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Caption: "The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. July 8, 1934." The imposing resort hotel shown in this photograph was originally called the Palm Beach Inn when it opened in 1896. The original hotel burned down in 1903, reopened in 1904, and burned again in 1925. After the 1925 fire, the building's owners abandoned wood frame construction in favor of concrete. The new hotel building, as shown in this photograph, was reopened in December 1926.
Date: 7/8/1934
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No caption: William (middle) and Grace (far left) McCarthy posing with four unidentified women in front of a small body of water, c. 1925.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "George Washington Bridge, Crossing the Hudson River, N.Y. Sept. 3, 1934." This suspension bridge, designed by Othmar Ammann, spans the Hudson River between Manhattan in New York City, and Fort Lee, New Jersey. Constructed between 1927 and 1931, the bridge included the longest main span in the world at the time, a record it held until construction of the Golden Gate Bridge was completed in 1937. It was originally built with only one deck (as seen in this photograph), but a second deck opened in 1962. Still in active use today, it carried over 51 million vehicles in 2016.
Date: 9/3/1934
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No Caption: Grace McCarthy (left) and friend sitting in the Electric Motor Chair, also known as the Osborn Electriquette, with William McCarthy standing by, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915