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  • Journal of Dana O. Walton [microform] : 1890-1901

    Journal of Dana O. Walton [microform] : 1890-1901

    Manuscripts

    Microfilm of the journal of Dana O. Walton, kept from May 1, 1890-January 10, 1901. Most of the diary, which largely consists of single line entries, covers Walton's life in Idaho, including the areas around Blackfoot, Lyman, Market Lake, Jackson Valley, Idaho Falls, and St. Anthony. He also spent time running a mill in Wyoming. Walton writes mainly of his daily activities, including cutting timber and hay, growing potatoes, putting up fences, working at a school, and building a stable. He also mentions the death of his wife in 1893, visiting Fort Bridger, and of the shooting of Indians near Fall River in July 1895. Walton also writes of an 1898-1899 trip he took to Yellowstone, and describes visiting Mammoth Hot Springs, the Devil's Frying Pan, the Great Fountain Geyser, and Old Faithful.

    MSS MFilm 00117

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    Raught family automobile travel photograph albums

    Manuscripts

    These photo albums document automobile trips taken around the western United States and western Canada between 1915 and 1933, principally for recreational purposes. Destinations range from Yellowstone National Park to Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada and include various locations in California, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Mexico. There are also a number of photographs of family events, some of which may not have been part of the motor excursions. Only a very few snapshots do not have captions. One of the volumes also contains a State of Washington license permit for a Black 1915 Dodge and a Department of Interior automobile permit allowing the Raught family to enter the National Parks in their Dodge from August 28 to December 31, 1915.

    mssHM 83447-83448

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    LeRoy Crawford scrapbooks of travels

    Manuscripts

    Five scrapbooks kept by LeRoy Crawford during trips he made with his niece Etta Crawford. Each volume contains a typewritten travelogue as well as a variety of original photographs, postcards, images from magazines, cartes-de-visite, and other ephemera. Each volume was assembled by LeRoy and Etta in Chase's Lake, New York. The first photograph album (1901) depicts LeRoy and Henrietta's travels in Tennessee, Mexico, and Cuba. The second volume (1902-1903) describes the Crawfords' travels on the Northern Pacific Railroad ("this train was in all respects the most complete and comfortable one that I have ever seen," LeRoy noted) from St. Paul to Seattle, where they visited the Port Orchard Navy Yard and Moran shipyard (includes photographs of the Ocean Queen and battleship Nebraska during the early phases of their construction). The scrapbook also follows the Crawfords' visits to Oregon, San Francisco, Mt. Tamalpais, British Colombia, and San Francisco, as well as their voyage on the S.S. Newport to Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Columbia. The third scrapbook (1907), titled "The Eden Tour of Forty Days," describes their travels to Jamaica and the West Indies aboard the RMS Thames, including stops in Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad, Panama, and the Bahamas. The 1909 album consists mainly of postcards which were acquired while the Crawfords were traveling on the Union Pacific to Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Alberta, and British Columbia (on the Canadian Pacific Railroad), and also includes postcards from the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expedition (1909). The final album (1911) follows the Crawfords as they again sailed on the RMS Thames and stopped in Cuba before touring Jamaica by car.

    mssHM 75764-75768

  • Life sketches of John Conrad Naegle and Rosanna Zimmerman Naegle [microform]: after 1899

    Life sketches of John Conrad Naegle and Rosanna Zimmerman Naegle [microform]: after 1899

    Manuscripts

    Microfilm of typescript copies of Roanna Naegle Lunt's biographical sketches of her parents, John Conrad Naegle and Rosanna Zimmerman Naegle. The sketch of John Conrad Naegle recounts his running away from home to join the Mormons in Nauvoo; his travels with the 1846 company to Utah; his time in the Mormon Battalion; his experience at Sutter's Mill; his decision to go to San Francisco to buy new shoes before departing for Utah, which led to him becoming an extensive landowner and agriculturalist in the San Jose Valley; his 1853 trip by boat through the Isthmus of Panama to New York City and overland to Indiana; his return overland journey to Utah with his wife, parents, and younger brother (his parents and brother never joined the Mormon church); his land interests in California; attacks by Indians near Lehi; his funding of George Q. Cannon's printing of the Book of Mormon in Hawaiian in 1855; his move to Washington, Utah, to be in charge of the wine industry and cotton growing; his 1873 mission to Germany and Switzerland (his son George C. Naegle became president of the German mission in 1895); his flight to Mexico to avoid polygamy charges; and his purchase of 108,000 acres of land in Sonora in partnership with "Parson" Williams. The sketch of Rosanna Zimmerman Naegle (b.1841) describes her genealogy, including references to her grandfather Lawrence Hoke; her father George Gottlieb Zimmerman's decision to join the Mormons and move to Nauvoo in 1844; the family's overland journey to Utah with Henry Walton's company in 1851; and personal reflections of Roanna's family and character.

