Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 159
  Caption: "Veu-Deleu [sic] Santa Cruz," c. 1910. Ocean shore scene with waves and high spray, with various structures on a promontory in the distance. The Vue de L'eau (View of the Water) was a station on the Santa Cruz, Garfield Park and Capitola Electric Railway electric streetcar line. The station, built in 1891, was located at the very end of the line, on a promontory overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It featured an observatory on the top story. The same company also built a casino, ballroom, and restaurant nearby. The station burned down in 1925. See also 96-07-08-alb08-193.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 158
  No caption, c. 1906. Unidentified woman in dark-colored dress with fur muff and stole, standing on grassy hill with ocean or lake in background.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 157
  No caption, c. 1906. Grace McCarthy with feather-plumed hat and parasol posing in front of a palm tree. A horse and buggy, and a street scene can be seen in the background.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 156
  No caption, c. 1906. Grace McCarthy in swim suit on beach, with surf around her feet and waves in the background.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 155
  No caption, c. 1910. William McCarthy in suit and bowler hat, posing in a garden or park. See also 96-07-08-alb08-235.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 154
  No caption, c. 1906. Unidentified baby in stroller, located in a park or garden.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 153
  No caption, c. 1906. Unidentified girl sitting on rocking horse or hobby horse, in a park or garden.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 152
  No caption, c. 1906. Grace McCarthy posing in a feather-plumed hat, fur muff, and fur cape or stole.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 151
  Caption, c. 1906. Unidentified baby in stroller, located in a park or garden.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 150
  No caption, c. 1906. Unidentified man in suit posing in front of trees.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 149
  No caption, c. 1906. Unidentified baby in high chair.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 148
  Caption: "Big Trees. Sana [sic] Cruz," c. 1905. View of the base of "Gen. Grant," located in the Big Tree Grove near Santa Cruz. See also 96-07-08-alb03-078.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 147
  No caption, c. 1906. View of the McCarthy residence in Watsonville.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 146
  No Photograph 146 exists in Album 05, the number having apparently been skipped when the photographs were labeled.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 145
  Caption: "Honolulu," c. 1906. Unidentified toddler posed on the back of a horse.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 144
  No caption, c. 1906. Two women posing with four small children, none of whom are identified.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 143
  Caption: "Monte Rio.," c. 1906. Grace McCarthy standing on beach at Monte Rio, with parasol. Monte Rio, north of San Francisco in Sonoma County, became a resort area in the early twentieth century, after the sawmills providing the area's primary industry closed down.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 142
  Caption: "Buriel [sic] of the U.S.S. Bennington Victims. -- Fort Rosecrans." Shows a grave site with dozens of caskets ready for burial. A priest and two altar boys stand at one side of the caskets, while a large group of U.S. Navy sailors looks on from the other side. While sailing from port in San Diego on the morning of July 21, 1905, the boiler of the USS Bennington exploded, killing sixty-six of her crew. The victims were laid to rest in the cemetery at Fort Rosecrans. See also 96-07-08-alb08-217.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 141
  Caption: "Bakers [sic] Beach Presidio," c. 1906. Breaking ocean wave at Baker Beach. The beach is located on the Pacific Ocean, west and south of Golden Gate Point (the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula) within the boundaries of the Presidio of San Francisco.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 140
  Caption: "Fort Casey Lake," c. 1906. Crockett Lake, on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, with still waters reflecting trees from the shoreline.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 139
  Caption: "Pajaro River Trestle," c. 1906. Shows a railroad trestle bridge over the Pajaro River in California's Central Coast region. The bridge is seated on concrete footings.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 138
  No caption, c. 1906. Grace McCarthy in a dress suit and feather-plumed hat, posing next to a stream.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 137
  No caption, c. 1906. William McCarthy in suit and bowler hat, posing next to a stream.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 136
  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. See also 96-07-08-alb07-008.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 135
  Caption: "MC Foto - Mage of Presidio." The caption suggests that the dog shown here, possibly a Boston Terrier or Pug, lived in San Francisco's Presidio.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 134
  No caption, c. 1906. Small dog, possibly a Papillion or like breed, seated upright on its rear haunches on a stool.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 133
  Caption: "MC. Foto" and "Dutch Windmill," c. 1905. This postcard shows the Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park, built in 1903 to pump ground water within the park for irrigation purposes.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 132
  Caption: "Echo Park [sic] Los Angeles," c. 1906. Unidentified man leaning on a railing made of tree branches, with palm trees and other vegetation in the background. 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 131
  Caption: "East Lake [sic] Park. Losangeles [sic]," 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 several people seated on benches and strolling pathways. In the background, the lake for which the park was named can be seen, as well as an elaborate bandstand situated on the lake.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 130
