Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 059
  No caption, c. 1912-1915. An elegantly attired Grace McCarthy posing in a park or garden.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 058
  Caption: "Huntington Falls -- G.G. Park.," c. 1912-1915. Artificial waterfall in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Huntington Falls cascades down Strawberry Hill to empty into Stow Lake. The 110-foot-tall falls is named after Collis P. Huntington, one of the "Big Four" of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 057
  Caption: "Santa Rosa," c. 1914. Part of a parade in Santa Rosa. The tall wagon in this photograph is pulled by a six-horse team, decked out in feathered plumes for the occasion.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 056
  Caption: "Santa Rosa Court House.," c. 1914. Built in 1910, this building replaced the original Sonoma County courthouse that was destroyed by the great earthquake and fire that ravaged the San Francisco Bay Area in 1906. This second courthouse served the county for more than fifty years before being declared seismically unsafe in the 1960s. It was subsequently torn down, but the area still retains the name "Old Courthouse Square."
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 055
  No caption, c. 1914. William and Grace McCarthy (fourth and fifth from the left) seated on a log with a group of unidentified friends and family in the Skaggs Springs area of Sonoma County. Skaggs Springs was a resort area along the Russian River, known for its hot springs. The area now lies beneath the waters of Lake Sonoma, flooded after construction of the Warm Springs Dam, completed in 1982.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 054
  Caption: "Skaggs Springs," c. 1914. William and Grace McCarthy (fourth and fifth from the left) standing on a log with a group of unidentified friends and family in the Skaggs Springs area of Sonoma County. Skaggs Springs was a resort area along the Russian River, known for its hot springs. The area now lies beneath the waters of Lake Sonoma, flooded after construction of the Warm Springs Dam, completed in 1982.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 053
  Caption: "Russian River Healdsburg July 1914." Grace McCarthy (far left) and four unidentified people (family and/or friends) being pulled in a rowboat by William McCarthy, on the Russian River near Healdsburg.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 052
  Caption: "Russian River Healdsburg, Cal." William and Grace McCarthy (at far left) on wood bridge over the Russian River near Healdsburg. They are standing with three unidentified people.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 051
  Caption: "Riverside Villa Healdsburg July 1914." William and Grace McCarthy standing in the doorway of a small cabin along the Russian River near Healdsburg. An unidentified woman stands in the doorway of the cabin next door.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 050
  Caption: "Russian River -- Healdsburg." William and Grace McCarthy in swimsuits enjoying summer fun on the Russian River near Healdsburg. William stands on a rock along the bank, while Grace is sitting in a rowboat on the river.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 049
  Caption: "Joy Ride -- Skaggs Springs," c. 1914. William (standing in front to the right) and Grace (third from the left in the wagon) McCarthy and a group of unidentified people all holding bunches of grapes, either getting ready for or coming back from a ride in a horse-drawn wagon. Skaggs Springs was a resort area along the Russian River in Sonoma County, known for its hot springs. The area now lies beneath the waters of Lake Sonoma, flooded after construction of the Warm Springs Dam, completed in 1982.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 048
  Caption: "Russian River," c. 1914. View of a bend in the Russian River, likely near Healdsburg.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 047
  No caption, c. 1914. Grace McCarthy in a rowboat on the Russian River near Healdsburg.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 046
  Caption: "Russian River -- Healdsburg," c. 1914. William and Grace McCarthy in a rowboat on the Russian River near Healdsburg.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 045
  Caption: "Russian River," c. 1925. View of a locomotive traversing the Healdsburg Railroad Bridge over the Russian River. The bottom portion of the Healdsburg Memorial Bridge, built in 1921, can be seen downstream of the Railroad Bridge.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 044
  Caption: "Healdsburg Court House," Captioned incorrectly, this is actually the Healdsburg City Hall, built in 1886.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 043
  No caption, c. 1925. View of the RMS Franconia, an ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line. She launched in October 1922, operating on the route between Liverpool and New York in the summers, and as a world cruise ship in the winters. The Franconia was requisitioned as a troop ship during World War II, then returned to the Cunard Line until being retired in 1956.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 042
