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  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 294

    Caption: "Benicia, Calif.," c. 1915, shows Grace McCarthy standing in the doorway of a home in Benicia.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 283

    Caption: "Yosemite - El Portal Highway," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy and an unidentified man and woman sit at the side of the El Portal Road, now California State Route 140. Their automobile is parked across the road, and timbered, granite mountainsides provide the background.

    Date: 1917

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 230

    Caption: "Entrance - California Building," (Bertrum Goodhue, architect), shows the richly-decorated entranceway to the California Building at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego, 1915.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 041

    Caption: " Court of the Universe - Colonnades," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 006

    Caption: "Main Street, Watsonville," c. 1906. A view of a sparsely populated Main Street, with buggies and people in the distance.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 241

    Caption: "Narada Falls, Rainier Park," c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 009

    Caption: "Fort Point and Golden Gate," c. 1906. Fort Point in the foreground, with ships in the bay. 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 of brick and mortar, the fort included emplacements for 141 guns but never fired a weapon in defense of the Bay.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 078

    No Caption: c. 1910. Grace McCarthy kneeling in a garden, looking down at flowers.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 190

    Caption: "The Chutes, S. F.," c. 1905. View of the Fulton Street Chutes, a 350-foot water slide. Boats or toboggans careened down the slide into a man-made lake at the bottom. Such "chutes" were very popular throughout the U.S. and Europe at the turn of the century. The Fulton Street Chutes operated from 1902-1907 as part of an amusement park area that also featured the "Circle Swing Flying Machine" (also visible in the photograph), a theater, bar, merry-go-round, and a zoo.

    Date: 1905

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 118

    Caption: "Spanish Club Building -- Havana -- Cuba. July 4, 1934." View of the Centro Gallago, now called "Gran Teatro de La Habana," or "Great Theatre of Havana," completed in 1915. It serves as the headquarters for the Cuban National Ballet Company.

    Date: 7/4/1934