Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 117
  Caption: "San Diego Mission," c. 1915-1916. William and Grace McCarthy standing in front of ruins of Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in 1769.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 116
  Caption: "Coronado Tent City," c. 1915-1916. Grace McCarthy and two unidentified people in an automobile near a row of small beach shacks with thatched roofs and striped fabric walls and doorways. The Coronado Hotel is visible in the background. Established in 1900 for travelers who could not afford to stay in the resort hotel, the Coronado Tent City consisted of a grid of streets lined with furnished tents, near the sea shore. It also featured restaurants, a library, soda fountain, theater, bandstand, and other recreational facilities.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 115
  Caption: "Coronado Ferry," c. 1915-1916. Grace McCarthy and two unidentified individuals in an automobile on the Coronado Ferry, traveling between San Diego and Coronado.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 114
  Caption: "Theosophists Headquarters -- San Diego.," c. 1915-1916. Arched entryway flanked by two smaller arches. The domes of the Raja Yoga Academy and the Temple of Peace can be seen in the background. Both are buildings within the Theosophist complex called Lomaland.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 113
  Caption: "Ramona's Marriage Place -- San Diego," c. 1915-1916. Automobile parked along adobe building with sign proclaiming "Ramona's Marriage Place," referring to the fictional character Ramona from Helen Hunt Jackson's novel of the same name. The building, known as Casa de Estudillo, was built in 1827 by José María Estudillo.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 112
  Caption: "San Diego Exposition," c. 1915-1916. Grace McCarthy and unidentified people in automobile at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. The Panama-California Exposition was held in San Diego in 1915 and 1916 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. It was smaller in scale and less well-funded than the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in 1915 in San Francisco. See also 96-07-08-alb05-071.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 111
  *Caption: "California Building -- San Diego Exposition," c. 1915-1916. Automobile parked along road to the Panama-California Exposition entrance, with California Building's tower and dome in the background. The Panama-California Exposition was held in San Diego in 1915 and 1916 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. It was smaller in scale and less well-funded than the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in 1915 in San Francisco. See also 96-07-08-alb05-071.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 110
  Caption: "Los Angeles -- San Bernardino Boulevard.," c. 1915-1916. Automobile parked on road under row of eucalyptus trees. A row of palm trees graces the opposite side of the boulevard.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 109
  Caption: "Los Angeles -- San Bernardino Boulevard.," c. 1915-1916. Grace McCarthy standing near automobile parked on country road under large oak tree.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 108
  Caption: "Del Mar," c. 1915-1916. View from road adjacent to the hotel. The Stratford Inn (which opened in 1909) became the Hotel Del Mar in 1926. It was torn down in 1969, and subsequently rebuilt in the 1980s.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 107
  Caption: "Capistrano Mission," c. 1915-1916. Ruins of the Mission San Juan Capistrano, founded in 1776.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 106
  Caption: "Virginia Hotel -- Long Beach," c. 1915-1916. Automobile in front of the Virginia Hotel, built in 1908.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 105
  Caption: "Long Beach," c. 1915-1916. Ocean beach scene dominated by the Jack Rabbit Racer, a wood roller coaster. Founded in 1902, the amusement area called the Long Beach Pike featured penny arcades, restaurants, shops, and rides.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 104
  Caption: "Venice," c. 1915-1916. Street scene in Venice, California. The "Venice of America Band" is playing in the center of the photograph.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 103
  Caption: "Grounds Where Photo Play Intolerance was Staged.," c. 1916. Large columns and building facades built for the Babylon scenes of the 1916 silent film Intolerance (directed by D.W. Griffith). The set was torn down in 1919.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 102
  Caption: "Residence -- Los Angeles.," c. 1915-1916. Large residence with manicured grounds.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 101
  No caption, c. 1915-1916. The Bernheimer Brothers' mansion, built in 1914, can be seen on a hill in the center of the photograph, while another residence appears in the foreground.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 100
  Caption: "Point Firmin [sic] -- San Pedro.," c. 1915-1916. Rock cliff jutting out into the sea, with house on cliff top.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 099
  Caption: "Hollywood Hotel," c. 1915-1916. Façade of Hotel Hollywood, with automobile parked on street outside. 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 04, Photograph 098
  Caption: "Gaviota Pass," c. 1915-1916. Shows concrete bridge over Gaviota Creek at Gaviota Pass, a pass in the Santa Ynez mountains just north of Santa Barbara. The pass allows U.S. Route 101 to pass through the coastal mountains to the interior.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 097
  *Caption: "Linnard Hotel -- Santa Barbara.," c. 1920. Automobile parked on street before the luxury Hotel Potter. Opened in 1903 by Milo M. Potter, it sold in 1919 to the Santa Barbara Hotel Company, controlled by D.M. Linnard. The famous luxury resort burned down in 1921. See also 96-07-08-alb05-070.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 096
  Caption: "Resident Section -- Los Angeles," 1915-1916. The Bernheimer Brothers' mansion, built in 1914, can be seen on a hill in the center of the photograph, while another mansion is featured at the left side of the image.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 095
  Caption: "Millionaire Residences -- Los Angeles.," c. 1915-1916. Shows view from street of the "Magic Castle," a chateau-style residence built in 1909 by Rollin B. Lane. The building is now used as a night club and performance venue for magicians, and houses the Academy of Magical Arts. A mansion built by brothers Adolph and Eugene Bernheimer in 1914 can be seen on a hill above, displaying Asian influences in its architecture.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 094