  Caption: "Crockett Park," c. 1905-1906. Scene in a park in Crockett, California, showing a landscaped hill with flowers or rocks arranged to depict the California State Flag.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 041
  No caption, undated. Image of small, man-made waterfall flowing into a pool made of rocks, apparently in a garden or park.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 040
  Caption: "Crockett Calif," c. 1905-1906. Street scene in Crockett, California, in Contra Costa County. American flags appear on the buildings and arched gateway over the street, implying a celebration is at hand.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 039
  Caption: "Martinez Court House," c. 1905-1906. View of the Martinez Courthouse, built in 1901 and designed by William H. Toepke. In 1933, Martinez built a new Hall of Records, into which the courts subsequently moved. The 1901 courthouse became the Finance Building in 1966.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 038
  Caption: "Benicia-Martinez Ferry," c. 1913. View of the City of Seattle, a steam-powered ferry built in 1888. Purchased in 1913 by the Martinez and Benicia Ferry and Transportation Company, the City of Seattle served as a ferry between Benicia and Martinez until being requisitioned by the U.S. Navy in 1944.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 037
  Caption: "Benicia Cal," c. 1905-1906. Group of eight unidentified people posing around a cannon.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 036
  Caption: "Wreck on the Vallejo Napa Line." Photograph showing some of the train cars involved in a June 19, 1913 accident in which two trains of the San Francisco, Napa Valley and Calistoga Railroad collided head-on approximately 2.4 miles north of Vallejo. Ten passengers and three railroad employees were killed, and twenty-eight others injured.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 035
  Caption: "Ferry Boat Contra Costa," c. 1920. Built in 1914, the Contra Costa ferried locomotives and train cars across the Carquinez Strait between Benicia and Port Costa. The largest rail ferry ever built, the Contra Costa operated until the Benicia-Martinez Railroad Bridge opened in 1930. She made the crossing as many as 52 times in 24 hours.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 034
  Caption: "Independence Day Parade -- Benicia," c. 1905-1906. Parade float possibly with a Native American theme (stylized teepees can be seen at the back of the float) pulled by a team of horses bedecked in garlands, with a single person on horseback riding alongside.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 033
  Caption: "Transport Dock.," undated. Unidentified building on pier, with two boats docked.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 032
  Caption: "Alcatraz," c. 1920. Image of lighthouse, main prison building (at top of hill), residences, and wharf facilities at Alcatraz Island prior to its designation as a federal penitentiary in 1934. Built in 1859 by the U.S. Army for coastal defense purposes, the fort at Alcatraz began serving as a prison in 1861. It ceased function as a defense fortification and became the Pacific Branch of the U.S. Military Prison in 1907. Over the next two decades the facilities on the island were modified and modernized.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 031
  No caption, c. 1905-1906. William and Grace McCarthy, with an unidentified woman, sitting on the entry stairs to an unidentified residence.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 030
  Caption: "Benicia Cal," c. 1905-1906. Grace McCarthy posing in garden with an armful of flowers.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 029
  Caption: "Military Parade -- S.F.," c. 1916. Military parade down Market Street in San Francisco. This is possibly a photograph of the Preparedness Day Parade held on July 22, 1916, in anticipation of U.S. entry into World War I.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 028
  No caption, c. 1916. Military parade down Market Street in San Francisco. This is possibly a photograph of the Preparedness Day Parade held on July 22, 1916, in anticipation of U.S. entry into World War I.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 027
  Caption: "Union Pacific Bridge -- Portland," c. 1912. Built in 1912, this through-truss, double-deck, vertical lift bridge crosses the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 026
  Caption: "Machine Shop -- Fort Winfield Scott," c. 1913. Low brick building with tile roof, with William McCarthy (far left) and two unidentified men standing in front. Fort Winfield Scott, formerly 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, 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. This only lasted four years, however, for 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 025
  Caption: "Scenery Near Camp Meeker," c. 1906. Train crossing trestle at left side of photograph, with trees and other vegetation occupying most of the photograph's area. Camp Meeker, in Sonoma County north of San Francisco, is in the California Coast Ranges. Established by lumber baron Melvin Cyrus Meeker in 1866, by the turn of the twentieth century the area primarily served as a vacation and resort destination.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 024
