Roland A. McCrady Photograph Collection
name: label: Photographer
content: McCrady, Roland A., 1892-
label: Donor
content: Forbes, Janice McCrady
label: Donor
content: McCrady, Allen
label: Photographer
content: McCrady, James Hamilton, 1853-1929
place: label: Place
content: Costa Rica
label: Place
content: Jamaica
label: Place
content: Caribbean Area
label: Place
content: Panama Canal (Panama)
label: Place
content: San Francisco (Calif.) -- 1900-1910
topic: label: Topic
content: Disasters -- 1900-1910 -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Earthquakes -- 1900-1910 -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Canals -- Panama
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Allen McCrady and Janice McCrady Forbes (children of Roland McCrady), 2003.
creator: label: Photographer
content: McCrady, Roland A., 1892-
label: Donor
content: Forbes, Janice McCrady
label: Donor
content: McCrady, Allen
label: Photographer
content: McCrady, James Hamilton, 1853-1929
setName: label: See more items in
content: Roland A. McCrady Photograph Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Roland A. McCrady was born Oct. 10, 1892 in Rankin, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania; graduated from University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1913. He used a graduation gift of $500 from his father to travel on the Prinz Joachim to the Panama Canal, and apparently also photographed other Caribbean localities, including Jamaica and Costa Rica.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1906
label: Date
content: 1913
custodhist: label: Ownership and Custodial History
content: Gift of Allen McCrady and Janice McCrady Forbes (children of Roland McCrady). The Panama Canal and Caribbean photographs were made by Roland McCrady, but the donors believe the photographs of San Francisco, found in the collection of their mother after her death in 1986, may have been made by Roland's father, James Hamilton McCrady. The hand-written captions on some of the photographs are not by either Roland McCrady or his wife.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0710
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into 3 series.

Series 1: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906 

Series 2: Trip to Panama Canal and Costa Rica, 1913 

Series 3: Panama Canal Construction Album, 1913
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2003.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a photograph album containing photoprints of the construction of the Panama Canal during a trip to Latin America (1913), and photographs of other Caribbean localities where McCrady stopped while on his ship Prinz Joachim. Also 104 photoprints of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire, 1906. the San Francisco earthquake and fire photographs may have been made by McCrady's father, James Hamilton McCrady. Many of the photographs are annotated and dated.