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  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 012

    No caption, c. 1906. Grace McCarthy sitting on couch or settee in wood-paneled parlor.

    Date: 1906

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 111

    Caption: "Steamer Minnesota, Seattle.," c. 1909. View of the steamship Minnesota II, built in 1903. She was said to be the largest U.S. merchant ship afloat at the time. Operated by the Great Northern Steamship Company, she sailed between the U.S. and markets in Asia until 1915. She was sold at that time, and in 1917 began operating in the Atlantic between the U.S. and the United Kingdom. The U.S. Navy commissioned her as a troop ship in 1919, changing her name to Troy. She brought over 14,000 U.S. troops home from war-torn Europe. She never resumed active service after this, being scrapped in 1923. See also 96-07-08-alb08-166.

    Date: 1909

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 282

    Caption: "Mirror Lake," c. 1917. Mirror Lake in Yosemite National Park, on Tenaya Creek, is the remains of a glacial lake that used to fill most of the valley. Its calm waters provide near-perfect reflections of the surrounding natural splendor.

    Date: 1917

  • 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 02, Photograph 053

    No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-169 with caption:"On the Shasta Route, Cal," c. 1910. Photograph likely taken from an observation car, showing a train running along a creek or river in a mountainous area. Given the caption, this is likely in the Siskiyou Mountains, Trinity Mountains, or the Cascade Range, but the specific location is unidentified.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 246

    Caption: "Interior of California Building, P.C. Expo. San Diego, July 18, 1915," at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego. See also 96-07-08-alb01-153.

    Date: 1915

  • McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 076

    *Caption: "Broadway at Bowling Green, N.Y." Street scene in New York City, showing Broadway near the small public park Bowling Green. See also 96-07-08-alb11-233 and 96-07-08-alb09-204.

    Date: 8/31/1934

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 027

    No Caption: Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles, c. 1935.

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 159

    Caption: "Veu-Deleu [sic] Santa Cruz," c. 1910. Ocean shore scene with waves and high spray, with various structures on a promontory in the distance. The Vue de L'eau (View of the Water) was a station on the Santa Cruz, Garfield Park and Capitola Electric Railway electric streetcar line. The station, built in 1891, was located at the very end of the line, on a promontory overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It featured an observatory on the top story. The same company also built a casino, ballroom, and restaurant nearby. The station burned down in 1925. See also 96-07-08-alb08-193.

    Date: 1910

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 054

    Caption: "Skaggs Springs," c. 1914. William and Grace McCarthy (fourth and fifth from the left) standing on a log with a group of unidentified friends and family in the Skaggs Springs area of Sonoma County. Skaggs Springs was a resort area along the Russian River, known for its hot springs. The area now lies beneath the waters of Lake Sonoma, flooded after construction of the Warm Springs Dam, completed in 1982.

    Date: 1914

  • McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 142

    Caption: "Buriel [sic] of the U.S.S. Bennington Victims. -- Fort Rosecrans." Shows a grave site with dozens of caskets ready for burial. A priest and two altar boys stand at one side of the caskets, while a large group of U.S. Navy sailors looks on from the other side. While sailing from port in San Diego on the morning of July 21, 1905, the boiler of the USS Bennington exploded, killing sixty-six of her crew. The victims were laid to rest in the cemetery at Fort Rosecrans. See also 96-07-08-alb08-217.

    Date: 1905-07-23