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  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 397

    Caption: "Palace of Fine Arts or National Theater [sic] - built of white marble. Work started in 1900, complete in 1935, cost 35,000,000 pesos." The Palacio de Bellas Artes, is considered the cultural center of Mexico City. It houses the Museum of Architecture, and the National Theater, a performance space for music, dance, and theatre. Murals by renown Mexican artists such as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Jose Clemente Orozco, and others are exhibited on the top floor and other galleries throughout the building.

    Date: 1938

  • McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 053

    Caption: "Gibbons Falls," c. 1923. Yellowstone National Park's Gibbon Falls is located on the Gibbon River. The falls drop roughly eighty-four feet in a gradual descent.

    Date: 1923