Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 267
  No caption, c. 1935. Rock formation and cliff in Yosemite National Park.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 266
  No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy on the steep trail to the summit of the iconic Half Dome, in the Yosemite Valley. The cables used to assist hikers follow a route laid down by George Anderson, who reached the summit in 1875.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 265
  No caption, c. 1935. Unidentified man standing in front of an Indian abode in the Yosemite Valley,
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 264
  No caption, c. 1935. Lucy Parker Telles, a Mono Lake Paiute, lived in the Yosemite Valley. She was part of a group of Native American women who became well-known for their intricate basket weaving.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 263
  No caption, c. 1935. Grace McCarthy sitting in a covered porch swing on the patio of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 262
  No caption, c. 1920. View of the Hotel el Paso de Robles. This resort hotel opened in 1891, featuring a variety of amenities including a mineral hot springs "plunge" bath. The hotel burned down in 1940, and was replaced by the building that is still in operation today as the Paso Robles Inn.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 261
  No caption, c. 1920. Scene showing the La Plaza Building in Atascadero. Opened in 1917 and designed by John J. Roth, the building contained shops, a post office, and a movie theater on the lower floors, while the rooms of the Atascadero Inn occupied the top floor. The building was converted entirely to the Atascadero Inn in the 1920s, but was subsequently destroyed by fire in 1934.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 260
  No caption, c. 1900. Photograph portrait of William McCarthy.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 259
  No caption, c. 1890. Photograph portrait of an unidentified young man.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 258
  No caption, c. 1890. Photograph portrait of unidentified man.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 257
  No caption, c. 1890. Photograph portrait of unidentified woman.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 256
  No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people posing in the yard of a house. William McCarthy is seated in the bottom row, third from the left, while Grace McCarthy is seated in the bottom row, far right.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 255
  No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people posing in the yard of a house. William McCarthy is seated in the middle of the photograph, his profile turned to the camera.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 254
  No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy feeding a buck deer with antlers in velvet.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 253
  No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy feeding a buck deer with antlers in velvet.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 252
  Caption: "The Mother Tree, Big Basin," c. 1935. William and Grace McCarthy posing with the Mother of the Forest, the tallest redwood tree in Big Basin Redwoods State Park at 329 feet high and 70 feet in circumference near the ground.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 251
  Caption: "Big Basin," c. 1935. William and Grace McCarthy posing in front of large redwood tree in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz County. The tree is likely "Animal Tree," given the large burl growths.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 250
  No caption, c. 1915. William McCarthy posing in garden. See also 96-07-08-alb05-090, 092, 096, and 097.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 249
  No caption, c. 1910. Grace McCarthy posing in garden with parasol.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 248
  No caption, c. 1920. William McCarthy playing a saxophone.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 247
  No caption, c. 1920. William McCarthy playing a saxophone.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 246
  No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people posing in a park-like setting.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 245
  No caption, c. 1920. William McCarthy (far right) and two unidentified women, all in swimsuits.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 244
  Caption: "Russian River," c. 1920. Group of unidentified people in swimsuits on riverbank. William McCarthy is kneeling in the front row, second from the right, while Grace appears in the third row, second from the right.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 243
  No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people in swim suits posing on a river bank. William McCarthy is standing in the middle row, third from the left.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 242
  No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people posing for a photograph in a park or landscaped yard. William McCarthy is seated at the bottom right.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 241
  No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people posing for a photograph. The occasion seems to have been a masquerade, as most of the individuals are in costume. William McCarthy, in a clown or jester costume, is seated near Grace McCarthy in the bottom row, second and third from the right.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 240
  No caption, c. 1920. Group of unidentified people posing for photograph in park setting. Grace McCarthy appears seated in the middle row, at far left.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 239
