Search All Items

No caption, c. 1912-1915. Unidentified woman standing at the gate to a white picket fence in front of a residence.

Date: 1915

Caption: "McCarthy Residence Watsonville.," c. 1906. Grace McCarthy seated in horse-drawn buggy in front of residence. The house is mostly obscured by trees and bushes.

Date: 1906

Those opposing women's suffrage created their own ephemera to spread their message, like this postcard from 1913 depicting a woman standing on a soap box declaring, “De suffragette upon her box darns der men, but not der sox.” This postcard evidenced that although women may have won the vote in California, there were still strong anti-suffragette sentiments circulating in the United States in the years following 1911.

Date: 1913

Hand-drawn sketch map of Cañada de Jonive boundaries. Volume 2, page 164.

Date: 1844

Caption: "Aug. 27, 1934." 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-alb04-071 and 96-07-08-alb09-208.

Date: 8/27/1934

Caption: "Congress Springs.," c. 1910. Grace McCarthy seated on an unusual bench made from a tree branch and logs, in front of a timber shelter at Pacific Congress Springs near Saratoga in California's Santa Clara Valley. Pacific Congress Springs, a mineral spring named after Congress Springs in New York, operated as a resort area from the nineteenth century until the 1930s.

Date: 1910

No caption: Grace McCarthy (standing, second from right), with several unidentified adults and children posing for photograph in front of a small house with a hillside of crops in the distance, and an automobile in the foreground, in Solano County, c. 1910 - 1915.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Chas Chaplin Residence Los Angeles, May 18, 1934." View of a castle-like building, with crenellated parapets and a tower. William McCarthy labeled this as a residence of Charlie Chaplin. The sign in front appears to indicate that the building is a church rather than a residence, but is difficult to read.

Date: 5/18/1934

Caption: "Guard mount of the 2nd Squadron, 8th Cavalry, at Fort Huachuca, Aug -- Taken from life, McNally, 1909." A photograph of a drawing of seven men of the 2nd Squadron, 8th Cavalry at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, apparently conducting military maneuvers.

Date: 1909

Caption: "Touring De Luxe. Dinner is Served. Oct. 10, 1934." William McCarthy serves part of a meal out of a metal box, with other boxes cooking more food on the engine of his Studebaker sedan. Grace McCarthy is seated to the right at a small folding table awaiting dinner.

Date: 10/10/1934