Bill Jay's album : friends and other photographers | Collections | The Huntington

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Cyanide & spirits : an inside-out view of early photography
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"'Cyanide & spirits' is a fascinating, humourously written view of early photography. You'll about spirit photography and prison portraits, back-street operators and the pros and cons of smoking int he darkroom. This book is a must for anyone who still believes that our photographic forefathers were nothing more than dour and solemn moralists, and will be appreciated by those who already know that what early photographers were really interested in is a lot different than what most contemporary histroaisn would have us believe"--Back cover.
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F. Jay Haynes photographs of Yellowstone National Park
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A collection of over 200 photographs of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, chiefly of natural scenery such as geysers, hot springs, and waterfalls, as well as images of the earliest hotels built in the park. The mounted prints are 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches and were taken by photographer F. Jay Haynes in the 1880s, when he operated as an official photographer in the park. One image shows his studio with a sign reading "Haynes Park Views" and there are exterior and interior views of his traveling railroad car photography studio. Other subjects are: tourists camping and riding in stagecoaches; a group posed by the Yellowstone River; a sternwheeler ferry on the lake; and a portrait of Shoshone chief Washakie and other Shoshone Indians at Fort Washakie, Wyoming Territory. In 1887, Haynes joined an expedition with explorer Frederick Schwatka and took some of the earliest photographs of Yellowstone in winter. Scenes include the expedition party on skis in front of Norris Hotel, and Schwatka at Obsidian Cliff. There are a few views of two other locations: harbor scenes in Portland, Oregon, and mills and logging activity in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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F. Jay Haynes photographs of Yellowstone National Park
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A collection of over 200 photographs of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, chiefly of natural scenery such as geysers, hot springs, and waterfalls, as well as images of the earliest hotels built in the park. The mounted prints are 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches and were taken by photographer F. Jay Haynes in the 1880s, when he operated as an official photographer in the park. One image shows his studio with a sign reading "Haynes Park Views" and there are exterior and interior views of his traveling railroad car photography studio. Other subjects are: tourists camping and riding in stagecoaches; a group posed by the Yellowstone River; a sternwheeler ferry on the lake; and a portrait of Shoshone chief Washakie and other Shoshone Indians at Fort Washakie, Wyoming Territory. In 1887, Haynes joined an expedition with explorer Frederick Schwatka and took some of the earliest photographs of Yellowstone in winter. Scenes include the expedition party on skis in front of Norris Hotel, and Schwatka at Obsidian Cliff. There are a few views of two other locations: harbor scenes in Portland, Oregon, and mills and logging activity in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Photograph Albums
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The Bullock's Department Store Collection consists of 680 photographs, 2 boxes of ephemera related to Bullock's publicity and events, and 29 glass plate negatives, 1905-1971. It focuses primarily on the retail spaces, displays, departments, and employees at the downtown Los Angeles store once located at Broadway, 7th, and Hill Streets. The photographs document the various functions associated with the store including the full range of departments; window displays; store merchandising; employee activities and gatherings; children's parties and parades; advertising billboards; the August sales event and crowds; and construction scenes from 1912 and 1928. Photographers include Warren Bowen Studios; Brown and Warrington; Dubois Photo Co.; Frank C. Elliott; Jim England; Graham Photo; Keystone Photo; J.C. Milligan; Ernest Pratt; Otto Rothschild; Stagg Photography; Art Streib; "Dick" Whittington Studio; Whitland Locke Commercial Photography; and Witzel Photo.
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Sun in the blood of the cat
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"I disavow any responsibility for this volume's title and solely blame the computer. I dictated the working title 'Something photographic' and the voice-activated software typed 'Sun in the blood of the cat.' The contents, therefore, are not about feline slaughter in a tropical climate (sorry) but about a wide range of issues in photography, past and present"--Back cover.
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Photograph album
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This collection contains photographs taken or compiled by Philip B. Harris, related to his 42-year career with the Los Angeles Railway and his service as a captain in the U.S. Army Engineers, World War I. The majority of railroad construction scenes are related to the Los Angeles Railway, approximately 1905-1920s. Images include: construction and engineering work on railroads in the Los Angeles area; Harris and other men working on surveying projects, 1902, in Mount Lowe and Garvanza; survey parties in the California Sierras and San Bernardino Mountains. Some images appear to depict the Pacific Electric Railway construction surveying party that Harris was put in charge of soon after he graduated, in 1901. A photograph album, 1901-approximately 1919, includes views of Redondo Beach; personal images of Harris and family members; San Pedro Harbor; and railroad tracks being laid for a streetcar line. Several images show Latino workers digging and laying tracks, approximately 1903. The album has handwritten captions for several photographs, but many scenes are unidentified. The images of World War I France include 52 photographs by Harris, with some commercial photographic postcards. Images show war ruins; decorated graves; battlefields; soldiers; people at train stations; countryside scenes, and a group portrait of Harris and other uniformed soldiers at Roymeaux Field, May 21, 1919. There are also photographic postcards of various tourist scenes in France and war-damaged buildings. Box 3 contains a rolled panoramic photograph of over 100 soldiers, including Harris, of the U.S. Army corps of engineers, 1918, at Fort Harrison, Indiana. The collection also includes a typewritten biographical sketch of Harris and a list of names and addresses of engineers and railroad workers from Harris' address book.
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