D.S. Mitchell's photography tent

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  [D.S. Mitchell's photography tent with two men in front. Mitchell and De Groff, photographers]

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  Photographs of the American West, dating from the 1870s to the 1890s, collected by Carl S. Dentzel (1913-1980), director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California, including a disbound album of photographs of Alaska taken by A. L. Broadbent. These views show Revenue Cutter Service ships and officers; Alaskan natives; towns; scenery; the fur trade and mission schools. Other notable photographs in this collection include portraits of John C. Frémont, Harrison Gray Otis, and John A. Sutter; a series of Lake Tahoe card photographs; and views of early western settlers around the time of the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; walrus hunting; whaling ships; totem poles; officers in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service; vacationers throughout California; the logging industry; Kingston, New Mexico; Greek Orthodox church buildings; the first grand jury in Nome, Alaska; James Gilchrist Swan; and a portrait of one of the collection's photographers, Alfred Lee Broadbent. Photographers who contributed to this collection include William C. Billington, Alfred Lee Broadbent, F. Davey, Edward De Groff, Charles D. Kirkland, D. S. Mitchell, C.H. Shaffner, Julius Ulke, and Raper James Waters.

  photCL 98

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  Colorado River - Survey party tent camp in desert

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  Colorado River - [Survey party tent camp in desert] - [additional shot with 16 men standing by two touring cars in tent camp (SCE 7022) on same photocard]

  photCL SCE 02 - 07021

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  Soldiers with tents

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  Photo of a line of tents with a soldier standing in front of one, and two more soldiers in the background.

  photCL 39 (461)

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  Union Mills Station, Orange & Alexandria RR

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  Two locomotives pulling into the Union Mills Station in Clifton, Virginia. First locomotive has only one car, name on side unreadable. The second locomotive is hauling two flat bed cars, a single car and a manual derrick car. There are several men riding on the flat bed and scattered around the track. One man stands in the middle of the photo in front of a triangle tent and on the front right-hand side of photo is a water tower with large wooden barrels. This image similar to photCL 301 (95). Title on mount: Union Mills Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 16.

  photCL 301 (27)

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  John Mitchell letter to Cadwallader Colden, London

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  The letter describes Mitchell's involvement in publishing the London edition of Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada; his effort to further Colden's interest with Mitchell's patrons Archibald Campbell, the third Duke of Argyll and the president of the Board of Trade George Montagu Dunk, the second earl of Halifax; the outbreak of yellow fever in New York; Mitchell's plans for "the Natural & medical History of N. America;" his interest in American native plants, including plant pigments that "the Indians dye their Red & black colours with," and in "the New surveys the french have lately made of their Colonies."

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  Shed with three men and a child

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  Photo of three men and a child in front of a wooden shed.

  photCL 98 (21)