35 pairs of photographs selected from the 122 sites visited by the Rephotographic Survey Project. The pairs consist of a copy print made from a nineteenth century image, and a print made from the Survey's field negatives
Description:
The Rephotographic Survey Project, which operated between 1977 and 1979, visited the sites of photographs taken in the nineteenth century and rephotographed them. The original landscape, photography from Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, and Nevada were originally made by William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan, John Hillers, Andrew J. Russell, and Alexander Gardner. and Each photograph is labeled with a site number located on the bottom left corner on the back of the print.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, West (U.S.), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Bushaw, Gordon., Dingus, Rick, 1951-, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Hillers, John K., 1843-1925., Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942., Klett, Mark, 1952-, O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882., Russell, Andrew J., and Rephotographic Survey Project.
Subject (Topic):
Landscape photography and Photography in geography
Continuous accordion folded strip made from four sections folded to form thirty leaves. Initial and terminal pages mounted to turquoise boards without spine, col. ill. mounted on front cover front board., Copy 6., Limited ed. of 150 copies., and Watercolors of flowers, one for each letter of the alphabet, painted on the spot by Donna Thomas while hiking the Coast Range of Northern California. Colored and copied onto Peter Thomas' handmade paper.
Publisher:
Peter & Donna Thomas,
Subject (Geographic):
California and United States
Subject (Name):
Peter & Donna Thomas (Firm) and Thomas, Donna (Donna Sue)
Subject (Topic):
Alphabet books, Artists' books--United States, Miniature books, Miniature books--Specimens, Wild flowers, and Wild flowers--California--Pictorial works
The correspondence consists chiefly of letters from Stanley Pogozelski to his wife Mary C. Pogozelski. The letters were written from Yukon, Canada, and Alaska in 1943 and 1944, when Stanley worked as a laborer on the Alaska-Canadian Highway (also known as the Alaska Highway), employed by Bechtel-Price-Callahan, in order to maintain a draft deferral. The letters document the daily life of the workers on the highway, as well as Stanley Pogozelski's travel in the Yukon and Alaska. Material includes letterheads illustrated with scenes of Alaska. Also included are a few letters from Mary C. Pogozelski to Stanley Pogozelski, and correspondence with Bechtel-Price-Callahan relating to Pogozelski's draft status
Description:
Stanley Pogozelski worked as a civilian laborer on the Alaska-Canadian Highway, employed by Bechtel-Price-Callahan, during the Second World War. and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska., Yukon., Canada., United States., Alaska, Alaska Highway., and Yukon
Subject (Name):
Pogozelski, Mary C., Pogozelski, Stanley., Bechtel Corporation., H.C. Price Co., W. A. Bechtel Company., and W. E. Callahan Construction Company.
Subject (Topic):
Road construction workers, Roads, Design and construction, World War, 1939-1945, Transportation, and Description and travel
Photographs that primarily document the activities of Makah Indians in the vicinity of Neah Bay, Washington, August 2005, A series of images documents Makah Indian canoes participating in the Inter-Tribal Ocean-Going Canoe Journey, Paddle to Elwha, in August 2005. The journey included Peril Point in Clallam Bay, Washington, and Sooke and Beecher Bay in British Columbia, as well as arriving for an inter-tribal rendezvous at Port Angeles, Washington, Images in the state of Washington include the Makah Days celebration in Neah Bay, fishing with gillnets on the Sooes River, a series of portraits created in a longhouse of the Makah Indians, and a prison sweat lodge ceremony at the Clallam Bay Correctional Facility in Clallam Bay, and A series of images documents the dedication of a totem pole in Comox, British Columbia
Description:
Photographs signed by the photographer on verso. and Collection includes brief descriptions of the photographs by the photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State), Beecher Bay, Clallam Bay (Wash.), Comox (B.C.), Makah Indian Reservation (Wash.), Neah Bay (Wash.), Port Angeles (Wash.), Sooes River (Wash.), and Sooke (B.C.)
Subject (Name):
Luck, Owen Craig, 1947-, Clallam Bay Corrections Center, and Makah Days (2005 : Neah Bay, Wash.)
