Photographs by chiefly unidentified photographers that document the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California, 1938-1940. Images include views of Brazil Building, Court of Pacifica, Court of Reflections, Japan Pavilion, Mission Trails Building, Pacific House, Peru Building, Rainbow Fountain in the Court of Flowers, San Francisco Building, Temple Compound, Tower of the Sun, and Triumphal Arch. A few snapshots document activities at the fair by an unidentified tourist, August 26-September 1, 1940. The collection also includes copy photographs of preparatory drawings and models for some of the exhibition buildings. Photographers identified in the collection include images of the Westinghouse Exhibit by Gabriel Moulin and a view of the Tower of the Sun by Fred Meyer and Identified portraits include Zoe Dell Lantis, a mascot for the exhibition, as well as her colleagues, including Doris Hillers, Aileen Poole, and Tanya Widrin. There is also a view of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his entourage riding in an automobile and passing Golden Gate International Exposition construction workers in July 1938
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco, and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Heller, Alfred E., Hillers, Doris., Nutter, Zoe Dell Lantis., Poole, Aileen., Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 (Franklin Delano),, Sheedy, Tatiana Widrin, 1920-2007., and Golden Gate International Exposition
Panoramic views of San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906, including views of the ruins of Nob Hill, City Hall, and the Post Office, and of relief efforts in the city
Description:
Numbers, captions, and copyright inscribed in prints.
Publisher:
Pillsbury Picture Co.
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco, and San Francisco (Calif.)
Photographs of depicting Native American students and the United States Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in addition to images of the vicinity, ca. 1890-1910, Images of the United States Indian School include views of buildings and group portraits of students, including students in an art class, male students eating watermelon, a brass band, and the graduating class of 1906, and Other images may relate to the activities of a teacher at the school, including outdoor recreation, view of landscape presumably in the vicinity of Carlisle, the interior of a home, and the silhouette of a woman's face
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Total number of images in collection is 32. The photographic prints are reference surrogates created from the negatives after acquisition by the library., and Copied from original images reportedly held by the Bosler Memorial Library, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Photographs of gold mining operations in the Yukon, including views of hydraulic mining, dredging, and the use of steam to thaw the ground. The journey to the Yukon used both steamer and rail travel, and there are views from aboard boat of the shorelines of St. Michaels, Forts Seward and Williams, and the Holy Cross Mission on the lower Yukon River, as well as scenes along the White Pass railroad, including the international boundary at White Pass. There are also several views of Dawson City
Description:
Manuscript captions on versos.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska), and Dawson (Yukon)
Subject (Name):
White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Fortification, Gold mines and mining, Hydraulic mining, Missions, and Gold discoveries
Photographs of a fishing on the Columbia River and near the coast of Sand Island, Washington, and scenes of the town of Chinook and the McGowan Columbia River Salmon canary
Description:
Stamped on verso of mounts: Northern Pacific Railroad, Edward W. Nolan Collection.
Publisher:
J. F. Ford
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State), Chinook (Wash.), and Sand Island (Wash.)
Photographs of the funeral procession of King Kalakaua, who died in 1891, including scenes at Nuuanu Cemetery and of his mourning sister, Queen Liliuokalani, and mourners paying their respects at the wake at the Iolani Royal Palace. There are also studio portaits of various sizes, of Princess Likelike, Queen Kapiolani, and King Kalakaua, With three letters, one to Robert Creighton, Minister of Foreign Affairs to King Kalakaua, concerning a contract for steamer service between New Zealand and Honolulu; one from Creighton complaining to a shipping company concerning the neglect of a ship's captain to fire a salute for several high ranking Hawaiian ministers; and a note in French addressed to Creighton thanking him for his patronage in the publication of a scientific work, and Also with a dance card from the Iolani Royal Palace for an event held April 20, 1887
Description:
Advertisements for various Honolulu and San Francisco photographers (L. Williams, M. Dickson, William H. Davis, Taber) on some mounts.
Subject (Geographic):
Hawaii and Honolulu
Subject (Name):
Kalakaua, David, King of Hawaii, 1836-1891, Creighton, Robert J., Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, 1838-1917, Kaiulani, Princess of Hawaii, 1875-1899, and Likelike, Miriam, Princess of Hawaii, 1851-1887
Photographs of logging operations in Shelton, Washington Territory, along the line of the Satsop railroad. Included are views of loggers, ox and horse teams hauling logs, trains loaded with cut timber, and the office and store of the Satsop Rail Road Company
BEIN ENG76: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Keller., French suit system., Type: Historical., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Aces: Indicated by "I"., CourtCards: Kings, Queens, Jacks with rank at upper left corner., Pip cards: Numbered X-II., and These cards apparently were copied from cards of another Popish Plot pack: they are reversed. Several variants of the Popish Plot pack exist. The workmanship of the present pack is crude, the impression, fair.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Popish Plot, 1678, Great Britain, Politics and Government, and History
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497
Published / Created:
anno salutis 1486 die xj Februarij.
Call Number:
Zi +156 2
Image Count:
11
Abstract:
An account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, with outstanding illustrations, and with information on various eastern peoples met en route
Alternative Title:
Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam and Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulcrum Dominicum in Iherusalem ...
Description:
BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Rubricated throughout. Head- and tail-pieces hand-colored. Part of view of Jerusalem hand-colored., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Imperfect: wanting plates with view of Venice, view of Modon, middle [?] portion of view of the Holy Land, and final blank leaf. Some leaves and plates appear to have been supplied from another copy. Some plates mutilated. Complete view of Holy Land supplied in negative photostat., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Stamp: Ex Bibliotheca J. Richard D.M., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Bound in quarter old stamped leather over wooden boards, with clasps; lined with four leaves from a vellum 14th c. manuscript on canon law; the clasp hooks are missing., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Imperfect: Final blank leaf wanting., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Bookplate: Frank Altschul. Inscription: Pro Conventu Olomucensi ad S. Bernardinum. Illegible stamp., The first illustrated travel book printed, and the first to include images of real places. Also the first to include folding plates; the panorama of Venice is over five feet long. The view of Jerusalem is the earliest printed map of the Holy Land based on a contemporary eyewitness account., Woodcuts by Erhard Reuwich., Imprint from colophon, where name of printer precedes place of publication., Title from incipit to preface (leaf 4r)., Capital spaces without guide letters., Types of Peter Schöffer used. Cf. GW 5075., 1 binding fragment cataloged separately. To view other title search by call number: Zi +156, and BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards; clasps missing. Rubricated; with uncolored woodcuts. Inscribed: Monastery Baumburg.
Publisher:
P[er] Erhardu[m] Reüwich de Traiecto Inferiori
Subject (Geographic):
Palestine, Sinai (Egypt), Venice (Italy), and Jerusalem
Subject (Name):
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, -1497
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Travel, and Travelers' writings, German
Alexandra, Queen, consort of Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1844-1925
Published / Created:
1908.
Call Number:
WIPA +11
Image Count:
2
Description:
BEIN WIPA +11: From the Peter E. Palmquist Women in Photography International Archive., BEIN WIPA +12: Inscription: Mrs. A. Bish ... Chico, Calif. Inscription: Bessie Venton, a gift from Miss Violet Coar, St. Ive, Cornwall, England, Oct. 1909. From the Peter E. Palmquist Women in Photography International Archive., and Includes 16 leaves of mounted facsim. of members of the English and Danish royal families; each leaf accompanied by guard sheet with captions.
Publisher:
"The Daily Telegraph"
Subject (Name):
Windsor, House of and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, House of
