The Taber photographic album of principal business houses, residences & persons
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Taber photographs mounted on pages of advertisements for San Francisco businesses. Most of the photographs depict the outside of the business building.
Description:
Mrs. W. P. Rutherford poses with her custom made corsets.
Publisher:
I. W. Taber
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.) --Buildings, structures, etc and San Francisco (Calif.) --Commerce
The Taber photographic album of principal business houses, residences & persons
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Taber photographs mounted on pages of advertisements for San Francisco businesses. Most of the photographs depict the outside of the business building.
Publisher:
I. W. Taber
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.) --Buildings, structures, etc and San Francisco (Calif.) --Commerce
"Souvenir of our trip to Alaska on the Ancon. Sept. 1885." on cover of album. Photograph album of a trip to Alaska on the Steamship "Ancon" in September, 1885, containing commercial views of Glacier Bay, Sitka, Harrisburg, Kassan Bay, Holcolmb Bay, an Ind
Album of photographs created by Frederick Hastings Chapin, a pharmacist and mountaineer from Hartford, Connecticut, documenting the cliff-dwellings and ruins at the Mancos Site and Mesa Verde in Montezuma County, Colorado, during the summers of 1889 and 1890. Images include detailed views of the cliff houses and other structures in Mancos Canyon, Cliff Canyon, and a branch of Johnson Canyon known as Acowitz Canyon. Other images include views of the La Plata Mountains and other geological formations in the area, contemporary American Indian wickiups made by Ute Indians, and the ranch of Richard Wetherill, a local homesteader who uncovered the Mancos Site in December 1888. Identified individuals in images include Richard Wetherill cinching the loads on packhorses, his brother John Wetherill, looking through the window of a granary, and a man wearing jodhpurs and high boots identified as probably Chapin.
Description:
Individual photographs measure 11.6 x 18.1 cm., Manuscript captions in ink at bottom of each photograph., Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2004., Spine title: Mancos Canon., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Cliff Canyon (Colo.)--Pictorial works., Johnson Canyon (Colo.)--Pictorial works, La Plata Mountains--Pictorial works, Mancos Canyon (Colo.)--Pictorial works, Mancos Site (Colo.)--Pictorial works, Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--Pictorial works, and Montezuma County (Colo.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Chapin, Frederick H. (Frederick Hastings), Wetherill, John, and Wetherill, Richard, 1858-1910
Subject (Topic):
Cliff-dwellings--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Pictorial works, and Mountains--Colorado--Pictorial works
Photograph album containing portraits of members of the Mittwoch-Freunde presented to Ernst Curtius 22 December 1891. Includes photographs of Friedrich Adler, Hermann Diels, Herman Grimm, August Meitzen, Theodor Mommsen, Paul Kleinert, and Karl Weinhold.
Description:
Bound in crushed red velvet with metal clasp., Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and historian., and Gift of Joshua M. Sears (Yale 1877), 1896.
Subject (Name):
Adler, Friedrich,--1827-1908--Portraits, Curtius, Ernst,--1814-1896, Diels, Hermann,--1848-1922--Portraits, Grimm, Herman Friedrich,--1828-1901--Portraits, Kleinert, P.--(Paul),--1837-1920--Portraits, Meitzen, August,--1822-1910--Portraits, Mommsen, Theodor,--1817-1903, and Weinhold, Karl,--1823-1901--Portraits
Photograph album of images documenting cities in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, circa 1878-1879. Images primarily depict locations in New Orleans, Louisiana, as well as Mobile, Alabama, and the Florida communities of Pensacola, Millview, and Bluff Springs.
Description:
Manuscript captions on some mounts. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Canal Street (New Orleans, La.)--Pictorial works, Jackson Square (New Orleans, La.)--Pictorial works, Louisiana--Pictorial works, and New Orleans (La.)--Pictorial works