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Souvenir of Colorado: Black Cañon of the Gunnison Series
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A ribbon-tied booklet containing six photographs mounted on card stock, published in 1886 by Herbert S. Stone & Company of Denver. The photographs are scenic views of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River, Colorado, as seen along the route of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, including rock formations and waterfalls. The photographer is not credited, however photographs in similar booklets by the same publisher have been identified as the work of Denver photographer Alex Martin (1841-1929).
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Souvenir of Colorado: Black Cañon of the Gunnison Series
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A ribbon-tied booklet containing six photographs mounted on card stock, published in 1886 by Herbert S. Stone & Company of Denver. The photographs are scenic views of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River, Colorado, as seen along the route of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, including rock formations and waterfalls. The photographer is not credited, however photographs in similar booklets by the same publisher have been identified as the work of Denver photographer Alex Martin (1841-1929).
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Columbia and Augusta Rail Road
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Showing railroads in operation plus many proposed lines between the East Coast and the Rio Grande. MS calculations right side. "J. C. Wrenshall, Top'l. Eng'r." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: HL sticker: 127962.
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Industrial and railroad map of Salt Lake City : prepared at the request of the Industrial Department Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club of Salt Lake City by the Assistant Chief Engineer's Office of the Union Pacific System Salt Lake City, Utah
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Alt. title from cover. Central Salt Lake City is crisscrossed by train lines. The map lists: "Industries in Greater Salt Lake City served by Union Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande Western, Western Pacific, Bamberger Electric, and Salt Lake & Utah Railroads." There are some 253 listed. Submaps: North Sat Lake City; Salt Lake City south of 21st St. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Travel diary and photographs of a trip to Colorado
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A photographically-illustrated travel narrative describing a summer trip from Omaha, Nebraska to Aspen, Colorado in 1926 taken by three women. Traveling by rail on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and then by car, the three women stay in a cabin near Aspen and engage in a wide variety of activities, including socializing with local residents, meeting miners, attending local theater performances, hiking, camping, fishing, and sightseeing. The diarist comments frequently on the outstanding scenic wonders of the Colorado mountains and her impressions of the surrounding nature. Interspersed in the album are 77 black-and-white snapshot photographs and two postcards. The three women, identified only as "Mother, Nellie, and I," are later joined by "Mother Foote and Aunt Hazel."
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Carter Mine and Golden Islet Mine, Gunnison County, Colorado (ca.1931)
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A collection of photographs and maps compiled by American geologist and petroleum engineer Ralph Arnold (1875-1961), documenting his pioneering work in oil and mineral exploration, chiefly in the Western United States, Mexico and Venezuela, from 1900 to 1954. The collection centers on 64 photograph albums that span 50 years of Arnold's life and work. Photographs are accompanied by Arnold's typed captions identifying geological features; oil and mining activities; technical data; and dates and locations, i.e. often an oil or mining "district" or "field," such as "Sunset Field" (California). Subject matter includes geological and topographical features such as rock formations, faults and schisms, mountain structure, geothermal activity, and open land with potential drilling or mining spots. Earthquake faults are seen and described in many of Arnold's California investigations. There are also views of small and large-scale oil operations (by individuals and by organized companies); details of oil flow and reservoirs; asphalt; drilling equipment; workers and fields of oil wells. Arnold's work took him all over the Western United States, particularly California oil fields, but also Texas, Wyoming, Arizona, Alaska and other states. From 1911-1916 he was primarily in South America, and in the 1920s-1940s, mostly in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Mining operations are the focus of some albums, showing investigations for tin, gold and other minerals; mines and ore processing, all with detailed descriptions. Arnold also often photographed people: colleagues and business associates, oil lease owners on their properties; workers (particularly Black and Asian workers in Venezuela); and friends and family. Personal photographs are throughout the album, such as of his wife, Winninette, and their two daughters; Stokes family members (Winninette's family) in South Pasadena; and alumni of Pasadena High School and Stanford University. Arnold was an avid gardener and the albums contain detail views of cactus and tropical plants, and scenes of Arnold collecting wild orchids in Trinidad, Venezuela and Mexico. The maps date from 1880-1948 and include U.S.G.S. and geological maps, California oil fields and well locations; layouts of mines, and various tract maps showing oil company-owned land.
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