Photographs by William Hillman Shockley that document a trip to Peru, May-October 1903, probably in support of mining interests. Images include views of urban and rural areas throughout Peru, as well as mining camps. Locations photographed by Shockley en route to and from Peru include Colón, Panama; Puente del Inca and Aconcagua in Argentina, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Locations in Peru include Ancón, Arequipa, Asilio, Huanchaco, Juliaca, Limbani, Matucana, Monte Bello, Paita Bay, Salaverry, Santo Domingo, and Tirapata. Depictions also include the Vacamayo River and Surprise River, as well as the mountains of Huascarán Mountain and Las Cuevas. Informal portraits consist of indigenous peoples, including Aymara Indians and Quechua Indians, and self-portraits of Shockley and his colleagues.
Description:
Purchased from Serendipity Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2007., Several images have duplicate photographic prints., Title devised by cataloger., Typescript and manuscript inscription on versos., and William Hillman Shockley (1855-1925) was a mining engineer and botanist. His son was William Bradford Shockley (1910-1989), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956.
Subject (Geographic):
Aconcagua (Argentina : Mountain)--Pictorial works, Ancón (Peru)--Pictorial works, Arequipa (Peru)--Pictorial works, Asilio (Peru)--Pictorial works, Colón (Panama)--Pictorial works, Huanchaco (La Libertad, Peru)--Pictorial works, Huascarán Mountain (Peru)--Pictorial works, Juliaca (Peru)--Pictorial works, Limbani (Peru)--Pictorial works, Matucana (Peru)--Pictorial works, Monte Bello (Peru)--Pictorial works, Paita Bay (Peru)--Pictorial works, Peru--Pictorial works, Puente del Inca (Argentina)--Pictorial works, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Pictorial works, Salaverry (Peru)--Pictorial works, Santo Domingo (Piura, Peru : District)--Pictorial works, Tirapata (Peru)--Pictorial works, and Vacamayo River (Peru)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Shockley, William Hillman,--1855-1925
Subject (Topic):
Aymara Indians--Pictorial works, Indians of South America--Andes Region--Pictorial works, Mines and mineral resources--Peru--Pictorial works, and Quechua Indians--Pictorial works
Photographs by William Hillman Shockley that document a trip to Peru, May-October 1903, probably in support of mining interests. Images include views of urban and rural areas throughout Peru, as well as mining camps. Locations photographed by Shockley en route to and from Peru include Colón, Panama; Puente del Inca and Aconcagua in Argentina, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Locations in Peru include Ancón, Arequipa, Asilio, Huanchaco, Juliaca, Limbani, Matucana, Monte Bello, Paita Bay, Salaverry, Santo Domingo, and Tirapata. Depictions also include the Vacamayo River and Surprise River, as well as the mountains of Huascarán Mountain and Las Cuevas. Informal portraits consist of indigenous peoples, including Aymara Indians and Quechua Indians, and self-portraits of Shockley and his colleagues.
Description:
Purchased from Serendipity Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2007., Several images have duplicate photographic prints., Title devised by cataloger., Typescript and manuscript inscription on versos., and William Hillman Shockley (1855-1925) was a mining engineer and botanist. His son was William Bradford Shockley (1910-1989), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956.
Subject (Geographic):
Aconcagua (Argentina : Mountain)--Pictorial works, Ancón (Peru)--Pictorial works, Arequipa (Peru)--Pictorial works, Asilio (Peru)--Pictorial works, Colón (Panama)--Pictorial works, Huanchaco (La Libertad, Peru)--Pictorial works, Huascarán Mountain (Peru)--Pictorial works, Juliaca (Peru)--Pictorial works, Limbani (Peru)--Pictorial works, Matucana (Peru)--Pictorial works, Monte Bello (Peru)--Pictorial works, Paita Bay (Peru)--Pictorial works, Peru--Pictorial works, Puente del Inca (Argentina)--Pictorial works, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Pictorial works, Salaverry (Peru)--Pictorial works, Santo Domingo (Piura, Peru : District)--Pictorial works, Tirapata (Peru)--Pictorial works, and Vacamayo River (Peru)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Shockley, William Hillman,--1855-1925
Subject (Topic):
Aymara Indians--Pictorial works, Indians of South America--Andes Region--Pictorial works, Mines and mineral resources--Peru--Pictorial works, and Quechua Indians--Pictorial works
Heller, Louis Herman, 1839-1928 Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Published / Created:
1864-1900.
