Photograph album and photographs of Montana, New Mexico, and Colorado.
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
English translation of the deutscher Schrift inscription: Apache Scouts, Identified as White Mountain Apache scouts, Location of image: Fort Bayard, New Mexico (Vicinity), and Transcription of the deutscher Schrift inscription: Apachen Kundschafter
Photograph album and photographs of Montana, New Mexico, and Colorado.
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
English translation of the deutscher Schrift inscription: Nutria, a Zuni village, Location of image: Nutria, New Mexico, and Transcription of the deutscher Schrift inscription: Neutria ein Zuni dorf
Photograph album and photographs of Montana, New Mexico, and Colorado.
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
English translation of the deutscher Schrift inscription: Navajo scouts, Identified as Capitan Allen Smith with Navajo scouts, Location of image: Fort Wingate, New Mexico, and Transcription of the deutscher Schrift inscription: Navajo Kundschafter
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Wingate (N.M.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works and Navajo Indians--Pictorial works
Photograph album and photographs of Montana, New Mexico, and Colorado.
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
English translation of the deutscher Schrift inscription: Excursion by Soldiers in hunting gear in eutria, Location of image: Nutria, New Mexico, and Transcription of the deutscher Schrift inscription: Ausflug von Soldanten in Neutria auf der Jadg
George W. Williams & Company. Russell, Andrew J Russell, Andrew J.
Published / Created:
[1869?]
Call Number:
WA Photos 106
Image Count:
58
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Viewbook of mounted photographic prints compiled by the George W. Williams & Company, fertilizer merchants, ca. 1869. A photographic print appears on the recto of each mount that depicts an advertisement for Carolina Fertilizer with a letterpress testimon
Description:
Photographs of the west are reduced images from Andrew J. Russell's The Great West Illustrated along with advertisements for the products of the George W. Williams Company.
Subject (Geographic):
Missouri River, Nebraska., Omaha (Neb.), Salt Lake Valley (Utah), Utah., West (U.S.), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
7/11/2006 Central Pacific Railroad Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Subject (Topic):
Advertising., Fertilizer industry., Fertilizers., Landscape photography., Mormons, and Railroads.
Photograph album documenting George Esterly's Alaska gold rush experience, accompanied by related correspondence, writings, and clippings, and typescript biographies of his father and grandfather. The album contains 185 photographs taken on the way to Alaska, on the trail, and in Wrangell, Skagway and Dawson. The photographs are accompanied by typescript descriptions taken apparently from letters written home to his family, and one newspaper clipping of a printed letter by Esterly describing Alaska. There are snapshots of gold miners on ships, in camps, playing shell games, wandering the streets of Skagway and Dawson, and on the trail. Also depicted are Esterly's Dawson City Electric Light and Water Power Company, women in the towns, "Indian murderers," the "Newman Opera Co.," snowstorms, and the interior of Esterly's cabin. One photograph is by photographer E. A. Hegg., Previously, some photographs from this scrapbook on pgs. 7, 13, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 28, 29, 33, 41, 48, and 50 were digitized individually. The scrapbook was digitized in its entirety in 2021 to provide greater context for the individual images and the captions supplied by the creator., and The album is accompanied by a typescript "Narrative of the Expedition, 1904," written by an unidentified person who refers to Esterly as an entrepreneur; a letter written by Fenton Blakemore Whiting, reminiscing about the gold rush and con man Jefferson R. (Soapy) Smith; a letter written by Esterly to Whiting; three clippings; typescript poems about the gold rush; an advertising silk for an entertainment at Dawson; and two sets of typescript autobiographies by Esterly's father and grandfather, describing early days in Wisconsin, and his grandfather's farm machinery inventions.
Description:
George Max Esterly of Wisconsin was an entrepreneur who travelled to Alaska during the 1898 Alaska gold rush. His grandfather George Esterly, moved to Wisconsin in 1836 and was a farm machine inventor. His father George W. Esterly served as Deputy Auditor to the Treasury Department from 1896 to 1910., Manuscript captions on mounts., and Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2001.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Gold discoveries--Pictorial works, Dawson (Yukon)--Pictorial works, Skagway (Alaska)--Pictorial works, and Wrangell (Alaska)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Esterly, George Max, Esterly, George W., d. 1914, Esterly, George, b. 1809, Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948, Smith, Jefferson Randolph, 1860-1898, and Whiting, F. B. (Fenton Blakemore), 1868-1936
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural machinery--Design and construction, Crime--Alaska, Criminals--Alaska, and Frontier and pioneer life--Wisconsin
Contents:
Fritz Brinzer and wife;
Kenneth MacLeish;
Christian Bérard;
Jean-Pierre Brasseur;
Janet Flanner;
Jared French;
Ruth Ford and MW;
David Herbert;
David Leavitt, Hal Wilmeth, Anna and
Giulio Caparella;
Grace Moore, W. Somerset Maugham,
Josephine Crane, and GW;
Raymond Mortimer;
George Montgomery;
Wilbur Pippin;
Christian William Miller;
Elly Ney [clipping];
Patrick O'Higgins;
Ralph Pomeroy;
Katherine Anne Porter with GPL,
GW, and MW;
Charles Rain;
Dick Sisson;
Deborah Wescott Clark;
Lloyd Wescott, Edward James, and Dick
Sisson;
Jérome Sutter;
Pavel Tchelitchew;
Philip Lamantia, Pavel Tchelitchew
and Parker Tyler;
Pavel Tchelitchew, Charles Henri Ford,
and MW;
Emmy Winthrop;
John Yeon, Barbara Wescott, and MW.
Description:
Entire "T" section of album digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Wellfleet (Mass.)
Subject (Name):
Ford, Charles Henri, Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005, Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957, Tyler, Parker, and Wheeler, Monroe, 1899-1988
Photograph album and photographs of Montana, New Mexico, and Colorado.
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
English translation of the deutscher Schrift inscription: The merchant house at Fort Koegh, Location of image: Fort Keogh, Montana, and Transcription of the deutscher Schrift inscription: Das Haus des Kaufmanns in Fort Koegh