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    Agnes Gallicker diary of an automobile trip from Iowa to the Pacific Coast

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    Diary kept by Agnes Gallicker as she and seven friends drove from Iowa across the Great Plains to the Pacific Coast from June to August of 1924. Most of the women were inexperienced drivers, and Agnes makes frequent references to the difficulties of automobile travel, including punctured tires and other mechanical failures, avoiding a "speed cop," and navigating often unpaved or damaged roadways. Agnes herself was a confident driver, and on her days off from driving noted that "my suggestions (driving from the backseat) were well (?) received." Agnes also describes a variety of fellow motorists they met along the way, including three young Dutchmen who helped them with car troubles at different stops along their route. Some encounters were less successful, and Agnes's motto became "Don't pick up with strange men." The diary opens on June 12, the day the women departed from their homes in Iowa. They spent much of their time traveling along the Lincoln Highway and spent each night camping out. In Iowa they passed through Marshalltown and Ledges State Park before driving quickly through Nebraska. Agnes noted with some awe their first view of the Rocky Mountains from Goodrich, Colorado. They also passed through Denver (where Agnes and another of the girls were "looked upon as Indians - People came out...to gawk at us"), Bear Creek Canyon, Colorado Springs, Big Thompson Canyon, and Rocky Mountain National Park, and hiked to Bear Lake (June 25). In Wyoming they drove through Laramie and stopped for a picnic after leaving Fort Steele. "Any place was as good as the other so we ate out on a desert," Agnes wrote, adding that "sand storms [are] similar to Iowa snow storms" (June 27). In Utah they saw Ogden and Salt Lake City (they missed some of the Mormon sites due to arriving on a Sunday, but eventually saw an organ concert at the Tabernacle), and in Idaho drove from Boise to The Dalles along the Columbia River. After ferrying across the Willamette River, they drove down to California, where they saw Mount Shasta and stopped in Redding, Stockton, Buck Meadows (near Yosemite, where Agnes did not go), and Oakland, and saw the Presidio Recruiting Station in San Francisco, went wading in the Pacific Ocean, and passed by U.C. Berkeley. When they tried to pay a portion of a car repair bill in pennies, Agnes wrote that the attendant told them "Californians don't care for pennies - they throw them away. Rich!!". The women then drove north toward Oregon, passing Mount Siskiyou and stopping at Klamath Falls and Crater Lake. In Washington they saw Mount Rainier National Park, Seattle, Snoqualmie Falls, and Spokane, and took a day trip to Victoria, British Columbia. In early August they began their trip home, and Agnes' diary describes touring the State Prison and Anaconda Reduction Works in Montana (Aug.4), spending two days at Yellowstone National Park (Aug.6-7), and driving through the Badlands to the Red River Valley. Her diary ends on August 17, when they were near the Elk River.

    mssHM 78235

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    Photographs and Negatives

