"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
Parker Studio (Salem, Or.) Wigan, Richardson and Company
Published / Created:
ca. 1910
Call Number:
WA Photos 76
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Additional exterior views of the farm include a newly planted orchard, plants during harvest, plants damaged by heavy windstorms, a pile of baskets used in harvesting, bales of hops en route to warehouse storage, loading bales on a train at the Wigrich railroad stop, a load of harvested hops in canvas sacks on a horse drawn wagon, trains loaded with hops for transport, a group of horses used in operating the farm, a loganberry patch, the removal of tree stumps using explosives, and images of livestock on the farm consisting of Jersey and Durham cows, and Poland Chinese and Duroc Jersey boars. Other exterior views show the Willamette River and the boundary of the ranch., Album of photographs distributed by Wigan, Richardson and Company, hop merchants headquartered in London, Great Britain, with photographs created by the Parker Studio, Salem, Oregon, documenting the activities of the Wigrich Ranche (sic.), a hops farm in the locality of Wigrich in the vicinity of Independence, Oregon, ca. 1910. The images consist primarily of exterior and interior views of structures, the fields, and surrounding area, in addition to images that depict pickers., Exterior views of structures include drying kilns, storage sheds, the office of the yard boss, bakery, restaurant, grocery store, dance hall, and blacksmith shop, and usually include individuals involved with their operation., Identified portraits include a studio portrait of Major W. Lewis Rose, manager of the farm, and informal portraits of Rose with his wife and daughter in front of the main residence., Images of workers involved in the hops harvest include group portraits of workers in the fields, a view of a tent camp, workers waiting for mail delivery at the post office in the grocery store, and workers leaving the ranch after harvest via automobile and train. An image shows Armenian workers of the Arslanian Brothers Contracting Company training newly established vines in a field., and Interior views of structures include a furnace room of a drying kiln, a tram car loaded with hops entering a kiln, men examining the hops harvest, hops stored in a warehouse, and men preparing bread in the bakery.
Alternative Title:
The Wigrich Ranche, Independence, Ore., U.S.A.
Description:
Imprinted text on cover, "The Wigrich Ranche, Indpendence, Ore., U.S.A.", and "Messers. Wigan, Richardson, & Co., Hop Merchants, [London]"., Purchased from Charles B. Wood III, Inc. on the Winlock William Miller, Jr. Memorial Fund, 2005., Title devised by cataloger., and Typescript captions on mounts below each photographic print.
Subject (Geographic):
Independence (Or.)--Pictorial works, Wigrich (Or.)--Pictorial works, and Willamette River Valley (Or.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Arslanian Brothers Contracting Company, Parker Studio (Salem. Or.), Rose, W. Lewis, and Wigan, Richardson and Company
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural laborers--Oregon--Pictorial works, Agriculture--Oregon--Pictorial works, Armenians--Oregon, and Hops--Oregon--Pictorial works
Photograph album of a trip to Honolulu, Hawaii [graphic]
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Photograph album of a trip from San Francisco to Honolulu in February and March of 1923. Members of the trip include Mrs. H. T. Stickney, from New York, Bishop W. Q. Shepard, from Portland, Dr. A. L. Howarth, also from Portland, Edward H. Todd and his wife, from Tacoma, and Mrs. C. H. Jones, also from Tacoma.