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Ansel Adams at Museum of Modern Art, New York City

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Description: Portrait of photographer Ansel Adams in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, at the 1979 exhibition "Ansel Adams and the West." Adams stands with arms folded, facing the camera and standing next to his photograph, "Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite." The exhibition title is on wall above photograph.
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Production date: negative 1979.
Call number: photPF 26002
Creator: Sexton, John (1953-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Ken Karagozian, August 2019. This photograph was given to photographer Ray McSavaney by John Sexton in 1982.
Dimensions: 14 x 19 cm (5 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
Associated people: McSavaney, Ray,

Ansel Adams photographs of Bridalveil Fall and El Capitan, Yosemite

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Two 8 x 10-inch photographs on 11 x 17-inch mounts from Ansel Adams' "Special Edition Photographs of Yosemite" series. Both have stamps on the back that include titles: Bridalveil Fall and El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California, and are initialed by Adams on the mount. This series of photographs was selected by Adams to be sold through his wife's business, Best's Studio in Yosemite. They were printed from Adams' original negatives by his studio assistants beginning in 1958.

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Ansel Adams photograph reproduced on a Hills Bros. coffee can

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This collection consists of two items: A Hills Brothers coffee can with a wraparound image of Ansel Adams' "Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley, California" and a flat version of the same image, on tin, before it was shaped into a can. The can has the original plastic lid with the Hills Bros. name and logo. The coffee cans were made in 1969 in a collaboration between Adams and Hills Bros. Coffee Company. The company licensed Adams' photograph "Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley" to reproduce on its three-pound coffee cans, and sold them in a limited edition.

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The Story of my Boyhood and Youth and A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)

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Manuscript specimen Fragment from a draft of chapter 7, page 159: "not subject to floods have been dammed at short intervals by the fall of trees. Some of the most delightful emerald moss bogs to be found in the entire Sierra originate in this way." Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 148): Outlet of Muir's Lake • Facing page 16: Ruins of Dunbar Castle. [From a painting by C. Stanchfield, R.A.] • Facing page 50: A Wisconsin Landscape, on the way to Fountain Lake. • Facing page 58: A Nighthawk's Nest. • Facing page 62: A Passing Thunder-Storm. [On the Hickory Hill Farm] • Facing page 66: West Bank, by Fountain Lake. • Facing page 94: A Boat on Fountain Lake. • Facing page 96: Pasque-Flowers. • Facing page 100: Huckleberries. • Facing page 104: Lake Mendota, Wisconsin. • Facing page 114: The Broad Fox River Meadows. • Facing page 142: A Muskrat Cabin. • Facing page 148b: A Mountain Marmot. • Facing page 164: Ice-coated Trees. • Facing page 180: Hickory Hill Farm. • Facing page 186: The Hickory Hill Ridge. • Facing page 216: Clipping from the Wisconsin State Journal of Sept. 26, 1860, containing a reference to John Muir's clocks. • Facing page 222: North Dormitory, University of Wisconsin. [Mr. Muir's room was the corner room on the ground floor] • Facing page 254: Entrance to Mammoth Cave. • Facing page 270: The Clinch River, Tennessee. • Facing page 290: A Southern Pine. • Facing page 300: A Moss-draped Pine. • Facing page 316: The Unfamiliar Florida Coast. • Facing page 336: A Palm Landscape. • Facing page 350: Flower-Spike and Leaves of the Spanish Bayonet. • Facing page 354: Lime Key, off the Coast at Cedar Keys.

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Steep Trails: California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, The Grand Cañon by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)

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Manuscript specimen Fragment of page 6 from a draft of chapter 7, pages 145-146 (note: this fragment directly leads from the fragment tipped into volume 4 of this set): "a forest that stretches away indefinitely before you seemingly unbroken by openings of any kind. As soon as you enter the woods, the gray mountain peaks are lost to view. The ground is littered with fallen trunks that lie crossed + recrossed like storm-lodged wheat, + besides the crop of pines, the rich soil composed of outspread moraines, supports a" Added images • Facing page (same image as facing 358b): O'Neill's Point, Grand Canyon • Facing page 26: Mt. Watkins, from Mirror Lake. • Facing page 28: From the Summit of Cloud's Rest, toward Tissiack (Half Dome). • Facing page 46: Mt. Shasta. • Facing page 54: Mt. Lassen in Eruption. • Facing page 84: Mt. Shasta from the North. • Facing page 86: Muir's Peak, from Stewart Lake. • Facing page 118: A Salt Lake Sunset. • Facing page 128: Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum). • Facing page 136: San Gabriel Valley. • Facing page 152: Big-Cone Spruces Douglasii macrocarpa). • Facing page 162: An Artesian Well. [Part of the water supply of the city of Ogden, Utah] • Facing page 168: Nut Pine (Pinus monophylla). • Facing page 176: Fox-Tail Pines. • Facing page 206: A Scene in Puget Sound. • Facing page 210: Mount Baker. • Facing page 230: A Giant Western Arbor-Vitae. • Facing page 258: Snoqualmie Fall. • Facing page 264: Mt. Rainier, from Cloud Camp. • Facing page 292: Mt. Hood, Oregon, from Cloud Cap Inn. • Facing page 330: The Columbia Lakes, source of the Columbia River, in Windermere Valley, B.C. • Facing page 340: Cape Horn, Columbia River. • Facing page 344: Crater Lake. • Facing page 348: The Grand Canyon, - Cliffs at Grand View. • Facing page 358: Across the Grand Canyon from "Thor's Hammer." • Facing page 372: A nut Pine on the Rim of the Grand Canyon.

