Bookmarks
Showing Bookmarks 1 to 6 of 6
-
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
-
No Caption: shows a man in a hat and overcoat feeding pigeons near what appears to be the columns of the Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
-
Caption: "California - Living Giant - Mariposa Grove," c. 1917. William and Grace McCarthy, with an unidentified friend, pose with their vehicle in the tunnel through the California Tree, a Giant Sequoia in the Mariposa Grove of Yosemite National Park. The tunnel was cut through the tree in 1895 to facilitate travel on the road into the grove, and also as a tourist attraction. It is now the only living Giant Sequoia with a tunnel cut through it (so-called "tunnel trees"), the others having all fallen.
Date: 1917
-
Caption: "119. Kobenhavn, Raadhuspladsen." This postcard shows a view of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was sent to William and Grace McCarthy on May 12, 1915, from Copenhagen.
Date: 1915
-
Caption: "Balance Rock - Yosemite," c. 1935, shows Grace McCarthy standing near a precariously balanced rock at Yosemite National Park.
Date: 1935
-
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