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  McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 073

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  Caption: "Tea Garden Golden Gate Park," c. 1912-1915. View of the five-acre Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Established in 1894 by George Turner Marsh for the Midwinter Exposition of that year, it is the oldest public Japanese Tea Garden in the U.S.

  Date: 1915

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  McCarthy Album 03, Photograph 116

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  Caption: "Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park," San Francisco, c. 1907. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, the still existing Japanese Tea Garden is now the oldest public Japanese garden in the United States.

  Date: 1907

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  McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 030

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  Caption: "Mascot Monarch Grizzly, G. G. Park," c. 1910. Captured in 1889, by a man hired by William Randolph Hearst as a publicity stunt, Monarch was one of the last known Grizzly bears in California. He lived in captivity for the last 22 years of his life, mostly in an enclosure in Golden Gate Park, before he died in 1911.

  Date: 1910