  Caption: "Portion of Interior. Fort Point.," c. 1906. View of arched colonnades on ground and middle floors of Fort Point, and an upper tier with barbettes for the future installation of heavy artillery coastal defense weapons. 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 05, Photograph 129
  Caption: "Steamer Damara. On Rocks at Fort Point." On October 8, 1910, the British steam ship Damara, loaded with a cargo of barley bound for England, ran onto the rocks below Fort Point at the entrance to the San Francisco Bay. It took eleven days to refloat the ship.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 128
  Caption: "Weinstock Lubin Store. K. Street Sacramento.," c. 1906. Street scene along Sacramento's K Street, with the Weinstock Lubin flagship store prominently featured at the right side of the photograph. Weinstock's opened as Lubin's at 4th and K Street in 1874, growing over the years into a downtown landmark. The company opened stores throughout California, as well as Nevada and Utah. The building pictured here replaced the original store, which burned to the ground in 1903. The site is now occupied by Macy's.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 127
  Caption: "State Capitol -- Sacramento," c. 1906. Grace McCarthy (farthest to the right) and three unidentified people in an automobile in front of the California State Capitol in Sacramento.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 126
  No caption, c. 1910. View of Bisby's Spiral Airship, located in an amusement "zone" known as The Pike in Long Beach, California. One of the earliest suspended roller coasters, this thrill ride operated from about 1902 to 1915. Gondolas suspended below the rails carried riders up a lift to the top of a tower, after which they followed a spiral track back down to the loading area.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 125
  No caption, c. 1906. Unidentified woman sitting on bench in garden under trees.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 124
  Caption: "Annheuser Busch Residence. Los Angeles," c. 1906. Unidentified woman standing in front of Tudor-style mansion, with several gables and chimneys covered in ivy. Built in 1898 in Pasadena and designed by Frederick Roehrig, the Ivy Wall (the mansion's nickname) was purchased by Adolphus Busch in 1905. Busch gradually bought up much of the surrounding property, and subsequently created the first Busch Gardens. After his death in 1913, his wife Lily continued to develop the gardens. Lily died in 1928. Over the next two decades, the gardens were gradually sold off to real estate developers. The Ivy Wall itself was torn down in 1952.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 123
  No caption, c. 1920. Sacramento River scene, with trees and shrubs lining both banks.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 122
  No caption, c. 1920. River scene with a boat, possibly a paddle steamer, traveling close to the riverbank at the left side of the photograph.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 121
  Caption: "Brothers Light House" and "Scenes on the Sacramento River.," c. 1920. Shows the island and structures associated with the East Brother Island Lighthouse, lit in 1874 in San Rafael Bay near Richmond, California. The light was automated in 1969. After restoration in the early 1980s, the lighthouse now operates as a bed-and-breakfast.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 120
  No caption, c. 1920. Scene along the Sacramento River, showing a small two-masted ship carrying freight.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 119
  No caption, c. 1920. Scene along the Sacramento River, showing some houses on the bank and two small rowboats.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 118
  Caption: "Sutter [sic] Fort. Sacramento.," c. 1920. Image of the main building of Sutter's Fort. John Sutter established the fort in 1839, calling it New Helvetia. After the discovery of gold at one of Sutter's mills (at Coloma, on the American River), almost all of the fort's inhabitants left for the gold fields in the foothills. The fort deteriorated until being restored from 1891-1893. The fort is now the site of a State Historic Park. See also 96-07-08-alb05-117.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 117
  Caption: "Sutter [sic] Fort. Sacramento.," c. 1920. A gun tower at Sutter's Fort, and a gate bracketed by two cannons. John Sutter established the fort in 1839, calling it New Helvetia. After the discovery of gold at one of Sutter's mills (at Coloma, on the American River), almost all of the fort's inhabitants left for the gold fields in the foothills. The fort deteriorated until being restored from 1891-1893. The fort is now the site of a State Historic Park. See also 96-07-08-alb05-118.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 116
  Caption: "Alum Rock," c. 1910. Grace McCarthy standing in front of a gazebo in Alum Rock Park. The park, founded in 1872, is one of California's oldest municipal parks. The gazebo, the park's oldest standing structure (built in about 1890), features a fountain that used to supply water from the mineral springs in the area. Today, the fountain's water comes from the City of San Jose's municipal supply.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 115
  Caption: "Hotel Vendome. San Jose.," c. 1910. View of the Hotel Vendome, a resort hotel built in San Jose in 1889. The hotel was demolished in 1930, the land subdivided and sold as residential lots.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 114
  Caption: "Sleighing in Port Townsend," c. 1910. Grace McCarthy sitting in horse-drawn sleigh in front of a snow-covered residence in Port Townsend, Washington. See also 96-07-08-alb08-049.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 113
  No caption, c. 1910. Image of the Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park, built in 1903 to pump ground water within the park for irrigation purposes.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 112
  No caption, c. 1910. William McCarthy holding a branch from an apple tree, with several apples still attached.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 111
  Caption: "Ocean Beach, S.F.," c. 1910. Scene at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, with eating establishment Murray's in the background. The photograph features both motor car and horse-and-buggy transportation methods.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 110
  Caption: "1st St San Jose," c. 1910. Street scene showing stately buildings on the right side of the photograph, while trees line the street on the left. A trolley car can be seen in the distance.