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  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 162

    Caption: "Don Gasper [sic] de Portola and Queen," 1909. Participants at the Portola Festival on horseback and dressed in period costume as Don Gaspar De Portola and Queen. The Portola Festival was a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 018

    Caption: "General View from the Aeroscope," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 334b

    Image withheld due to copyright considerations. For more information, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk at ArchivesWeb@sos.ca.gov or (916) 653-2246. This postcard, sent to William and Grace McCarthy in May 1937, commemorates the coronation of George VI, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India. The back of the postcard features an image of the Hotel de Ville in Paris.

    Date: 5/12/1937

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 066

    caption: "In Victoria, B. C.," c. 1906. William McCarthy (standing in the center) and four unidentified men with horse-and-buggies in the Gorge. The Gorge is a narrow tidal inlet in Victoria running from Selkirk Trestle to the Craigflower Bridge. The inlet became a popular recreation destination for the area's residents as Victoria grew.

    Date: 1906