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[Photograph album of a trip through the western and southern United States]

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Description: Photograph album chiefly containing amateur snapshots possibly taken by Elon L. Yeomans of Wayne County, New York, from travels through the Western and Southern Unites States, and Quebec, Canada, dating from the early 1900s. The images primarily depict scenic views of natural landscapes and other tourist destinations and landmarks from locations in Colorado (including Grand Junction); California (including Riverside, Los Angeles, Catalina Island, Mount Lowe in the San Gabriel Mountains, Santa Barbara including the Santa Barbara Mission, Pacific Grove, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco); Mount Shasta; the Columbia River; Seattle, Washington; Mammoth Hot Springs; Yellowstone; Quebec, Canada, and the Saguenay River; Charleston, South Carolina; Savannah, Georgia; and Florida. Most of the photographs have handwritten captions identifying the locations depicted.
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Production date: approximately 1900s.
Call number: photCL 381
Creator: Yeomans, Elon (1850-1927)

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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Photograph album of a trip through the southwestern United States with Colonel Henry Hall

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An album containing newspaper clippings and 118 photographs chronicling a trip across the southwestern United States by Pittsburg Times correspondent Colonel Henry Hall and Richard C. Hall of Bedford, Pennsylvania. The trip began April 1, 1903, and included Indian and Oklahoma Territories; Texas; New Mexico Territory; Arizona Territory; and Juarez, Mexico. Locations are described in newspaper articles with Henry Hall's byline alongside illustrative snapshots (and a few pieces of printed ephemera) taken during the trip. Some photographs depict Henry Hall as well as agriculture and irrigation (including artesian wells), cowboys, Native Americans, buffaloes, cattle, horseback riders, street scenes, local citizens and their residences, and scenic views. Locations visited in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories include Muskogee, Oklahoma City, Okmusgee(?), Guthrie, and Lawton. Locations visited in Texas include Quanah, Childress, Goodnight, Amarillo, and El Paso. Locations visited in the New Mexico Territory include Roswell, Carlsbad, Isleta, Pecos and the Pecos River, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and pueblos at Taos. Locations visited in Arizona include an ostrich farm in Phoenix and the Grand Canyon. There are also a few photographs of Juarez, Mexico, showing the customs house, plaza, and church. There are several photographs of Santa Fe by commercial photographer, Christian G. Kaadt (1868-1905). Two articles concern the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri; several articles consider Indian affairs aw well as the issue of statehood for Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona.

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Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Henry Family photograph album, (bulk 1916-1918)

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The album, one of three depicting the Henry Family of Los Angeles, California, contains 377 photographs, primarily group portraits of the Henry family and unidentified individuals, taken on trips and outings to a variety of locations in California (Avalon and Santa Catalina Island; Ramona's marriage place [Estudillo house], Hotel del Coronado and the Panama-California Exposition, in San Diego; La Jolla; Mount Lowe; Ocean Park; Big Tujunga Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains; Sunset Beach; Little Bear Lake; Big Bear Lake; Balboa; Mount Wilson; Yosemite; Tuolumne Meadows; Tioga Pass; Tenaya Lake; Mount Rubidoux in Riverside; and Lake Tahoe) and Quebec, Canada. There are many photographs of Alexander Ellwood Henry (1890-1979) and his parents Jessie Henry and Thomas B. Henry vacationing and at their house at 1400 S. Manhattan Place, Los Angeles.

photCL 400 volume 19

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Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Scenes of California, the Western United States and Canada Photograph Album

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This photograph album contains various size snapshots depicting scenes in California, including the exterior of the Hollywood residence of artist Paul de Longpre, Santa Monica, Venice, Riverside, Redlands, orange groves, Golden Gate Park, Sausalito, and the University of California, Berkeley; Victoria, British Columbia; ranching activities; mining camps; Montana; and the Yellowstone River.

photCL 400 volume 11

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Photograph album of views of Southern California, the Southwest, and Mexico

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One disbound photograph album, 74 pages, with approximately 230 prints depicting chiefly Southern California locations and gold mining country in Northern Mexico, taken by various photographers including C. P. Warden and Company (Los Angeles), Graham Photo Company (Los Angeles), Richard H. Kindig, Norman H. Reed (Santa Barbara), Pillsbury (Los Angeles), Gray, and unidentified photographers.

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