Exhibits

Items

• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 068
  Caption: "Strawberry," c. 1920. Small buildings nestled among trees, with automobiles parked at left.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 067
  Caption: "Scene on the American River," c. 1920. Narrow bridge over river, leading to two houses, with sign stating "3. F. Rancho. 1915."
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 066
  Caption: "Bullion Bend Monument," c. 1920. William and Grace McCarthy standing in front of an automobile, near a stone monument. Bullion Bend, located between Pollock Pines and Whitehall in the historic Highway 50 corridor, was the scene of a stagecoach robbery in 1864 in which silver bullion was stolen by robbers claiming to need the money in order to support the Confederate Army.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 065
  Caption: "Lovers Leap." This rock formation consists of a band of granite cliffs rising above the Eldorado National Forest.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 064
  Caption: "Fallen Leaf Lake." Grace and William McCarthy standing on wood plank dock, with lake and mountains in background.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 063
  Caption: "Fallen Leaf Lake." Lake seen through trees on a hillside.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 062
  Caption: "Scene on the Placerville Highway." Grace McCarthy standing near an automobile on the side of an unpaved road, today's U.S. Route 50, east of Placerville.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 061
  Caption: "Summit -- Tahoe, Placerville Highway." William and Grace McCarthy standing in front of a small wood shed, likely along what is now U.S. Route 50 east of Placerville.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 060
  Caption: "Tenaya Lake." Lake with surrounding mountains. Named after Chief Tenaya of Yosemite Valley's Ahwahnechee People, Tenaya Lake is located between Yosemite Valley and Tuolumne Meadows within Yosemite National Park. The surface elevation of the alpine lake is 8,150 feet.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 059
  Caption: "Tenaya Lake." Lake with surrounding mountains. Named after Chief Tenaya of Yosemite Valley's Ahwahnechee People, Tenaya Lake is located between Yosemite Valley and Tuolumne Meadows within Yosemite National Park. The surface elevation of the alpine lake is 8,150 feet.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 058
  Caption: "Tenaya Lake Resort." Small cabins in front of rocky mountainside. Named after Chief Tenaya of Yosemite Valley's Ahwahnechee People, Tenaya Lake is located between Yosemite Valley and Tuolumne Meadows within Yosemite National Park. The surface elevation of the alpine lake is 8,150 feet.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 057
  Caption: "Mountain Scene -- Tenaya Lake." Meadow with surrounding rocks and mountains. Named after Chief Tenaya of Yosemite Valley's Ahwahnechee People, Tenaya Lake is located between Yosemite Valley and Tuolumne Meadows within Yosemite National Park. The surface elevation of the alpine lake is 8,150 feet.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 056
  Caption: "Tioga Lake." Glacial lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in Mono County, California, within the Inyo National Forest.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 055
  Caption: "Moonlight Scene -- Sierra Summit." Rocky crag in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 054
  Caption: "Tuolumne Meadows." Meadow area along the Tuolumne River in the eastern portion of Yosemite National Park, with mountains in the background. Tuolumne Meadows is recognized as one of the largest alpine meadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 053
  Caption: "Summit -- Tioga Pass -- Elevation 9940 feet." Grace McCarthy standing beside automobile on an unpaved road, near a stone monument declaring the elevation of Tioga Pass and road signs providing directions and distances to other locales.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 052
  Caption: "Mono Lake -- Craters in the Distance." Mono Lake, in Mono County, California, is a shallow saline lake used as a resting stop by almost two million migratory birds each year.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 051
  Caption: "Devils Gate -- Nevada -- Elevation 7540 Feet." Devil's Gate is a rock formation near Silver City, Nevada. In the nineteenth century a portion of the formation was blasted away to create enough space for a wagon road, which became a toll road serving as an entryway to the Nevada silver fields.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 050
  Caption: "Tioga Road Scenes on the Sierra Summit." Two mountain peaks as seen from the Tioga Road.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 049
  Caption: "Leevining [sic] Grade -- Tioga Road." The Lee Vining Grade is on the eastern side of Tioga Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Mono County, California, northeast of Yosemite Valley. It constitutes part of the Tioga Road, or Tioga Pass Road, now part of California State Route 120. The Grade is visible in the photograph as a thin line running along the mountain sides in the lower third of the image.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 048
  No caption, c. 1927. Grace McCarthy seated on the running board of an automobile parked at a resort in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, near the California-Nevada border.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 047
  No caption, c. 1927. A resort in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, near the California-Nevada border.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 046
  Caption: "Kingsbury Grade -- Nevada." Shows a hairpin turn on the Kingsbury Grade in Douglas County, Nevada. Now part of Nevada State Route 207, the road intersects U.S. Highway 50 near the southeastern corner of Lake Tahoe.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 045
  Caption: "California-Nevada Boundary Line." Grace McCarthy in driver's seat of automobile, on unpaved road with hillside in the background.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 044
  Caption: "Nevada Scene." Mountainside, with another mountain in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 043
  Caption: "State Penitentiary -- Carson City Nevada." View of prison gate and some of the buildings.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 042
  Caption: "Lake Tahoe."
