Bien, Julius, 1826-1909 Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882 Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905
Published / Created:
ca. 1874].
Call Number:
WA MSS S-744
Container / Volume:
Box 47
Image Count:
60
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Photographs by Timothy O'Sullivan from the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th meridian, including views along the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, Kanab Wash and Black Canyon, Camp Apache and Apache Lake in Arizona, Inscription Rock, Canyon de Chelle, Zuni pueblo in New Mexico, Bull Run Mining District in Nevada, Conejos Canyon and Conejos River in Colorado, and the Snake River in Idaho. Also includes images of Apache, Navajo, and Zuni Indians. Views 16-25 are from the 1874 expedition.
Description:
Also described in finding aid for Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian Papers. and Descriptive legend accompanies each image, on facing page. Letterpress captions on mounts: War Department, Corps of engineers. U.S. army [...].
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona--Pictorial works, Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Pictorial works, Colorado--Pictorial works, Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Pictorial works, Idaho--Pictorial works, Nevada--Pictorial works, New Mexico--Pictorial works, Southwest, New--Pictorial works, United States--Discovery and exploration--Pictorial works, United States--Surveys--Pictorial works, West (U.S.)--Pictorial works, and Zuni (N.M.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Apache Indians--Pictorial works, Discoveries in geography--American--Pictorial works, Navajo Indians--Pictorial works, Pueblos--Pictorial works, and Zuni Indians--Pictorial works
Cover title., Forms completed in ms., with presentation inscription from Walter H. Bosan, signed by Lt. W.K. Wood [commanding officer], with 18 autographs, and 59 mounted photographs on [8] p. at end, not noted in pagination, and p. [3] of wrappers. Spiralbound., and Includes section on each individual camp.
Publisher:
[Army-Navy Publishers, Inc.]
Subject (Name):
Bosan, Walter H.--Ownership, Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.). Fort Missoula District, Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)--Fort Missoula District, and Wood, W. K.--Autograph
The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and objects documenting the life and work of Ralph C. Hamm. The two letters from Hamm to his mother, Margaret E. Hamm, deal with Hamm's writing, publication of his work, and prison life, including race relations, at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole. There is also a memorandum from the Walpole facility. Writings include a typescript draft of a play and typescript drafts of poems from the collection Dear Stranger/The Wayfarer.
Description:
Purchased from Waiting for Godot Books on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund, 2004. and Ralph C. Hamm, III, poet.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Race relations and Walpole (Mass.)
Subject (Name):
Hamm, Margaret E., Hamm, Ralph C., and Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Prisoners' writings, American, Prisons and race relations--United States, and Prisons--United States
Curtis Granville Jackson scrapbook and papers relating to the Boy Scouts
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | 1-2
Image Count:
122
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Collection consists of a scrapbook and other papers. The scrapbook, "My Scouting History," contains autograph and typescript entries, photographs, merit badges and awards, correspondence, and printed ephemera documenting Jackson's membership in an African-American boy scout troop, Troop 42 of Camden, New Jersey from 1937 to 1943. Other papers include one letter, photographs, scarves, and printed material, dating from 1946 to 1965, relating chiefly to Jackson's involvement in Troop 43 of the Boy Scouts of America. and Folder 1 of 2 completely digitized.
Description:
Purchased from Swann Galleries on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2010.
Subject (Geographic):
Camden (N.J.) and Camden County (N.J.)
Subject (Name):
Boy Scouts of America and Jackson, Curtis Granville
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--New Jersey--Camden, Boy Scouts of America--African American membership, and Boy Scouts--New Jersey--Camden
Bell left from San Francisco, California, to Vancouver, Canada. He then visited tourist sites in Hawaii, Japan, China, the Soviet Union, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, England, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, before returning to the United States via New York. His narrative details his impressions of the different locales, including a description of travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the Soviet Union. The volume also includes material related to a political rally of the British Union of Fascists in October 1934. Snapshot photographs throughout the volume depict sites and street scenes along his journey. and Scrapbook that documents a trip around the world by Lynn Morley Bell, May-November 1934. The volume includes narrative about the trip, as well as circa 130 mounted photographic prints, circa 145 newspaper clippings and printed items, and 15 booklets and pamphlets tipped in or laid in. Hotel stickers and travel decals, mostly from Japan and the Soviet Union, cover the boards of the volume, while the rear pastedown includes 11 photographs of United States consulates or legations visited by Bell.
Description:
Lynn Morley Bell (1913-1997) was born in Dinuba, California. He was the son of Geoffrey Bell (1889-1961) and Hazel Winderdale Franklin Bell (1889-1957), and grew up in Ukiah, California. In 1938, he graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, and then worked as a salesman. In June 1939, he married Julia Powell (1916-1996), and they lived in Palo Alto, California. and Purchased from Marc Selvaggio Bookseller on the Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Memorial Fund, 2009.
Subject (Geographic):
Asia--Description and travel, Europe--Description and travel, and Soviet Union--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Bell, Lynn Morley, 1913-1997, British Union of Fascists, and Velikai︠a︡ Sibirskai︠a︡ magistralʹ
Six photographs on a single page with individual captions.
Subject (Name):
Society for Individual Rights and Tavern Guild of San Francisco
Subject (Topic):
Gay liberation movement --Periodicals, Gays --California --San Francisco Bay Area --Periodicals, Gays --United States --Periodicals, and Homosexuality --Periodicals
Collection Created:
San Francisco [Calif.] : Society for Individual Rights