Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten". and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / 101 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission".
Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten". and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / 101 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission".
Bound photograph album kept by an unidentified amateur photographer depicting a trip made to Texas and California via railroad from January to March 1893. The album opens with views of Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Mississippi and includes 23 photographs of sites in New Orleans. In Texas there are views of a limestone quarry in Kerrville; buildings in San Antonio, including the Alamo; and Missions San José and San Juan. In California there are views of public buildings in Los Angeles and Pasadena; Missions San Gabriel, San Fernando and Santa Barbara; agriculture in Covina and Riverside; and wharves at Redondo and San Pedro.
Description:
Manuscript captions on mounts. and Purchased from Charles B. Wood III on the Thomas W. Streeter Fund, 1998.
Subject (Geographic):
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Pictorial works, California--Pictorial works, Covina (Calif.)--Pictorial works, Kerrville (Tex.)--Pictorial works, Los Angeles (Calif.)--Pictorial works, New Orleans (La.)--Pictorial works, Pasadena (Calif.)--Pictorial works, Redondo Beach (Calif.)--Pictorial works, Riverside (Calif.)--Pictorial works, San Antonio (Tex.)--Pictorial works, San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Pictorial works, and Texas--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.), Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Pictorial works, San Fernando Mission (Calif.)--Pictorial works, and Santa Barbara Mission--Pictorial works
Photographs of the Hubbell Trading Post, Navajo Indian children and adults, Roman Hubbell and his wife, other people around the post, log hogans, a military camp, and the Grand Canyon. With inscribed calling card of the first Mrs. Roman Hubbell laid in.
Description:
82 prints are 9 x 14.5 cm., 7 prints are 8.2 x 8.2 cm. and smaller and are laid in loose., Blank album pages not digitized., Photographer(s) unknown., and The Hubbell Trading Post was operated by the Hubbell family at Ganado, Arizona. John Lorenzo Hubbell established the trading post in 1876; his son Roman Hubbell was active in operating the trading post from 1908 until his death in 1957.
Subject (Geographic):
Ganado (Ariz.)--Pictorial works and Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site (Ganado, Ariz.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Hubbell, Alma Dorr--Portraits and Hubbell, Roman--Portraits
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Navajo Indians--Pictorial works, and Navajo Indians--Portraits