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Photographic travel album of United States scenery

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Description: A small, personal photograph album of primarily nature scenes in South Dakota, Washington, Alaska, Maine, and one view of Seal Rocks, San Francisco, California. The photographs are accompanied by handwritten captions that include lines of verse about nature from American poets William Cullen Bryant, W. P. Foster and possibly others. Photographs include waterfalls, ocean coast lines, lakes, and mountains, with only occasional views of people, who are unidentified. There are three panoramic bird's-eye-views of the towns of Wrangell and Skagway, Alaska.
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Production date: approximately 1901
Call number: photCL 339
Provenance: Provenance unknown, in library.
Dimensions: volume 16 x 25 cm

Photograph Album

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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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Album of photographs and postcards of Western United States trip

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An album with 117 photographs and 129 postcards chronicling an unidentified family's trip to the American West starting from Chicago, Illinois, on July 19, 1917. The images are chiefly snapshots and color lithographic postcards.The images follow the family's progress from Illinois to Missouri, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Canada, and Alaska. Includes photographs of the family on the steps in from of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; postcards of Kansas City, Missouri; photographs and postcards of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Grand Canyon, Arizona; California, particularly Santa Catalina Island, Coronado Beach, San Diego, Riverside (especially the Mission Inn), Long Beach, Santa Barbara, the Yosemite Valley, and San Francisco; Oregon, including Portland, the Columbia River, and Bayocean; Seattle, Washington; Canada, including Victoria, Vancouver, Alert Bay, and Prince Rupert, in British Columbia; a train ride on the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway through the Rockies; Lake Louise, Banff, and Alberta, in the province of Alberta; Alaska, including totem poles, Wrangell, Taku Glacier, Juneau, and Skagway. There are several photographs of the family's modes of transportation, including automobiles, steamboats (especially the "Princess Alice"), and trains. The postcards are issued by Fred Harvey, Frank H. Nowell, Louis H. Pederson (L.H.P.), Cross & Dimmitt, George Weister, and Fred Button.

photCL 165

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Photographic Travel Album of the Southern and Western United States

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This personal album features artistically-composed photographs of often-visited sights and scenery from Louisiana to the Western United States. The photographs were taken by an unknown photographer, and were beautifully printed and mounted, with hand-lettered ink captions. Thirty-six of the forty-nine photographs are of California cities, landmarks or landscapes, but there are also views of New Orleans, Texas, and Arizona. This collection includes photographs of Missions San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano; San Fernando, Santa Barbara, San Miguel, and Carmel; Chinatown in San Francisco; Golden Gate Park; Mt. Tamalpais; Hotel Potter in Santa Barbara; Los Angeles; Long Beach; Avalon Bay in Santa Catalina Island; Riverside, California; Ocean Park; and Rancho Camulos. Of note are two photos at the Santa Barbara Mission that include clergy posed in the scenes. Other California locations include Redlands, Riverside and city scenes in San Francisco. There are views of buildings in New Orleans; the Alamo (San Antonio, Texas); San Xavier Mission (Texas); the ruins of Casa Grande (Arizona); and landscapes of Texas and Arizona. This album was probably owned by "C. W. Hornick," whose name is engraved on the album's front cover; he may also be the photographer. Item titles transcribed from written captions for each photograph.

photCL 230

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Bear Totem. Wrangle [Wrangell] [Alaska]. [Loose photo found at back of album. Photographer unknown]

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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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Photograph Album of the Cruise of the Revenue Cutter "Corwin" in Alaska

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An album of 36 photographs made during the Arctic voyage of the USRC Thomas Corwin in 1881, and possibly 1883. Views include Inuit villages, homes and inhabitants in Alaska (Fort Wrangell, Sitka, St. Michael, and King's Island) and coastal Siberia; harbors and scenery; a Greek church interior; fur traders and seal hunting; and portraits taken aboard ship.

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Photograph albums of travel in the United States and Canada and life in Los Angeles

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Two photographs albums of amateur photographs with one depicting a trip from Arizona to the East Coast in 1907, and the second showing images of a family in Los Angeles, California, in the early 1920s. The first volume contains 75 snapshots documenting a trip beginning on July 11, 1907, from O'Neill's Point at the Grand Canyon, Arizona, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, Santa Barbara, Yosemite Valley, San Francisco, Alaska, British Columbia, Banff in Canada, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the St. Lawrence River, and ending with photographs at Mt. Washington in August 1908. Each location is only represented by a few photographs, often depicting travel, the natural scenery including moutnains, glaciers, and big trees, and buildings such as hotels; there is one photograph of the ruins of the San Francisco city hall after the 1906 earthquake. The album has a handwritten title page: "Bess H. Specht. 1907. 133 Carver Street, East End. Pittsburgh, Pa." The photographs are captioned, including one that identifies the trip participants as: Alice Lyle, J.C. McCormick, Anna Bell, Bess Specht, Carrie Alston, Dell. Smith, and May Lyle. There are also five photographs of an infant labeled Taylor Salsgiver. The second volume, by an unidentified compiler, has 77 snapshots showing children and family members, activities, and residences in Los Angeles, California, ca. 1920-1921. There are views of neighborhoods, including houses at 2102 Third Avenue, at the corner of South St. Andrews Place and West 16th (now Venice Blvd.) and 1626 5th Ave. in Los Angeles, Catalina Island, Bimini Baths, the Japanese Gardens, and Venice among others. A 1923 school play program and three copies of the 1925 Los Angeles High School Commencement program are laid in at back. Many of the photographed are captioned with dates and brief labels in pen.

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Photographic travel album of United States scenery

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