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Photograph album of Western United States and New York State

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Description: An album with 66 photographs of various locations in New York State and the Western United States, including California, Washington, Texas, and Arizona. Images of New York include the New York City harbor, Battery Park, the Flatiron Building, Thousand Islands, the town of Clayton, and the city of Ogdensburg. Views of the Western states include street scenes in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; the Cascade Range of mountains; an "Indian Fair" in the city of Toppenish and other places in the Yakama (also spelled Yakima) Indian Reservation in Washington; the city of San Antonio in Texas; and the Mojave Desert in Arizona. There are also single views of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Northern Pacific Railway, and New Orleans.
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Production date: approximately 1910
Call number: photCL 71
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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.

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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.

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

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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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Photograph album of automobile road trips across the United States and into Mexico

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An album of 296 snapshot photographs documenting two excursions by automobile across the United States and into Mexico in the late 1930s by a group of young men who appear to have been students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts. The first trip, in July and August of 1937, includes numerous scenes in Washington, D.C., Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Wyoming, and New York. Their travels involved stops at the Tennessee Valley Authority power station at Muscle Shoals, Alabama; Carlsbad Caverns National Park; Grand Canyon National Park; Boulder Dam; Death Valley; Sequoia and Yosemite national parks; Yellowstone National Park; and Niagara Falls. In Mexico, they toured the capital and saw a bullfight. The majority of photographs have handwritten captions in white pencil describing locations. Other images depict collegiate sports, including track and golf, and some mountain climbing. Another western excursion in 1938 includes visits to the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas, Colorado locations, and another visit to Yosemite National Park. The remaining photographs consist of views of the WPI campus, the destructive impact of the 1938 New England hurricane, and stops at unidentified hydroelectric engineering sites.

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Photograph album of New York City during centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration

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An album of 22 photographs of New York City street scenes and landmarks during the 1889 centennial celebration of the inauguration of President George Washington. Images include City Hall, Old Federal Hall, and Hanover Bank festooned with American flags and bunting; a naval parade on the East River; cannons in Battery Park; Central Park; and William Street. Also seen is the temporary, wooden Washington Arch in Washington Square, erected in 1889 with private funds to commemorate Washington's inauguration centennial. It was replaced with a permanent marble structure designed by Stanford White in 1892. The album has the bookplate of J. Foster Flagg, and handwritten captions. The photographs are not credited.

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Photograph album of Western United States and New York State

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