  Caption: "Monte Rio Cal," c. 1906. Scene on the Russian River with wharf at right, some houses along the river bank in the distance, and a wooden footbridge crossing the river. 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 023
  Caption: "Alcatraz," c. 1906. View of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. The building on the highest part of the island, just to the left of center in the photograph, is the Alcatraz Citadel (also known as Fort Alcatraz). Built in 1859 by the U.S. Army for coastal defense purposes, the Citadel began serving as a prison in 1861. It ceased function as a defense fortification and became the Pacific Branch of the U.S. Military Prison in 1907. The Citadel was demolished in 1909. Over the next two decades the facilities on the island were modified and modernized, becoming a federal penitentiary in 1934.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 022
  Caption: "Presidio Avenue. Entrance to Presidio," c. 1906. Gateway into the Presidio of San Francisco, bracketed by brick podiums topped by ornamental pinnacles. Three soldiers stand guard at the gate. 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 05, Photograph 021
  Caption: "San Francisco Fire April 8 [sic], 1906." Photograph of a page from the Seattle Daily Times. The headline reads "Photographic Glimpses of the Once Proud City." Several photographs of significant buildings in San Francisco are shown (such as the City Hall), all of which are listed as having been destroyed by the earthquake and fire of April 6th.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 020
  Caption: "San Francisco Fire." Photograph of the front page of the Seattle Daily Times, April 20, 1906, in regard to the earthquake and fire that destroyed much of San Francisco on April 18, 1906. The primary headline reads "CITY WIPED OUT! Fire Still Raging!" See also 96-07-08-alb08-186.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 019
  Caption: "S.P. Hospital, S.F.," c. 1910. Constructed in 1908 and designed by architect Daniel J. Patterson, the hospital treated Southern Pacific Railroad workers from across the American West, as well as passengers injured while riding. As the twentieth century progressed and automobiles supplanted trains as the premier method of transportation for people and goods, the hospital entered a period of decline, closing in 1974. It has since been renovated and now serves as a senior housing complex.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 018
  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 05, Photograph 017
  No caption, c. 1906. Grace McCarthy (left) and an unidentified woman (possibly her sister) standing on a platform near a railway line in Muir Woods. See also 96-07-08-alb05-016.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 016
  Caption: "In Muir Woods.," c. 1906. Grace McCarthy (in hat with white feather) and an unidentified woman standing at a small platform along a railroad in Muir Woods, being passed by a train car. This was likely part of the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway, established in 1896 as a scenic tourist railway between Mill Valley and the east peak of Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County. See also 96-07-08-alb05-017.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 015
  Caption: "Old Geary Street Line -- Last Days Work of our Old Faithful Friend." Photograph of a horse-drawn cable car, on the last day of operation of the Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway. One of the first railways established in San Francisco, the line operated from 1880 until May 1912 when it was taken over by the city and converted to an electric streetcar line.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 014
  Caption: "Stow Lake, Golden Gate Park," c. 1906. Lake scene, with families and couples strolling along paths on the lake shore, and rowboats on the lake itself. Created in 1893 as part of Golden Gate Park, the man-made lake surrounds Strawberry Hill Island, seen in the center of this photograph.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 013
  Caption: "Portola. King & Queen." Actors portraying explorer Gaspar de Portolà and Queen Vergilia in a parade, part of the San Francisco Portola Festival held October 19-23, 1909. The festival celebrated Portolà as the discoverer of San Francisco Bay. It was held annually until 1913. See also 96-07-08-alb06-162.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 012
  No caption, c. 1906. Grace McCarthy sitting on couch or settee in wood-paneled parlor.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 011
  Caption: "Old State Capitol, Benicia," c. 1906. California's State Capitol moved several times in the first decade of statehood. This photograph shows the third building to serve as the Capitol building, in Benicia. The California State Legislature occupied the building from 1853-1854, until lack of accommodations for the legislators prompted the moving of the Capitol to Sacramento, in February 1854.
• McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 010
  Caption: "State Capitol, Sacramento, Cal.," c. 1906. Façade of California's State Capitol Building in Sacramento. Much of the building is obscured by trees.