    Visual Materials

    The Peabody Collection's 649 glass plate negatives (4 x 5 inch, 5 x 7 inch, and 8 x 10 inch), 1049 film negatives (4 x 5 inch, 5 x 7 inch, 8 x 10 inch, and stereograph), 24 photograph albums (housing 1174 photographs), and 887 loose photographs (boudoir photographs, cartes-de-visite, stereographs, 8 x 10 inch prints, and large mounted prints), dated 1884-1940s (bulk 1890s-1900s), provide a comprehensive view of Peabody's career as a commercial landscape photographer as well as a broad visual survey of many national parks and monuments in New England and the western United States. The first section is devoted to portraits of Peabody and other family members, and images from family trips. The majority of the portraits (of Peabody, his wife Dora, and his daughter Mildred) were taken by Peabody in his studio at 52 Boylston Street in Boston; a few were created by Peabody while in partnership with Alexander Hesler in Chicago; and others were taken by Hesler. Almost all of these were created in boudoir photograph format; some exist in carte-de-visite format. Also included are views of Peabody with his camera equipment in the outdoors, views of Peabody's studio in Pasadena, oversize group photographs of Peabody's tenth reunion at Dartmouth College, and the interior of "Car 159" (Peabody's private car on the Boston and Maine Railroad). This section also contains many photographs of Dora and Mildred Peabody, including images of Mildred at summer camp on Lake Champlain in Vermont, with friends, and at various national parks. Peabody's house at 800 Prospect Boulevard in Pasadena is represented in this section, as is his boat, the Venture (depicted in mounted photographs and in a photograph album with an extensive narrative detailing a trip up the New England coast in 1884). This section also contains three photograph albums describing a trip taken by Peabody, his wife, and friends to the north, south, and middle forks of the King's River circa 1900. Other images in this section include a group photograph of Peabody's father's fiftieth Dartmouth class reunion and a portrait of Peabody's Aunt Helen. The section devoted to New England consists exclusively of city and landscape views. Included are views of Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Connecticut and Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts (in stereograph format); historic sites in and around Boston; the Massachusetts coast, including Salem; New Hampshire (including Lake Winnipesaukee, Franconia Notch, and the White Mountains); the coast of Maine (including Bald Head Cliff near York, and the Isles of Shoals); Lake Champlain and Mallett's Bay in Vermont; and images of the Boston and Maine Railroad trains and ferries. Many of these images include Dora and Mildred Peabody; many were published in Picturesque New England (box 50); and many have identifications written by Peabody on the verso. Peabody's work in Western Canada consists entirely of photographs of the Canadian Rockies in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Included are views of the Fraser River Canyon; the Hermit Range; Mounts Abbot, Sir Donald, Stephen, Aberdeen, Lefroy, Victoria, Assiniboine; views of Asulkan, Illecillewaet, Yoho, and Victoria Glaciers; various mountain ranges (including the Selkirk Mountains, Ottertail Range, Van Horne Range, and Cascade Mountains); Wapta Canyon, River and Peak; the Yoho Valley; Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, Lake Agnes, and Lake Minnewanka; Bow River and Valley; and the Banff Springs Hotel and surrounding areas. These sites are encompassed by Banff National Park, Glacier National Park, and Yoho National Park. Some of the photographs were taken for the Detroit Publishing Company and have imprinted copyright information; others bear Peabody's copyright. The majority have identifications written by Peabody on the verso. Following Canada are images documenting Peabody's interest in the Western United States' national parks and monuments. Images of Yellowstone National Park include 6 photograph albums, loose prints, and negatives depicting a wide variety of scenery in the park, including geysers and hot springs; the Firehole River; Yellowstone Lake, River, Canyon, and the falls; the Teton Mountains; Shoshone Canyon and Buffalo Bill Dam; and scenery along the road to Cody, Wyoming. The Container List details the contents of each album. Many images are duplicated throughout the albums. Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park are documented in 5 photograph albums (3 depicting images of both, and one each of Zion and Bryce), some stereographs, and negatives all depicting numerous views of the canyons and rock formations in each park. The Container List details the contents of each album. Many images are duplicated throughout the albums. The Grand Canyon is represented by one photograph album, many prints and many corresponding, and unique, negatives. In addition to views of the Canyon are images of a Hopi war dance. Yosemite National Park is depicted in one photograph album, prints, and negatives. Views include Yosemite Valley; many of the falls and rock formations; and Mariposa Grove. The section describing assorted national parks and monuments includes a wide variety of both landscape and Native American images taken in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Mesa Verde National Park is represented by a photograph album and negatives. Rainbow Natural Bridge, Natural Bridges National Monument, the Goblet of Venus (near Blanding, Utah), Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Laguna Pueblo, La Mesa Encantada, Acoma (New Mexico), the Petrified Forest, Painted Desert, Walnut Canyon, the Grand Canyon, Crater Lake, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Montezuma's Castle, Craters of the Moon, and Casa Grande are documented in three photograph albums entitled "National Monuments of Desert and Mesa" as well as in loose prints and negatives. The Container List details the contents of each album. Many images are duplicated throughout the albums. Death Valley