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Album of Western views

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Description: A collection of 45 photographs depicting the Western United States compiled by Samuel S. Durfee, showing both natural and man-made attractions in California, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, and Colorado. Photographs include Mt. Shasta in California, the Grand Canyon in Arizona, and Pike's Peak and Garden of the Gods in Colorado. City scenes include Chinatown and other areas in San Francisco and the interior of the Tabernacle and Joseph Smith's grave in Salt Lake City. Some of the photographers are identified, including I.W. Taber, C.R. Savage, and William Henry Jackson (W.H. Jackson & Co.).
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1880s
Call number: photCL 92
Provenance: Purchased from Edward Morrill & Son Books, August 1956.
Dimensions: images 11 x 17 cm-20 x 24 cm, sheets 27 x 35 cm
Associated people: Taber, I. W. (1830-1912,)

Photograph album of Western United States and New York State

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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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Album C

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This album contains 623 photographs taken in 1911 and 1912 in Arizona, California, and New Mexico. Notably, the album includes a photograph of Hopi potter Nampeyo. All of the photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson and Carroll S. Hartman. Tribes represented : Hopi; Hupa; Karok; Maidu; Miwok; Mojave [i.e. Mohave]; Paiute; Pueblo Indians of Santo Domingo, Isleta, San Juan, Laguna, Acoma; Shasta; Yokuts; Yurok.

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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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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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Photograph Album of Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Other City Views

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This disbound album contains 59 photographs consisting mostly of commercial views of cities and miscellaneous subjects, dating from circa 1870s-1880s, including images of Mormon figureheads, Salt Lake City, Utah; city scenes of San Francisco; and some views of Native Americans of the Southwest and Great Plains. Also included are posed photographs of Japanese women and men in traditional dress. Photographs of Utah depict Mormon leader Brigham Young; third president of the Mormon Church John Taylor; Salt Lake City; Gardo House; the Mormon Tabernacle; and Paiute Indians being baptized into the Mormon faith by Mormon men. California photographs show Yosemite; the Sierra Nevadas; Oakland; city scenes of San Francisco; and the mansions of Mark Hopkins, George Crocker, Collis P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford. Other photographs are of Paiute Indians, Navajo Indians, Pueblo Indians, Bannock Indians, Niagara Falls, Union Square and Central Park in New York City, and the Central Pacific Railroad. Also included are hand-colored photographs of Japanese women and men in posed scenarios, some with musical instruments. It is unclear whether these photographs were taken in the United States or in Japan. Photographers who contributed to this collection include Alfred A. Hart, B.A. Hawkins, J. Notman, Charles Roscoe Savage, and Isaiah West Taber.

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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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Album of Western views

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