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  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 017

    Caption: "Old Faithful Geyser After Eruption - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Grace McCarthy stands behind the vent of Old Faithful, a cone geyser at Yellowstone National Park.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 025

    No Caption: A large marble sculpture, The Mystery of Life (Ernesto Gazzeri, sculptor), on the grounds of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles, c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 046

    Caption: "Rainbow in the Mist of Lower Falls," c. 1923. A rainbow over Lower Yellowstone Falls appears as an arch of mist in this black-and-white photograph.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 125

    Caption: "Casino -- Tiajuana [sic]," c. 1915-1916. Wet, rainy scene showing a building dominated by two large towers at the entrance.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 110

    No Caption: shows the Fountain of the Rising Sun,(Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor) in the Court of the Universe, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 215

    *Caption: "Stanford University Chapel," c. 1920. Five unidentified women standing in front of the Stanford Memorial Chapel on the campus of Stanford University. Designed by Charles A. Coolidge and dedicated in 1903, the church was commissioned by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband, Leland Stanford. See also 96-07-08-alb04-202 and 96-07-08-alb05-063.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 057

    Caption: "Jupiter Terrace - Mammoth Hot Springs - Yellowstone Park," c. 1923. Jupiter Terrace is part of the Lower Terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs. A group of riding horses is seen at lower left, and a road flanks what appear to be observation points at the bottom right.

    Date: 1923

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 089

    Caption: "Sea Coast Guns.," c. 1908-1912. View of a disappearing coastal defense gun, with its carriage. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 146

    Caption: "An Abandoned Hydraulic Mine near Camptonville Calif.," c. 1920. Hillside ravaged by hydraulic mining, in which a pressurized jet of water washes sediment and gravel into a series of sluices, allowing the heavier gold and gold-carrying sediment to sink to the bottom for removal. California banned this environmentally destructive practice in 1884.

    Date: 1920

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 306

    Caption: "In The Asti Vineyards - In Days Gone By," c. 1915, shows William and Grace McCarthy posing in front of a giant sculpture of a wine bottle at the Italian Swiss Colony winery, Asti Vineyards, in the Alexander Valley in Sonoma County.

    Date: 1915