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  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 050
    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-078 with 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 02, Photograph 049
    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-080 with caption: "Young Hostler, Harrold," c. 1906. Shows a young child with two horses on the McCarthy property in Watsonville.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 047
    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-193, with caption: "Fillmore St. Dec. 10, 1906." A view of a flooded Fillmore Street in San Francisco during the winter of 1906.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 046
    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-108, with caption: "Crockett Mandolin Club," c. 1906. William McCarthy is seen strumming the mandolin, second from left.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 045
    No Caption: A front page Seattle Daily Times article and photographs reporting on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, with the headline: "City Wiped Out! Fire Still Raging!" April 20, 1906.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 044
    No Caption: A view of the ferryboat, Solano, in Contra Costa County, California, c. 1906.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 043
    No Caption: c. 1906. The Stockton Insane Asylum was established in 1851, completed in 1853, and was the first public mental health hospital in California. It remained a functioning state hospital until 1995.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 042
    No Caption: Santa Fe Railroad Trestle, Martinez, California, c. 1906.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 041
    No Caption: Santa Fe Depot, Stockton, California, c. 1906. The Santa Fe Depot (William Benson Storey, architect) was completed in 1899 for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, the depot was renovated and restored it to its original design and reopened in 2005.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 040
    No Caption: San Joaquin County Courthouse (E.E. Myers, architect), Stockton, California, c. 1906. The neoclassical building was completed in 1890 and demolished in 1961 to make way for a new courthouse.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 039
    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-203 with caption: "Fillmore, the new Market Street," c. 1907. A view of a busy Fillmore Street indicating that much of the city's business has moved from Market Street during reconstruction after the earthquake.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 038
    No Caption: The Californian and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company Building in Crockett, Contra Costa County, California, c. 1906.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 037
    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb05-018 with caption: "Italian Refugee Hut S.F. 1906." Makeshift hut with four unidentified men standing in doorway. After the earthquake and fire that destroyed much of San Francisco in April 1906, hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. Many of these people established temporary refugee camps, using debris from the destruction to cobble together shelters.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 036
    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-168 with caption: "Mission Street After the Quake." A view of Mission Street damage resulting from the San Francisco earthquake.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 035
    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-227, with caption: "Field Piece in Action." Unidentified location, c. 1905.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 034
    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb03-097 with caption: "Wave on Bakers Beach Presidio," San Francisco, California, c. 1906.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 033
    No Caption: The Dutch Windmill at the western edge of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, c. 1906.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 032
    No Caption: Mission Delores, the oldest intact building still standing in San Francisco today, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. The parish church next to it was greatly damaged and rebuilt as the Mission Dolores Basilica, opened in 1918.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 031
    No Caption: A view of the Ferry Building, located at the end of Market Street along the San Francisco Embarcadero, which survived the 1906 earthquake and fires with little damage.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 030
    No Caption: A view of the reconstruction on Market Street after the 1906 earthquake and fires, c. 1907.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 029
    No Caption: A view of the reconstruction on Market Street after the 1906 earthquake and fires, c. 1907.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 028
    No Caption: The San Francisco City Hall in ruins after the 1906 earthquake and resulting fires.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 027
    No Caption: A view of San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 earthquake and fires devastated the city.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 026
    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-182, with caption: "San Francsico April 17, 1906. Center of Town." Bird's eye view of the center of San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Call Building (built in the 1890s to house the San Francisco Call newspaper) is the tallest building in the photograph, just to the right of center.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 025
    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-183, with caption: "San Francisco April 18, 1906. Center of Town. The Awful Fire after the Shake." Fire engulfing buildings in San Francisco's city center after the 1906 earthquake. Great plumes of smoke dominate the photograph.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 024
    No Caption: A bird's eye view of the Presidio at San Francisco, California, c. 1906. See also 96-07-08-alb08-178.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 023
    No Caption: Interior shot of the Sutro Baths, north of the Cliff House, c. 1910. 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.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 022
    No Caption: The Cliff House, overlooking bathers at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California, c. 1905. Unidentified people enjoying the surf and beach at Ocean Beach, overlooked by the iconic San Francisco Cliff House. The Victorian structure shown here is the third iteration of the Cliff House, constructed in 1896. It was later destroyed by a fire, in 1907.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 021
    No Caption: The entrance to the Presidio Main Post, with cannon balls lining the drive, in San Francisco, c. 1910.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 020
    No Caption: The Cliff House, San Francisco, California, c. 1905. The Victorian structure shown here is the third iteration of the Cliff House, constructed in 1896. It was later destroyed by a fire, in 1907.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 019
    No Caption: Railroad trestle over Pajaro River at Watsonville, California, c. 1910.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 018
    No Caption: See also: 96-07-08-alb06-073, with caption: "Trestle over Pajaro River, Watsonville." c. 1910.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 017
    No Caption: A landslide at Brookdale Farm, Pajaro, Watsonville, California. 1910.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 016
    No Caption: Boat landing and foot bridge at C.W. Meadows' place of business at Monte Rio, along the Russian River in Sonoma County, California, c. 1910.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 015
    No Caption: The Capitol building in Sacramento, California, c. 1910. Located on the west end of Capitol Park, the neoclassical building's construction began in 1860 and was completed in 1874. It houses the state legislature and offices of the governor. The capitol and grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and as a California Historical Landmark in 1974.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 014
    No Caption: The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, originally opened in 1879. After the most recent extensive rehabilitation, the conservatory reopened in 2003 and is a city, state, and national historic landmark.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 013
    Caption: "Avenue of Palms," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 012
    No Caption: Grace McCarthy standing on the banks of the Russian River at Monte Rio resort, in Sonoma County, c. 1910.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 011
    Caption: "Work of Mounting Big Guns, Point Benito [sic]," c.1906. This may actually be Point Bonita in the San Francisco Bay.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 010
    Caption: "Work of Mounting Big Guns, Point Benito [sic]," c. 1906. This may actually be Point Bonita in the San Francisco Bay.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 009
    Caption: "6" Battery," c. 1906. Unidentified location, could be Baker Beach, San Francisco.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 008
    Caption: "Late Model 6" Breach," c. 1906.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 007
    No Caption: Bug Gun, next to mortar Carriage damaged in test, Honolulu, Hawaii, c. 1906.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 006
    Caption: "Mortar Carriage Damaged in Test - Honolulu," c. 1906.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 005
    Caption: "Baker's Beach. 6" Battery," c. 1906, in San Francisco.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 004
    Caption: "Work of Mounting Big Guns, Point Benito [sic]," c. 1906. This may actually be Point Bonita in the San Francisco Bay.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 003
    Caption: "Landing Guns, Point Benito [sic]," c. 1906. This may be a misspelling and actually Point Bonita, in the San Francisco Bay.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 002
    Caption: "A Santa Cruz Big Tree," c. 1905, General Grant, located in Santa Cruz Big Tree Grove.
  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 001
    Caption: "Battery Spencer. Highest 12" Battery in the World." With construction begun in 1893, Battery Spencer, located at Fort Baker in Marin County on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge, was one of the main protection points for the San Francisco harbor from 1897 until it was deactivated in 1942. It was named for Major General Joseph Spencer of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 342
    Caption: "Artillery Repair Truck," c. 1917. William McCarthy standing on a truck modified for field artillery repair, at Camp Kearney. Camp Kearney was established by the U.S. Army in 1917 just north of San Diego. The post was largely abandoned by the government in 1920, used as a military and civilian airfield. It did not see increased military service again until the 1930s.