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Views of Trail, British Columbia

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Description: A collection of seven cabinet card photographs of the town of Trail on the Columbia River in British Columbia. Includes views of Trail Creek Landing, an elevated view of the town, street scenes with storefronts including signs for the Arlington Hotel and Kaake & Williams, a sternwheeler steamboat unloading passengers, and the smelter at Trail Creek Landing. Also included is a photographic postcard of the Light House, Pelee Island, Canada, dated 1910.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1900-approximately 1910
Call number: photCL 142
Provenance: Gift of Ms. and Mrs. Erik Pointer, September 1964.
Dimensions: images 10 x 14 cm, mounts 11 x 17 cm +

Birdseye view of Victoria, B.C. [British Columbia]

Visual Materials

The 122 prints depict Alaskan nature scenes, some Native American totems, and a variety of scenic views in the western United States. These photographs were taken circa 1890s. The collection is particularly strong in images of Caucasian tourists; Salt Lake City, Utah; Manitou Springs and Colorado Springs, Colorado; Wrangell, Alaska; Sitka, Alaska; Alaskan natives; glaciers; British Columbia health resorts; and Western railway lines. Brigham Young, a leader of the Mormon Church, is listed as a personal name index term because a photograph of his grave is included in this collection.

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See more along the Chevron trail : [a full set of colorful scenic view prints]

Rare Books

A set of full-color scenic view prints of the beauty of the west along the Chevron trail. The set was a promotional give-away at Chevron stations with a new print available each of the twelve week from May 28-August 13 covering the west U.S. states including Alaska and Hawaii and British Columbia.

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British Columbia, undated

Manuscripts

Correspondence and other papers of Warren Lee Rogers and Clinton Clarke dealing with the Pacific Crest Trail. Included are Clarke's publications, the Y-Relays correspondence, photographs, radio scripts, participants' surveys and transcribed portions of the log book; the PCT registers and hikers' correspondence, maps, visitor guides and brochures of national forests and parks in Washington, Oregon, California and elsewhere. Correspondents include Ansel Adams, Hanson W. Baldwin, Devereux Butcher, Oscar L. Chapman, Ernest A. Dench, Newton Bishop Drury, Roland C. Geist, Francis P. Farquar.

Series 4a: Rogers' Businesses: Maps, guides

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Grenville Channel, BC [British Columbia]

Visual Materials

The 54 prints in this collection depict Alaskan nature scenes, various views of town life (mainly in Sitka), and some Native American totems; these photographs were made ca. 1892. This collection provides insight into the Alaskan environment just before the Klondike Gold Rush. The collection is particularly strong in images of Muir Glacier and the cities of Sitka and Wrangell ca. 1892. In addition to images of these places, the collection includes images of Alaskan Natives; Alaskan Native totem poles; Killisnoo, Alaska; the Native American community of Kasaan, Alaska; the steamboat Star Queen; various glaciers; and Treadmill Mill and Mine at Douglas Island.

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Columbia, southern mines, California

Visual Materials

A two-color lithograph depicting a view of Columbia in Tuolumne County, California set during the Gold Rush. The foreground of the central image includes factories, a horse-drawn wagon driving across town, and miners working in flumes, depicted against a view of town buildings with hilly landscape in the background. Twelve vignettes of building facades surround the central image; includes views of storefronts, churches, government buildings, hotels, and banks. Townsfolk and individuals on horses and horse-drawn wagons are illustrated in front of the building facades. The title is printed in the lower center of the image. The text below the title reads, "Published by Towle & Leavitt. Columbia, Tuolumne County, Cal." Printed signatures on the lower half of print from left to right read, "From nature on stone by Kuchel & Dresel, 146 Clay St. S.F."; "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by Kuchel & Dresel in the Clerk's Office of District Court of the Northern District of Cal."; and "Printed by Britton & Rey."

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British Columbia

Visual Materials

This collection contains approximately 10,000 photographs, negatives and ephemera created or compiled by Grace Nicholson (1877-1948), a collector and dealer of Native American and Asian arts and crafts in Pasadena, California. The bulk of the collection dates from 1903 to the 1920s and includes photograph albums and individual photographs with views of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, California, and the Southwest of North America; pictures documenting Nicholson's basket collecting trips primarily between 1902 and 1912; images of Nicholson's stores and residences in Pasadena, including the building of the "Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" in the mid-1920s; and personal photographs of Nicholson, her family, friends, and associates. Nicholson's personal snapshots and photograph albums provide a valuable resource for studying Native American communities, particularly in Northern California, in the early 20th century. Many of the photographs depict daily life and include images of homes, community events, dances and rituals, families and children, and portraits. Most of these photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson or her assistant, Mr. Carroll S. Hartman, and are often accompanied by Nicholson's handwritten identifications.

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Views of Trail, British Columbia

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