Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 7
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Captioned watercolor and pen and ink drawings of scenery and fellow visitors in Yellowstone National Park. A small watercolor and a quote regarding Yellowstone by Rudyard Kipling appear on the first page. The illustrated cover and nine drawings are bound together with ribbon. Accompanied by four photographs of Walter Reagles in separate folder.
Description:
Purchased from Margolis & Moss on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1992., Son of James Reagles, a member of the Snake River Division of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories in the 1870s. In 1904, Walter accompanied his father on a return trip to Yellowstone and documented his visit with watercolor and pen and ink drawings. He later became a professional illustrator and was a member of the Art Directors Club of New York., and Versos blank, not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Wyoming--Pictorial works. and Yellowstone National Park--Pictorial works.
A watercolor study of foliage in a planter behind which stands an urn; a palette over which hangs a cascade of pink roses sits in the foreground. and On the verso of the image is a watercolor silhouette of a lady in black and white, possibly the artist.
Description:
In pencil on recto: Given by Lady [indecipherable] / to Lady Llanover Jan 1862 - / Belonged to [indecipherable]., In pencil on verso: 1980.523., and Signed and dated by the artist on the palette: M. Dela- / 1786.
Subject (Name):
DeDelany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788 and Llanover, Augusta Hall, Baroness, 1802-1896
Scrapbook and papers of Albert Tracy document his activities as a poet and artist, 1843-1892. The scrapbook includes clippings of his poems published in newspapers, a letter from Wendell Phillips related to the publication of a poem, and Tracy's published accounts of the Mexican War and his critiques of the post-Civil War United States Army. The papers include several manuscript poems and additional newspaper clippings, as well as pencil drawings that depict a panorama of Fort Bridger in the Utah Territory and a view of the fort interior, June 3-4, 1858.
Description:
Albert Tracy (1818-1893) joined the United States Army as a lieutenant in the 9th Infantry during the Mexican War, and served as Adjutant General of Maine, 1852-1855. He returned to the Army to serve in the 10th Infantry, in which he participated in an expedition against the Sioux from Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in the Utah Expedition, and in the American Civil War, when he attained the rank of colonel and served as aide-de-camp to John C. Frémont.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Bridger (Wyo.)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Tracy, Albert,--1818-1893 and Utah Expedition--(1857-1858)