  Caption: "Grand canyon -- Yellowstone," c. 1920s. View looking down into canyon, featuring steep terrain. The Yellowstone River can be seen at the lower left.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 093
  Caption: "Niagara River," c. 1920. View of river and bridge.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 092
  Caption: "St. James Cathedral -- Montreal," c. 1925. The St. James Cathedral in Montreal was consecrated in 1894. At that time, it was the largest church in Quebec. Pope Pious XII rededicated the church in 1955 to Mary, Queen of the World. See also 96-07-08-alb09-129.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 091
  Caption: "Conservatory -- Botanical Gardens -- St. Lewis," c. 1923. Shows the Palm House, built in 1915 to house tropical plants in the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. It was torn down in 1959 to make room for the domed geodesic Climatron building which still stands at the site. See also 96-07-08-alb09- 086.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 090
  Caption: "Niagara Falls," c. 1920. View from southwestern edge of falls. The iconic Niagara Falls straddles the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 089
  Caption: "Grand Canyon -- Arizona.," c. 1920.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 088
  No caption, c. 1920. Shows large unidentified building with terraced gardens and a flag pole.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 087
  Caption: "On the Tunnel Road to Oakland.," c. 1920. Foothills of California's Coastal Range, near the San Francisco Bay area.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 086
  Caption: "Congressional Library -- Washington D.C.," c. 1920. Interior photograph of entrance to the Library of Congress.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 085
  *Caption: "The White House." East Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C. The Neoclassical-style residence and work place of the United States President, designed by James Hoban, was constructed between 1792 and 1800. See also 96-07-08-alb09-222 and 96-07-08-alb11-183.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 084
  Caption: "Grand Canyon -- Yellowstone," c. 1920. Rock formations in the first large canyon along Yellowstone River below Yellowstone Falls, in Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 083
  Caption: "Grand Canyon -- Yellowstone," c. 1920. Scenic overview of the first large canyon along Yellowstone River below Yellowstone Falls, in Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 082
  Caption: "Memorial -- Cemetry [sic] of Arlington," c. 1935. Shows an exterior view of Arlington Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery, dedicated in 1920. The Tomb of the Unknowns, also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, on the amphitheater's east steps, can be seen at the far left.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 081
  Caption: "Washington Monument -- Philadelphia." c. 1920. Philadelphia's Washington Monument Fountain (Rudolf Siemering, sculptor) features a bronze and granite statute of George Washington on horseback. Dedicated at Fairmount Park in 1897, it was moved to Philadelphia's Eakins Oval in 1928.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 080
  Caption: "Old Faithful Geyser," c. 1920. Eruption of Old Faithful, a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 079
  Caption: "Yellowstone Grand Canyon," c. 1920s. Overview of first large canyon along Yellowstone River below Yellowstone Falls, in Yellowstone National Park.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 078
  Caption: "Seven Falls -- Colorado Springs," c. 1920. One of a series of seven waterfalls on South Cheyenne Creek near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 077
  Caption: "C.P.R.R. Depot. Montreal," c. 1920. Street scene dominated by Canadian Pacific Railway depot building, built in 1889. The tower was added in 1916.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 076
  *Caption: "Broadway at Bowling Green, N.Y." Street scene in New York City, showing Broadway near the small public park Bowling Green. See also 96-07-08-alb11-233 and 96-07-08-alb09-204.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 075
  Caption: "Washington Monument," c. 1920. Built between 1848 and 1888 to commemorate George Washington (former Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and first President of the United States), the obelisk is the world's tallest stone structure at a height of 555 feet. See also 96-07-08-alb09-212.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 074
  Caption: "Blackstone Hotel -- Michigan Av. Chicago," c. 1923. Built in 1909 and designed by Benjamin Marshall, the twenty-one story Blackstone Hotel sits on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo Drive in Chicago Illinois. It is the building closest to the left side of the photograph in this row of high-rises. See also 96-07-08-alb09-092.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 073a
  No caption. This commemorative ten-cent stamp was affixed to the same page as Photographs 073 and 074. With "United States Postage, Lindbergh Air Mail" written across the top, it shows the biplane Spirit of St. Louis, over a drawing of the Atlantic Ocean between New York and Paris. Issued in June 1927 as a tribute to Charles Lindbergh, who made the first non-stop flight between Paris and New York in May of that year.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 073
  Caption: "Capitol -- Wash. D.C." c. 1920. Shows the U.S. Capitol Building (dome and both wings, at oblique angle). Originally constructed in 1800, the building has undergone several expansions, including the addition of the wedding-cake-style dome in the 1850s.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 072
  No caption. Grace McCarthy and an unidentified woman posing beside large bird bath or fountain, in front of the John Shields residence, in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 071
  No caption. Grace McCarthy and an unidentified woman posing beside large bird bath or fountain, in front of the John Shields residence, in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island. See also 96-07-08-alb09-208 and 96-07-08-alb11-230.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 070
  Caption: "Placerville," c. 1920. Street scene in Placerville. Automobiles mix with horses and wagons along the curbs.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 069
  Caption: "Mountain Pack Burros," c. 1920. String of burros loaded with packs, with fields and trees in background. One young, unburdened burro stands off to the left of the main group.