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The Life and Letters of John Muir: Volume I by William Frederic Badè (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)

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Manuscript specimen Fragment of page 11 from a draft of chapter 7, page 149: "leaf + flower seems to have its winged representative overhead. Dragonflies soot in vigorous zigzags through the dancing swarms + a rich profusion of butterflies - the leguminosae of the insect kingdom make a fine addition to the general showy plants. Many of these at this elevation are a comparatively small + as yet but little known." Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 180): Sycamores on the San Felipe • Facing page 50: Hickories and Oaks on the Hickory Hill Farm. [1915] • Facing page 98: Bluffs along the Mississippi at McGregor, Iowa. • Facing page 102: The Wisconsin River at Portage, Wis. • Facing page 112: Across Lake Mendota toward the Buildings of the University of Wisconsin. [1915] • Facing page 158: The Meadow at Fountain Lake. [1915] • Facing page 170: The Hodgson Garden at Cedar Keys. [From an old photograph taken in 1867] • Facing page 178: An Orchard in Santa Clara Valley. • Facing page 182: Calochortus (Mariposa Tulip). • Facing page 198: Mt. Hoffman from Lake Tenaya. • Facing page 204: Yosemite Valley in Winter. • Facing page 230: The Glacier on Mt. Lyell. • Facing page 232: The Brown Cone of Mt. Dana. • Facing page 260: Emerson's House at Concord, Mass. • Facing page 298: Lake Tenaya, looking south. • Facing page 310: Hetch Hetchy Valley. • Facing page 326: An Earthquake Talus at the Foot of El Capitan, Yosemite Valley. • Facing page 328: The Upper Yosemite Fall. • Facing page 336: Sentinel Rock. • Facing page 340: "Bossy Cumuli" in the Sierra. • Facing page 364: The Royal Arches. [From near the point where Mr. Muir built his cabin in 1872] • Facing page 368: Sierra Primrose (Primula suffrutescens) on the summit of Clouds' Rest. • Facing page 380: Lewisia pygmaea (Alpine Bitter-root). • Facing page 388: Across the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin. • Facing page 392: In the Kern River Canyon. • Facing page 396: In the Great Tuolumne Canyon. • Facing page 398: Portrait of Mr. Muir in 1873.

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A New Map of the English Empire in America viz Virginia, New York [etc.] by Rob Morden

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Kashnor notes, "The rare first issue of this map." Kashnor dates as ca. 1685. Submaps. MS notes along right border describe British troop movements during War of 1812, as follows. "Sept 3, 1814. Capt. Barrie of the Dragon destroyed the Adams frigate of the rebels at Hamden on the Penobscot River - assisted by troops detached by Sir J. C. Therburt (?) Lt. Genl. August 25th 1814- Adm. Sir Alan Cockrane's fleet having entered the Bay of the Chesapeake some days before, Lt. Genl. Rob. Ross being landed at the Petuxent at Benedict on the 19th moved on Washington with less than 2000 men. On the 24th met the American Army of 8000 posted (...) behind Bladensburg - attacked and immediately overthrew it and entered Washington at 8 oclock PM. During the night and the next day, destroyed every public building. Commenced his return again in the evening of the 29th safely on board this fleet from Benedict on the 30th. Destroyed Senate House, House of Representatives, War Office, Treasury, Presidential Palace, Dock Yard, Arsenal, a new frigate, sloop of War, two laye rope walks, every public store, 206 cannons, 20,000 stands of arms." See also 105:542M for a later edition of this map. Cartouche surmounted by Royal Coat of Arms. Submaps: The Harbour of Boston or Massachusetts Bay; A General map of the Coasts and Isles of Europe, Africa, and America. "I. Harris sculp:" MS note: 39 (upper right). Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-mapsCartouche. References: Tooley (Amer) p.63, #20.

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Ansel Adams at Museum of Modern Art, New York City

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