is documented in a photograph album, loose prints, and negatives, including images taken by Spence Air Photo. Also documented are Canyonlands National Park and Glacier National Park. Other images of the Western United States include Hoover Dam, the Snake River in Idaho, and Ship's Rock in New Mexico; and other images of Arizona include Monument Valley and San Xavier del Bac Mission. Other Native American images depict members of the Navajo, Hopi and Papago tribes; examples of Navajo architecture; Walpi and Oraibi, two Hopi communities; and miscellaneous images. The collection also includes many identified and unidentified views of California. Included are the Imperial Valley; street scenes and buildings in central Los Angeles; the Hollywood Hotel and Paul de Longpre's residence in Hollywood; the San Gabriel region of Southern California, including downtown Pasadena, the Maryland and Green Hotels, California Institute of Technology, the Huntington Library, various residences and gardens in Pasadena, the Tournament of Roses Parade, Altadena, Mount Wilson and Mount Lowe, the San Gabriel Mountains, and Morris Dam; the Hotel Virginia in Long Beach; Avalon Bay; the Mojave Desert; northern California, including Lake Tahoe, San Jose, Stanford University, Muir Woods and redwood trees, Mount Shasta, and Kit Carson Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains; Riverside County, including views of Riverside, the Mission Inn, Sherman Indian Institute, Mount Rubidoux, views of orange groves, the Coachella Valley, Palm Canyon, Redlands, Corona, and the Salton Sea; the San Bernardino Mountains; San Diego County, including San Diego and Point Loma, Coronado Beach, Estudillo House in San Diego, La Jolla, Torrey Pines, and San Juan Capistrano Point; San Francisco and vicinity, including Chinatown, the Golden Gate, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Mount Hamilton and the Lick Observatory, buildings on the University of California at Berkeley campus, and the Monterey Peninsula; Santa Barbara County, including the Potter Hotel, the Eaton and Gillespie residences in Montecito, Nordhoff [Ojai], and oil wells at Summerland; Camulos Ranch, the Ventura River, Santa Paula, and a sugar factory in Oxnard, in Ventura County; the California Missions; and unidentified California landscapes, residences, and ocean views. Also included are Peabody's photo sets, "El Camino Real, Part I," "Southern California, Part I," and "Southern California, Part II." "El Camino Real, Part I" is accompanied by Peabody's narration, which is housed in Box 53, folder 10. The latter two sets depict Hoover Dam, the Mojave Desert, Death Valley, Palm Canyon, the San Bernardino Mountains, citrus groves and the citrus industry, the Huntington Library, Colonel Rust and the Gold of Ophir rosebush, California Institute of Technology, the San Gabriel Valley, Pasadena, and the Mount Wilson Observatory. Many of these images are duplicated elswhere in the collection. Peabody traveled to Mexico to photograph Spanish colonial architecture and the collection includes picturesque sights and churches in Mexico City, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Taxco, Guadalajara, Veracruz, Cordoba, Celaya, Cholula, Chapultepec, Puebla, Tepozotlan, and Cuernavaca; Mounts Orizaba and Popocatepetl; and various miscellaneous images. Some of these were published in Sylvester Baxter's Spanish Colonial architecture in Mexico. The Mexican images also include a Peabody photo set, "Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico" (Box 1, numbers 573-597). Peabody's travels to Europe are documented in one photograph album of Great Britain, and another of France and Switzerland. The Great Britain album contains images of London, Stratford-upon-Avon, and cathedrals in Peterborough, Lincoln, York, and Chester. Other images of Great Britain include Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, and an additional view of Stratford-upon-Avon. The France album contains images of Paris (specifically Notre Dame Cathedral); Chartres, Amiens, and Rheims cathedrals; and Lucerne and the Swiss Alps. Peabody's studio work includes portraits in boudoir format. These are portraits of women, men, women and children, and children. Peabody also made photographs of architectural plans and renderings. These include work by architects Allison and Allison (Santa Monica High School, Union High School in Merced, and the Chautauqua of the Pacific in Los Angeles), Buchanan and Brockway, Foss Designing and Building Company (a hotel in Altadena), Hubert Frohman and Harold H. Martin (including residences in Pasasdena and Altadena, and a woman's club in Tucson), Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (renderings of the Throop College of Technology), Elmer Grey, Myron Hunt (including Pomona College, residences in Montecito and Pasadena), and Withey and Davis (grammar schools in Artesia, Hermosa Beach, and Los Angeles); engineers W.P. Shepherd and Herbert A. Hamm (a factory and a commercial structure); and landscape architect Paul G. Thiene (Goodyear Gardens). Peabody also photographed plants and animals, some of which are included in the "Southern California" photo sets. Included are plants in the garden of the Myron Hunt Residence in Pasadena and the cactus garden at the Hotel del Monte in Monterey, and a number of images of animal displays at a natural history museum. Miscellaneous images in the collection include unidentified landscapes; images of students at work in a classroom; copies of daguerrotypes and paintings; and photographs of the Handy Stereopticon. Some negatives exist in print form; references to these occurences can be found with the prints and on the negative envelopes. Some envelopes contained two or more negatives of the same scene, each with slight variations; Peabody gave these variant images the same number as the original. Some negatives, particularly early glass plates, were reproduced by Peabody in other formats, primarily 5 x 7 inch film. See the ledgers in Series III, Subseries III.A. for details.

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