Visual Materials
The Arizonian, views of Arizona and the Colorado River
- Description
- This collection contains 24 albumen photographs by Charles Granville Johnson of Arizona river steamboats and shipyards on the Colorado River and Native Americans, pasted on three boards, each titled "The Arizonian, : Views of Arizona and the Colorado River." The photographs are arranged 8 to a board and primarily juxtapose 4.5 x 7 inch views of river steamboats and shipyards with 2.5 x 3.5 inch portraits of Native Americans of various Arizona tribes in traditional dress. Each photograph has its own handwritten caption within a printed frame; the title and image frames are lithographed.
- Production date
- 1868.
- Call number
- photOV 11398-11400
- Provenance
- Purchased for the Huntington by the Library Collectors' Council, February 1998.
