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  • McCarthy Album 02, Photograph 031

    No Caption: A view of the Ferry Building, located at the end of Market Street along the San Francisco Embarcadero, which survived the 1906 earthquake and fires with little damage.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 029

    Caption: "Conservatory Golden Gate Park," c. 1910. Built in 1879, the Conservatory is the oldest building in Golden Gate Park, and the oldest municipal wooden conservatory in the country.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 286

    No Caption: In this 1935 photograph, the opening of the Wawona highway tunnel frames the Yosemite Valley with El Capitan (the Captain) on the left, Bridalveil Falls on the right, and Half Dome in the distance.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 333

    No caption, c. 1915. William (far left) and Grace (second from left) standing with two unidentified friends near a river or pond bank, likely in the vicinity of Blue Rock Springs, Solano County.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 211

    Caption: "The Ghetto. Where People Almost Live on the Street, New York City, Aug. 12, 1934." Crowded street scene in New York City, with numerous open-air stalls and storefronts hawking wares.

    Date: 8/12/1934

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 072

    Caption: "Monroe St. Tallahassee -- Florida, June 23 1934." Street scene, showing Tallahassee's Monroe Street. Trees and residences line the roadway, with Spanish moss dripping from some of the trees.

    Date: 6/23/1934

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1617

    Santa Rosa Nurseries

    Date: 1888

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 274

    No caption. William McCarthy stands in front of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, c. 1935. Opened in 1927 and designed by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood, the Ahwahnee Hotel is located on the floor of Yosemite Valley. It was built as a resort hotel by the Yosemite Park and Curry Company. Modernized over the years, its name was changed to the Majestic Yosemite Hotel in 2016, as a result of legal dispute over trademarked names in the park.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 170

    Caption: "Shasta Springs, Calif.," c. 1910. View of a waterfall behind a small gabled building and attached patio. Shasta Springs, just north of Dunsmuir, California, in the Trinity Mountains, was a resort area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It centered around natural springs, which became a featured stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Shasta Route. The resort operated until the 1950s, when it was purchased by private interests.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 206

    Caption: "Vanderbilt Hotel N.Y," c. 1925. Wealthy businessman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Sr. had the Vanderbilt Hotel constructed on the site of a former Vanderbilt residence in New York City, just six blocks from the new Grand Central Terminal. Designed by architects Warren & Wetmore, the hotel opened in 1912. The top two stories were constructed as a private residence for Vanderbilt's family. The hotel still stands today, although it has undergone some renovations.

    Date: 1925