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 041
  Caption: "Lake Tahoe."
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 040
  Caption: "Carson Valley Scene." Valley surrounded by mountains.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 039
  Caption: "Nevada Scenes." Valley surrounded by mountains.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 038
  Caption: "State Capitol -- Nevada." Dome of Nevada's Neoclassical Italianate State Capitol Building, constructed between 1869 and 1871 in Carson City. Trees obscure much of the building.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 037
  Caption: "Carson City." Street scene with Grace McCarthy standing next to an automobile.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 036
  Caption: "Mary." Elderly woman with shawl and metal pail standing in front of fence.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 035
  Caption: "Lake Tahoe Beach." Beach scene, with William McCarthy standing on dock.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 034
  Caption: "Highway through the Mountains -- Nevada." Mountain scene, with highway snaking through trees in the distance.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 033
  Caption: "Glenbrook." Main building of Glenbrook Inn, built in 1907 on the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe, in Nevada.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 032
  Caption: "Al Tahoe." Grace McCarthy in driver's seat of automobile, in front of the main building of Al Tahoe Hotel. The hotel was built in 1907 by Almerin R. Sprauge.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 031
  Caption: "Al Tahoe." Main building of Al Tahoe Hotel, located in what is now South Lake Tahoe. The hotel was built in 1907 by Almerin R. Sprauge.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 030
  Caption: "Fallen Leaf Lodge." Grace McCarthy standing in front of a resort lodge, likely near Fallen Leaf Lake, just south of Lake Tahoe.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 029
  Caption: "Tallac." A resort in the area around Mount Tallac, near Lake Tahoe.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 028
  Caption: "The Cross of Snow -- Mt. Tallac." A cross or "x" of snow is visible on Mt. Tallac's eastern face at certain times of the year.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 027
  Caption: "Mt Tallac." A mountain peak southwest of Lake Tahoe.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 026
  Caption: "Emerald Bay -- Lake Tahoe." Shows Fannette Island in middle of Emerald Bay, and bay's inlet, along southwestern edge of Lake Tahoe.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 025
  Caption: "Emerald Bay -- Lake Tahoe." Features Fannette Island, a small island in the middle of Emerald Bay, on southwestern edge of Lake Tahoe.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 024
  Caption: "Lake Tahoe." Scenic shot of Lake Tahoe and surrounding mountains.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 023
  Caption: "A Truckee Mountain Scene." Mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 022
  Caption: "Emerald Bay." Shows Emerald Bay on the southwestern edge of Lake Tahoe, surrounded by mountains.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 021
  Caption: "Mountain Scene -- Lake Tahoe." Mountains in background, lake in foreground.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 020
  Caption: "Pioneer Monument Near Truckee." Tall monument with man, woman, and two children peering west. The Pioneer Monument was first dedicated on June 6, 1918 to commemorate those who emigrated to California in the mid 1800s. Today, the monument and surrounding area is known as Donner Memorial State Park. The park was established in memory of the ill-fated Donner Party, a group of emigrants whose wagon train was caught in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the winter of 1846-47. The Pioneer Monument's stone pedestal stands twenty-two feet high, the height of the snow that the party had to contend with. Of the eighty-seven people in the wagon train, only forty-eight survived to be rescued the following spring. Some of the survivors are said to have resorted to cannibalism in order to survive.
• McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 019
  Caption: "Donner Lake." Mountain scene with Donner Lake in center of photograph.