Manuscripts

Elwood P. Bonney photograph album of a trip to Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon

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Description: An annotated photograph album of a trip to Zion National Park, Utah, and the Grand Canyon, Arizona. It includes 71 photos (including real photo postcards); color landscape postcards; one Grand Airlines souvenir ticket; one Grand Canyon Lodge pictorial letterhead; and one color postcard map. The album also includes a 3-page manuscript letter from guide "Kit" Carson to Bonney (1935, January 7), with four loose photos in the envelope, laid in. Kit Carson is also included in several photographs as are Hopi Indians in Oraibi. Album also contains two loose photographs.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1932.
Call number: mssHM 83436
Creator: Bonney, Elwood P(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from James Arsenault & Co., December 2017.
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Film negatives of Galloway Stone expedition album in collection of Grand Canyon

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This collection contains a photograph album of 103 prints, 32 loose copy prints, and film negative copies of additional photographs of the Galloway-Stone river expedition through the Grand Canyon in 1909. The photographs were almost all taken by Raymond Cogswell, expedition photographer and include detailed captions. The album's first page has a dedication to Seymour S. Dubendorff written by Julius F. Stone, and two portraits of him. The remaining images are from the river trip, with many of Dubendorff. An undated clipping at the back of the album says that Stone presented the album to Mrs. C. W. Dubendorff sometime after Seymour S. Dubendorff died from illness in 1912. The additional loose prints and film negatives are copies of a larger album of 555 images of the Galloway-Stone expedition that is in the collection of Grand Canyon National Park. The Huntington Library borrowed the album and made the copies in 1963. Correspondence from the 1960s between the Huntington Library, Otis Marston and officials of Grand Canyon National Park is also part of this collection.

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Motor trip from New York to California photograph album

Manuscripts

A photograph album covering an automobile trip from New York to California during the summer of 1921. Also: 22 loose photographs, two postcards, and a blank sheet of stationery from "Hotel Grant," Duchesne, Utah.

mssHM 82591

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Travel album of road trip to national parks of the West

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A travel album of 465 photographs, which the compiler called "1947 Trip West, 6,860 miles," on the first page. The photographs of this automobile road trip include natural scenery, motels, and roadside attractions across the United States, including Ohio, Wisconsin, and Kansas, with a focus on the national parks and monuments in the West. The photographs are a mixture of commercially produced images copyrighted to "Sanborn" and snapshots by the traveler, with several pages devoted to the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest in Arizona, Bryce Canyon and Zion in Utah, Yellowstone in Wyoming, and the Badlands in South Dakota. Most photographs are captioned, and some captions include detailed descriptions of events or places. Of note are examples of "indian villages" designed for tourists, such as buildings identified as "Indian pueblo, Wisconsin Dells" with a sign advertising times for an "indian dance, free admission," and a tipi-shaped gas station in Lawrence, Kansas.

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Photograph album of an automobile road trip from Chicago to Arizona

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An album of 116 photographs with handwritten captions documenting a 1935 automobile excursion from Chicago, Illinois, to Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) in Arizona. The unidentified young, male photographer and his companions crossed the Great Plains to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, then proceeded to southern Utah and northern Arizona to visit other national parks including Zion, Bryce Canyon, and Grand Canyon. Photographs depict scenery and natural wonders such as geysers and mud pots in Yellowstone, as well as corn fields in Iowa and wheat fields in Nebraska. The travelers are also seen fishing, camping and hiking along the way. The album also includes scenes in Chicago and seven images of their wrecked automobile after a crash in Wyoming.

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Mercedes Bryant photograph travel album of Omnibus College tour

Manuscripts

The photographs, postcards, and ephemera document the travels of the participants in the 1931 Omnibus College tour, the first traveling summer school excursion for the college. The tour took the students through Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Montana, and Wyoming. The album contains over 300 photographs, all identified, 77 postcards, and various ephemera. With the album is a 14-page typewritten journal of the trip, along with over 12 loose photographs and postcards (one written by Mercedes Bryant to her mother, Etta). The album also includes 40 photographs taken by Mercedes Bryant in 1932 of locations in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

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Horatio N. Rust Photograph Collection: Trip to Arizona

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A collection of photographs made during Horatio Nelson Rust's 1895 trip from Southern California to Arizona to see the Hopi Snake Dance at Walpi. Rust, a former U.S. Indian agent and artifact collector, was accompanied by Mrs. Thaddeus (Leontine) Lowe, A. C. Vroman, and Charles J. Crandall. Vroman made the majority of the photographs, with the remainder produced by Crandall, who is visible with his camera in some scenes. There is one photograph of scenery (48) credited to F. H. Maude; it is unclear when it was taken. Views include Hopi and Navajo Indians and scenes of pueblo life; the Snake Dance at Walpi; the Grand Canyon; the Petrified Forest; desert landscapes; a group portrait of Mojave Indians at Needles, California; and several views of Rust and his fellow travelers with guides, wagons and supplies. Also included are Rust's notes on "Elevations on the line of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad" and his business card. One of Vroman's photographs (40a) has a signed note from George W. Ingalls, U.S. Indian agent. There is also one view (19b) of a rock memorial in Arizona for Col. C. "Kit" Carson.

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Elwood P. Bonney photograph album of a trip to Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon

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