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  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 023

    Caption: "Clife [sic] House S.F.," c. 1908-1912. View of San Francisco's Cliff House overlooking Ocean Beach. The building shown here is the fourth iteration of the Cliff House, a neo-classical design built after a fire destroyed the Victorian structure previously at the site in 1907. Reconstruction of the iconic restaurant began in 1908, and a new Cliff House opened in 1909 (the building in this photograph). This neo-classical building was extensively remodeled in the 1930s.

    Date: 1908

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 040

    Caption: "El Mirado Hotel-Palm Springs, Calif. May 30, 1935." The Spanish Colonial-Revival style El Mirado Hotel at Palm Springs opened in 1927 and became one of the most fashionable resort destinations for powerful Hollywood studio heads and celebrities. Here Grace is seen posing at the edge of the hotel's famous "plunge."

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 352

    No Caption: A group of unidentified men standing and seated at a circular bar at the Cal-Neva Lodge, located on the border of California and Nevada, c. 1935.

    Date: 1935