later, the entire building was demolished in favor of a newer facility.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 287
  No caption, c. 1910. View of the California State Capitol Building. Trees obscure much of the building.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 286
  Caption: "A Holdup," c. 1910. Grace McCarthy standing in a yard or garden aiming a rifle at an unseen target.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 285
  No caption, undated. Image of unidentified lake and surrounding park.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 284
  Caption: "East Lake [sic] Park, Los Angeles," c. 1906. Eastlake Park in Los Angeles was originally created by the city in 1881 under the name "East Los Angeles Park." Renamed Eastlake Park in 1901, it gained its current name, Lincoln Park, in 1917. This photograph shows the park's elaborate bandstand and portions of the lake for which the park is named.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 283
  Caption: "Street Scene -- Los Angeles," c. 1910. Street-level view of an unidentified busy street in Los Angeles.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 282
  Caption: "Street Scene -- Los Angeles," c. 1910. Rooftop view of an unidentified street in Los Angeles.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 281
  Caption: "Ocean Park," c. 1910. Night view of amusement zone at what became Venice, California. In 1905, Abbot Kinney built a series of canals as part of a development project along Santa Monica Beach, hoping to recreate the look and feel of Italy's iconic "Floating City" in southern California. Called Ocean Park at first, in 1911, the name officially changed to Venice. By 1929, however, many of the canals had been filled in to create roadways, and those that remained fell into disrepair. A revitalization movement in the early 1990s has restored some of the canals, and made the area a desirable residential neighborhood.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 280
  Caption: "Venice," c. 1911. View of canal and bridge in Venice, California, with amusement "zone" in the distance. In 1905, Abbot Kinney built a series of canals as part of a development project along Santa Monica Beach, hoping to recreate the look and feel of Italy's iconic "Floating City" in southern California. Called Ocean Park at first, in 1911, the name officially changed to Venice. By 1929, however, many of the canals had been filled in to create roadways, and those that remained fell into disrepair. A revitalization movement in the early 1990s has restored some of the canals, and made the area a desirable residential neighborhood.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 279
  Caption: "A Wooded Garden -- Pasadena, Calif.," c. 1910. William and Grace McCarthy seated in chairs beneath a tree in a garden.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 278
  Caption: "Hollywood.," c. 1915. Street scene in Hollywood, California. The Hotel Hollywood is visible at the left side of the photograph. The hotel, originally built in 1902 and expanded in 1905, served as a social venue for many of Hollywood's early film stars. It was torn down in 1956 to make way for an office building.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 277
  No Photograph 277 exists in Album 05, the number having apparently been skipped when the photographs were labeled.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 276
  Caption: "Long Beach," c. 1910. Bathers enjoying the surf at Long Beach. Long Beach pier runs through the center of the photograph.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 275
  Caption: "Long Beach," c. 1910. View of The Pike, an amusement zone along the beach front in Long Beach. The framework for the Bisby's Spiral Airship ride can be seen at the far right of the photograph.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 274
  Caption: "Venice, Calif," c. 1911. Unidentified woman standing on a bridge over Lion Canal in Venice, California. In 1905, Abbot Kinney built a series of canals as part of a development project along Santa Monica Beach, hoping to recreate the look and feel of Italy's iconic "Floating City" in southern California. Called Ocean Park at first, gondoliers sailed boats under elegant bridges such as the one shown in this photograph, in an effort to attract businesses, residents, and investors. In 1911, the name officially changed to Venice. By 1929, however, many of the canals had been filled in to create roadways, and those canals that remained fell into disrepair. A revitalization movement in the early 1990s has restored some of the canals, and made the area a desirable residential neighborhood.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 273
  Caption: "Venice, Calif," c. 1911. Grace McCarthy and an unidentified woman standing on a bridge over Lion Canal in Venice, California. In 1905, Abbot Kinney built a series of canals as part of a development project along Santa Monica Beach, hoping to recreate the look and feel of Italy's iconic "Floating City" in southern California. Called Ocean Park at first, gondoliers sailed boats under elegant bridges such as the one shown in this photograph, in an effort to attract businesses, residents, and investors. In 1911, the name officially changed to Venice. By 1929, however, many of the canals had been filled in to create roadways, and those canals that remained fell into disrepair. A revitalization movement in the early 1990s has restored some of the canals, and made the area a desirable residential neighborhood.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 272
  Caption: "Sugar Factory -- Chino," c. 1915. View of Chino's sugar beet factory, established in 1891 by Robert and Henry Oxnard. Henry later established a larger factory in the town that now bears his name (Oxnard, in Ventura County). The factory operated for more than twenty-five years before closing in October 1917.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 271
  Caption: "Sugar Factory -- Chino Calif," c. 1915. Chino's sugar beet factory, shown in this photograph, was established in 1891 by Robert and Henry Oxnard. Henry later established a larger factory in the town that now bears his name (Oxnard, in Ventura County). The Chino factory operated for more than twenty-five years before closing in October 1917.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 270
  Caption: "S.S. Santa Rosa." Wreck of the S.S. Santa Rosa off Point Arguello in Santa Barbara County. The steamship ran aground on July 6, 1911. Unable to break free, the turbulent waters eventually cracked the ship in half. All two hundred passengers got to shore alive, the only fatalities coming when four sailors were accidentally thrown out of a lifeboat by rough seas while attempting to establish a land line to stabilize the wreck.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 269
  Caption: "San Pedro Harbor," c. 1910. View of San Pedro Bay, with harbor facilities such as wharves and cranes in the background. San Pedro Bay was declared the official port for Los Angeles in 1897.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 268
  Caption: "Asleep NOT!" William and Grace McCarthy jokingly ensconced in a bed beneath a tree in a garden or yard.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 267
  Caption: "Camp Life -- Chino Calif." William and Grace McCarthy laughing as they remove their shoes in preparation for getting into a bed situated under a tree in a yard or garden.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 266
  Caption: "Chino Public School." View of public school building in Chino, California.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 265
  Caption: "Chino Avenue, Chino Cal." Rural dirt road lined with trees.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 264
  Caption: "Chino Calif." Two unidentified children posing on the stoop of a house in Chino.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 263
  Caption: "Camp Life -- Chino." Unidentified child and baby on bed under tree in garden or yard.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 262
  Caption: "Chino Calif." Four unidentified children, including a baby, playing on a bed under a tree in a yard or garden.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 261
  Caption: "Camp Life -- Chino Calif." Four unidentified children (including a baby) playing on a bed under a tree in a garden or yard.