Album of Houseworth photographs of California presented by Edward Vischer to John Prince-Smith. Photographs depict San Francisco, Sacramento, and Stockton, Yosemite, dry dock at Hunter’s Point, the Monitor Comanche, and the sinking of the Aquila carrying the Comanche, the Mendocino lumber region, geysers in Sonoma County, the Calaveras mammoth tree groves, scenes in the Sierra Nevada, including Lake Tahoe, and views of the Central Pacific Railroad.
Description:
Blanks not scanned.
Publisher:
[Houseworth & Co.]
Subject (Geographic):
Calaveras County (Calif.) --Pictorial works, Sacramento (Calif.) --Pictorial works, San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --Pictorial works, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) --Pictorial works, Stockton (Calif.) --Pictorial works, Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) --Pictorial works, and Yosemite National Park (Calif.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Aquila (Ship) --Pictorial works, Central Pacific Railroad Company --Pictorial works, Comanche (Ironclad) --Pictorial works, Hunters Point Naval Shipyard --Pictorial works, and Vischer, Edward
Subject (Topic):
Geysers --California --Sonoma County --Pictorial works, Giant sequoia --Pictorial works, and Lumber trade --California --Pictorial works
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.
Photographs document President Chester A. Arthurs excursion through Northwestern Wyoming to Yellowstone National Park in August of 1883. Images of Yellowstone show geysers; waterfalls; Yellowstone Lake; Mammoth Hot Springs; and the Grand Canyon of the Yel
Description:
Inscription on front flyleaf: "Limited to 12 copies for Pres. Arthur and party. Versos blank. This copy is from Senator Vest's library." From title page: "The party: Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States; Robert T. Lincoln, Secretary of War; P
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Washakie (Wyo.), Gros Ventre River Valley (Wyo.), Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.), Teton Range (Wyo. and Idaho), Wind River Valley (Wyo.), and Yellowstone National Park.
Subject (Name):
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886., Clark, W. P. (William Philo), 1845?-1884., Crosby, John Schuyler, 1839-1914., Forwood, William Henry, 1838-1915., Gregory, James F., Hayes, Edward M., Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921., Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926., and Roll
Subject (Topic):
Camp sites, facilities, etc, Landscape photography., and Shoshoni Indians.