  Caption: "Searsville Lake," c. 1920. Group of unidentified people posing for photograph, with two horses, with Grace McCarthy standing at the far right.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 238
  Caption: "12 inch Gun -- Barbett [sic]," c. 1920. Shows barbette (gun emplacement) with 12-inch coastal defense gun.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 237
  Caption: "250th C.A.N.G. at Glenwood," c. 1926. The California National Guard established its 250th Coast Artillery in 1926, in Santa Cruz County. This photograph shows several caterpillar-type vehicles alongside a rural road near Glenwood.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 236
  Caption: "Lumber Flume -- on the Yosemite Merced Road," c. 1920. Flume with boards being carried by running water, likely along what is now known as California State Route 140, connecting the town of Merced with the Yosemite Valley.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 235
  Caption: "Cedar Brook," c. 1920. William and Grace McCarthy (at left) standing with two unidentified people, with house in background and automobile next to them.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 234
  No caption, c. 1920. Grace McCarthy standing by automobile shaded by trees.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 233
  No caption, c. 1920. Four unidentified women, with Grace McCarthy (second from the right) in what appears to be a park, in front of bushes and ornamental grass.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 232
  No caption, c. 1920. Unidentified man and woman on horseback in front of trees and bushes, near picnic table, in the Searsville Lake area. See also 96-07-08-alb04-231.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 231
  Caption: "Searsville Lake," c. 1920. William McCarthy and unidentified woman on horseback in front of trees and bushes. Searsville Lake, formed by the Searsville Dam, is located in San Mateo County, California. See also 96-07-08-alb04-232.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 230
  Caption: "Pinnacles," c. 1920. Grace McCarthy seated on a rocky outcropping in front of cliffs with unique rock formations in background. Pinnacles National Park was formerly Pinnacles National Monument, established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The rock formations are the eroded remains of the Neenach Volcano.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 229
  No caption, c. 1920. Four-horse draft team apparently hitched to automobile, with trees and houses in background.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 228
  No caption, c. 1920. Unidentified man and woman embracing on bench near the Russian River. See also 96-07-08-alb04-227.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 227
  No caption, c. 1920. Unidentified man and woman on bench near the Russian River. See also 96-07-08-alb04-228.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 226
  Caption: "Hopland-Clear Lake Highway," c. 1925. Birdseye view of the Hopland Grade (also called the Hopland Pass), now part of California State Route 175 connecting Hopland (Mendocino County) with Lakeport on Clear Lake, in Lake County. The road, built in the early 1920s, is sometimes called the "crookedest road in California."
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 225
  Caption: "Blue Lakes," c. 1920. Lake surrounded by wooded mountains.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 224
  Caption: "July 4th Healdsburg," c. 1921. View of river bank along the Russian River near Healdsburg. People are gathered along the shore, watching the beginning of a swimming contest. A line of swimmers is in the process of leaping into the river, in the middle right portion of the photograph.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 223
  Caption: "Healdsburg Bridge," c. 1921. The Healdsburg Memorial Bridge, built in 1921, is a pin-connected Pennsylvania through truss structure across the Russian River in Sonoma County, near Healdsburg. A line of people stands at the bridge railing in this photograph.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 222
  Caption: "Highlands Inn," c. 1920. Grace McCarthy sitting on a bench on the stone and timber porch of the Highlands Inn in Carmel Highlands, a few miles south of Carmel-by-the-Sea. The hotel was built in 1917.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 221
  Caption: "Del Monte.," c. 1920. William and Grace McCarthy standing with an automobile in front of the Hotel Del Monte. The second of three hotels built on the site, near Monterey, California, the building in this photograph was destroyed by fire in 1924. The property surrounding the hotel became known as Pebble Beach, now a world-renowned resort and golf course.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 220
  No caption, c. 1920. View of rocky cliffs with D.L. James House (designed by Charles Greene and built in 1918) on the left side of the image.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 219
  Caption: "Views from Highlands Inn," c. 1920. View of the D.L. James House, designed by Charles Greene and built in 1918. The picturesque stone house sits atop a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, a few miles south of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 218
  Caption: "Midway Point.," c. 1920. Now-iconic image of a rocky outcropping near Pebble Beach, extending into the Pacific Ocean, with a single cypress tree near the top. This tree, sometimes referred to as the "Lone Cypress," has been photographed extensively over the past century. This tree and outcropping can still be seen as part of the 17-Mile Drive, a scenic road tour of the Pebble Beach Resort area in Monterey County.