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Travel album including Yosemite, New England, and Yellowstone
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Yosemite travel album
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A travel album of snapshots and reminiscences in typescript pages documenting the camping trip of eight young women and men through Yosemite in 1909. The majority of snapshots are accompanied by captions in a contemporary hand. Views include the iconic Yosemite waterfalls, redwood trees, and geologic features, and show the group hiking, relaxing, riding burros, and cooking at the campground. The album begins with a two-page whimsical poem titled "To Yosemite" about preparing for the trip, and is signed Renette Felt. The back of the album has a nine-page typescript travelogue titled "Snapshots About Camp" (unsigned; presumably by Felt), followed by a three-page typescript titled "A Knocker's View of the Yosemite Trip or a Few Bum Jokes," signed by William H. Hughes, one of the travelers.
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Album of photographs of a trip in the American West and Lake Mohonk, New York
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An album with 58 commercial photographs of various scenic locations in the American West and New York, chiefly containing 1-2 images per page. Locations consist of: Colorado (pages 1-8); Utah (pages 9-11); California including Lake Tahoe (page 12), San Francisco including Chinatown (page 13); Oakland (page 14), Berkeley (page 15), the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, California (page 16); Geyser Canyon in Sonoma County (page 17), Yosemite (pages 19-27), and Mariposa Grove (pages 28-29); the mountains of Mount Shasta and Mount Tacoma (page 30) and Mount Hood (page 31); Yellowstone (pages 32-40); and Mohonk Lake, New York (pages 41-46). Views of Yosemite show El Capitan, Cathedral Spires, Royal Arches, Mirror Lake, Bridal Veil Falls, Vernal Falls, Nevada Falls, and Glacier Point. Views of Yellowstone show Mammoth Springs Hotel, Minerva Terrace, Golden Gate Canyon, Obsidian Cliffs, Hell's Half Acre, Morning Glory Spring, Old Faithful, Splendid Geyser, Sulphur Mountain, Lower Falls, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon Hotel. Views in Colorado include Manitou Springs, the Garden of the Gods, Denver, Georgetown, Curecanti Needle, and the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas. Most of the Utah photographs are the work of C. R. Savage, some of the Colorado photographs are by William Henry Jackson, some of the Yellowstone photographs are by F. Jay Haynes, the Oregon photographs are by Isaac Grundy Davidson, the Tahoe Photographs are by R. J. Waters, and most of the rest are by I. W. Taber.
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Scenes in Yosemite photograph album
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1 photograph album containing 13 black-and-white photographs of landscapes in Yosemite Valley, California, taken by photographer Carleton Watkins in the 1870s. The images focus on the natural scenery including mountains, waterfalls, and trees. Each photograph is labeled with a typed caption pasted to the album page.
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Photograph album of Yosemite Valley
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An album with 48 commercial views by an unknown photographer of Yosemite National Park, including El Capitan, Glacier Point, and several waterfalls. Buildings shown include Black's Hotel, Casa Nevada, Cosmopolitan Bath House, Rock Cottage, and the Sunday School Chapel.
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New England hydroelectric dam construction photograph album
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A photograph album documenting the large-scale construction of New England hydroelectric dams in New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Maine, including several photographs of the Wyman Dam construction in Bingham, Maine, dated 1929-1930, and Ayer's Island Dam in Bristol, New Hampshire. The images include both commercial and amateur photographs depicting progress on the dams, construction sites, and power facilities, with many group portraits of workers. Some of the photographs have dates and captions written on the negatives.
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Album of photographs illustrating report of the special commission for the improvement of the Yosemite National Park, 1900, and Photograph Album of Gov. Henry T. Gage and Park Commission visit to Yosemite
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Two albums of photographs related to Yosemite National Park from approximately 1900. The first album was prepared to accompany "Report of the Commission on Roads in Yosemite National Park, California", 56th Congress, 1st Session, Sen. Doc. No. 155, printed 1900, and presented to California governor Henry T. Gage. This presentation album includes a printed title page and a three page printed list of the images in the volume. It contains 168 photographs, which include Yosemite scenic views, but also lesser-seen roads and bridges; officer's camps; cabins; "Carlin's Rancho" with people tending livestock; Thomas Hill's art studio at Wawona (exterior); and Sentinel Hotel. A few people appear, most notably Col. Samuel M. Mansfield, Engineer; Capt. H. C. Benson, Fourth Cavalry; J. L. Maude, California Highway Commissioner; California Congressman Marion De Vries visiting the Park, 1897. The back of the album has several examples of well-made roads and bridges in Russia, Norway and Switzerland. The second volume is a personal album of photographs once owned by Governor Gage with amateur photographs chronicling a large group traveling through Yosemite, that includes Gage and unidentified others.
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