Call Number:
WA Photos 335
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 20
Image Count:
30
Abstract:
Heller operated a photography studio in Yreka, California, 1864-1869, and in Fort Jones, California, 1869-1900. Images from both studios consist primarily of studio portraits of children, women, and men. Identified portraits from the studio in Yreka, include Henry M. Reid, and probably sisters Catherine E. Moore and Emily B. Moore. Identified portraits from the studio in Fort Jones, include Edward J. Baxter, Daniel Davis, Cora Kist, Naomi Swan, and Henry E. Witherspoon., Other photographs related to the Modoc Indian War include single and group portraits created by Heller and distributed by Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery documenting Modoc prisoners taken into custody and their captors. Portraits include Black Jim, Buckskin Doctor, Curley Headed Jack, John A. Fairchild, Hooka Jim, Donald McKay, One-Eyed Dixie, One-Eyed Mose, Scarface Charlie, Shacknasty Jim, Schonchin, Steamboat Frank, Wheum, in addition to Captain Jack and a portrait of his family., Stereograph cards include images related to the Modoc Indian War, including exterior group portraits of the United States military and allied Indians pursuing the Modoc force, views of the lava bed landscape, and the military headquarters of Tule Lake. Some stereograph cards also bear the imprint of the Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, San Francisco, California, which also distributed them., and Studio portrait photographs and incidental images primarily in Siskiyou County, California, created by Louis Herman Heller, 1864-1900, in addition to images related to the Modoc Indian War, the only major Indian war fought by the federal government in California, November 1872 - June 1873.
Subject (Geographic):
Etna (Calif.), Fort Jones (Calif.), Siskiyou County (Calif.), Tulelake (Calif.)--Pictorial works, and Yreka (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Baxter, Edward J, Curley Headed Jack, Davis, Daniel.--1880-1885, Fairchild, John A, Heller, Louis Herman,--1839-1928, Hooka Jim, Jack,--Captain, Modoc Chief,--d. 1873, Kist, Cora, and McKay, Donald
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Portraits, Modoc Indians--Pictorial works, Modoc Indians--Portraits, Modoc Indians--Wars, 1873--Pictorial works, Prisoners--Portraits, and Soldiers--Pictorial works
In Nauvoo, Illinois, views of the homes of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Lorenzo Snow and John Taylor and the grave of Joseph Smith, and of the jail in Carthage where Joseph and Hyram Smith were held, and the room in which they were killed. In Missouri, views of the jail at Liberty and of Lyman Wight's home at Adam-on-di-Aliman [?], near Gallatin, Missouri., In Utah, views of the Tabernacle, Beehive houses, Eagle Gate, Temple Block, Assembly house, Court house, the grave of Brigham Young, and various street scenes in Salt Lake City. One photograph shows an advertisement for a baseball game between Salt Lake and Spokane. There are also views of the pavilion at Saltair Beach featuring bathers at Black Rock floating in the salt water, and of produce farming (beans, potatoes, onions) showing irrigated fields and water pipes., and Photographs of the homes and haunts of prominent Mormons in Illinois, Missouri and Utah, and of Salt Lake City and Saltair views.
Description:
Individual prints are 9.6 x 12.8 cm. or smaller and are attached to both sides of large ledger pages. They are accompanied by manuscript captions and numbers., Purchased from Morils on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1983., and The pages appear to constitute a proof book of photographs. See also WA Photos Folio 17.
Subject (Geographic):
Carthage (Ill.)--Pictorial works, Nauvoo (Ill.)--Pictorial works, and Salt Lake City (Utah)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Saltair Resort (Utah)--Pictorial works, Smith, Hyrum,--1800-1844--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works, Smith, Joseph,--1805-1844--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works, Snow, Lorenzo,--1814-1901--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works, Wight, Lyman,--1796- --Homes and haunts--Pictorial works, and Young, Brigham,--1801-1877--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Irrigation farming--Utah--Pictorial works and Mormons--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works
This collection consists principally of photographic prints of Barney at various ages: as a teenager; as a young woman in Victorian attire and in riding gear; with Gabriele d'Annunzio; with Romaine Brooks; with unidentified friends; and by herself at age 48. Also included are: a photographic postcard addressed to "Chère Rachilde"; an inscribed calling card; and a copy of a book of poems by Louis Emié ("Hauts Desirs Sans Absence" Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1953), inscribed to Barney, with a letter from Barney to Emié.
Description:
Natalie Barney was a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women., Purchased from David J. Holmes on the Danforth N. Barney, Jr. Fund, 1996, and Verso of photograph mount is blank.
Subject (Name):
Barney, Natalie Clifford, D'Annunzio, Gabriele,--1863-1938, and Emié, Louis,--1900-
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, and Women authors, French