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Photographs: Davidson's Views of the Pacific Northwest
- Description
- A series of 27 photographs of scenes along the Northern Pacific Railroad's Pend d'Oreille Division and Clark's Fork Division in Oregon, as well as scenes on the lines of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. along the Columbia River. Included are views of the workers along the line, a survey team, the camp tents holding the hospital, camp mess tents, a druggist, and a blacksmith shop. The card photographs are boudoir size, 8.25 x 5 inches, and "Davidson's Views of the Pacific Northwest" is printed on the verso of the mounts. Photographs: Group portrait of men, women, and a child; men with surveying equipment in group portrait; hospital tent with injured men on cots; mess hall tents with tin plates and coffee pitchers displayed; men and women in front of a druggist's tent with medicinal bottles and jars on shelves inside; "Blacksmith Shop of Construction Department, Clark's Fork Division, N.P.R.R."; "No. 26. Block House, Upper Cascades, Columbia River"; "No. 49 Multnomah Falls, Columbia River"; "No. 50 Castle Rock, Columbia River"; "No. 71 View from Block House"; "No. 73 Hallett's Hades--O.R. & N. Co."; "No. 77 Upper Cascades, Columbia River, from Espy's Painting"; "No. 83 Bird's eye view of Fort Coeur d'Alene and the lake, Idaho"; "No. 87 Clark's Fork Crossing, three miles above its mouth, N.P.R.R."; "No. 88 North Cabinet, N.P.R.R."; "No. 89 South Cabinet, N.P.R.R."; "No. 90 Big Rock Cut, one mile above Cabinet, N.P.R.R."; "No. 91 View from Cabinet Rapids down Clark's Fork, Columbia River"; "No. 92 View at lower end of Cabinet Rapids, Clark's Fork"; "No. 93 Cabinet Gorge, Clark's River, looking upstream"; "No. 94 Cabinet Gorge, Clark's River, looking downstream"; "No. 95 Looking out upstream from Cabinet Gorge"; "No. 96 Head of Cabinet Rapids"; "No. 97 Big Grade, N.P.R.R. at head of Cabinet Rapids"; "No. 98 Elk Creek Camp on N.P.R.R."; "No. 99 Grading on Big Bluff, three miles above Heron's Rapids, Clark's Fork"; view of a surveyor and stream.
- Production date
- approximately 1878.
- Call number
- photCL 427
- Provenance
- Purchased from Carl Mautz Publishing, 1999.
- Restrictions
- Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
- Rights
- The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
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