- Creator:
- Winterbotham, Harold St. John Loyd, 1878-1946.
- Published / Created:
- 1927-1929.
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 583
- Image Count:
- 103
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Album of photographic prints and drawings probably compiled by Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham that documents his inspection tour of British colonial surveying departments in Africa for the Colonial Survey Committee, February 1929 to November 1929., Images that depict locations in individual colonies are often preceded in the album by a map of the region with annotations that trace the route of the tour. Colonies and regions documented include Egypt, Gold Coast (Ghana), Kenya, Nigeria, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar. Images include views of landscapes, communities, and informal portraits of members of the inspection tour party, as well as white and black Africans., and The album includes some images created earlier than the tour, including an informal portrait of members of the Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission in 1927, as well as several photograph postcards depicting black Africans and places in Kenya created and distributed by Kodak (East Africa) Limited.
- Description:
- Brigadier Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham (1878-1946) served in the South African War and World War I, and as Director-General of the General Ordinance Survey of Great Britain, 1930-1935., Photographic prints in the album are 11 x 16 cm. and smaller., Purchased from McBlain Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2007., and Title from cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Africa--Pictorial works, Egypt--Pictorial works, Ghana--Pictorial works, Kenya--Pictorial works, Malawi--Pictorial works, Nigeria--Pictorial works, Sierra Leone--Pictorial works, Sudan--Pictorial works, Tanzania--Pictorial works, Uganda--Pictorial works, Zanzibar--Pictorial works, and Zimbabwe--Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Eastman Kodak Company, Great Britain.--Colonial Survey Committee, and Winterbotham, Harold St. John Loyd,--1878-1946
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks--Africa--Pictorial works, Surveying--Africa--Pictorial works, and Whites--Africa--Pictorial works
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Africa : a survey inspection tour.
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2.
- Creator:
- Thomas Houseworth & Co
- Published / Created:
- [1870]
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 245
- Image Count:
- 104
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > California : San Francisco views, dry dock at Hunters’ Point, wharves and monitor, landscape views, coast range, valley lands and foothills, and Sierra Nevada
- Creator:
- McClintock, Walter, 1870-1949
- Published / Created:
- 1898
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1175
- Collection Title:
- Walter McClintock papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 16
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Subject (Topic):
- Indian women, Indians of North America., and Siksika Indians.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chief Mad Wolf and his wife Gives-To-The-Sun. Their home on Cutbank
4.
- Creator:
- 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.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Geo. W. Williams & Co.'s Carolina fertilizer, with twenty photographic views from the line of the Union Pacific Railroad
- Creator:
- Esterly, George Max
- Published / Created:
- 1898-1929.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2413
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 62
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > George Max Esterly Alaska gold rush papers
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1920s-40s
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 134
- Collection Title:
- Glenway Wescott papers
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 4669
- Image Count:
- 33
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Americans --France --History --20th century and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gray Album #2
- Creator:
- McClintock, Walter, 1870-1949
- Published / Created:
- 1898
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1175
- Collection Title:
- Walter McClintock papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 16
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Subject (Topic):
- Human settlements., Indians of North America., Siksika Indians., and Tipis
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > House of Chief Mad Wolf. Showing his cabin, snow tipi, corrals, and low lying sheds. Divide Mt. ... Cutbank beyond the river and high plateaus
- Creator:
- Hood, Irene J
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 500
- Image Count:
- 39
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- Photograph album containing cyanotypes of scenes of Colorado, compiled by Irene Hood.
- Alternative Title:
- Colorado album
- Description:
- Manuscript captions. and Presentation inscription: For Dear Elsie Rattle from her friend Irene J. Hood August 7, 1908.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Colorado--Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Hood, Irene J.--Presentation inscription to Elsie Rattle and Rattle, Elsie--Presentation inscription from Irene J. Hood
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Irene Hood photograph album
9.
- Creator:
- Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921
- Published / Created:
- 1883
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 341
- Image Count:
- 101
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journey through the Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Wyoming 1883. Photographs of party and scenery along the route traveled and copies of the Associated Press dispatches sent whilst en route
- Published / Created:
- 1870-1880
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1097
- Collection Title:
- Carel Mondriaan Papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 7
- Image Count:
- 25
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mondriaan Family Photograph Album