McCarthy Archive

Amateur photographer William M. McCarthy (1876 – 1956) and Grace C. Kane (1878 – 1957) were married for over fifty years. They lived in San Francisco, where William was stationed as an armament expert for the US War Department. The couple enjoyed travel and photography, visiting San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition and San Diego’s Panama-California Exposition. See this photo of the McCarthys and another woman in a back-facing seat on an electriquette published in California State Archives’ California Originals, Summer 2015.