Subject (Topic):
Gillnetting, Indians of North America, Fishing, Makah Indians, and Totem poles
Audubon's watercolors, the complete avian collection
Description:
BEIN 2011 Folio 66: No. 24 of 200. Autograph: Louise Mirrer, president, New York Historical Society. Blindstamps of New York Historical Society and Oppenheimer Editions., "Comprised of 435 watercolors preparatory for The Birds of America and 39 additional never published alternate images ... Each print is housed in an individual archival folder and boxed in 12 archival custom made linen covered boxes"-- Prospectus., and All boxes include contents leaf; box 1 also includes title leaf.
BEIN Zc72 915pa 18: Original illustrated wrappers. From the library of Alfred Heller. and BEIN Zc72 915pa 19: Original illustrated wrappers. From the library of Peter E. Palmquist.
Taber photographs mounted on pages of advertisements for San Francisco businesses. Most of the photographs depict the outside of the business building (including a view of Taber's studio). There are also four portraits: Taber, John P. Jackson (President of the Post Publishing Company), A. Andrews (jeweller), and Emelie Melville. Three proprietors pose with their products or coworkers: Robert Samisch with his porcelain decorations, Mrs. W. P. Rutherford with her custom made corsets, and Robert F. Bunker with his butchers; in addition, there are two interior views: Bunker's pork packing counter, and Louis Dampf & Co.'s frame shop. There are also photographs of several illustrated lithographs for a winery and two breweries, a view of the bridge over Russian River at Healdsburg constructed by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad, and part of an exhibit of Pacific Saw Manufacturing Co. at the Fourteenth Industrial Exhibition
Description:
I. W. Taber, San Francisco photographer., Photographs on 40 leaves, with 12 stubs of leaves present, presumably for 12 additional leaves no longer present. Album also has one preliminary page., Title stamped in gilt on front and back cover., and Bound in half leather.
BEIN SSy13 A8 848G Copy 2: 57 cm. Original 36 pts. as issued. 1841-48, contains 1 extra plate each of Euphema splendida and Falco hypoleucus intended to replace 2 earlier plates. and Originally issued in parts.
Publisher:
Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor : pub. by the author
Tintypes and carte-de-visite photographs primarily depicting Missisauga Indian individuals of the Ojibway Nation in the vicinity of Alderville, Ontario, ca. 1850-1890, A studio portrait created ca. 1853, by an unidentified photographer, and copy photographed by Anny W. James of Belleville, Ontario, ca. 1860-1865, of William Case, a Methodist minister who established an industrial school in Alderville. The Missisauga Indians may represent individuals Case converted to Methodism. A studio portrait depicts the wife of Case, Eliza Barnes Case, posed sitting and knitting, created by Charles Lawe, Cobourg, Ontario, ca. 1870, Matted tintypes consist of two exterior portraits, probably taken in the same location by the same photographer, one image depicting a group of three Missisauga women, one of them identified as Mrs. Beaver, and the other image depicting a Missisauga woman and two children, Unmatted tintypes consist of studio portraits of two Missisauga men, one posed standing and identified as Joe Beaver, and the other posed sitting and identified as Peter Annego. Five other tintypes depict different Missisauga children, Carte-de-visite photographs of identified men include a portrait of Richard Black created by John L. Richmond, Campbellford, Ontario, ca. 1890, and a portrait of Indian Agent John Thaisaugouy, created by T. Worden, Newcastle on Tyne, Great Britain, ca. 1880. Other carte-de-visite photographs of Missisauga men include a full portrait of a man in a graduation gown in addition to several bust portraits of unidentified men created by different photographers, including Frank Cooper, London, Ontario; James Little, Peterborough, Ontario; and Walter S. Gramsby, Lindsay, Ontario, A carte-de-visite photograph of a woman shows Evelyn Chubb, wife of Joseph Chubb, created by Charles Lawe. A carte-de-visite photograph of a woman and girl is identified as Hiawatha Lukes, wife of Joseph Lukes, and her younger sister, Mary Bell Naugham, created by Thompson & Son Photographers, Peterborough, Ontario, and A carte-de-visite photograph created by an unidentified photographer depicts a young man posed sitting and a young girl
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alderville (Ont.)
Subject (Name):
Annego, Peter., Beaver, Joe., Black, Richard, Missisauga Indian., Case, Eliza Barnes., Case, William, 1780-1855., Chubb, Evelyn., Cooper, Frank, photographer., Gramsby, Walter S., James, Anny W., Lawe, Charles., Little, James, photographer., Lukes, Hiawatha., Naugham, Mary Bell., Richmond, John L., Thaisaugouy, John., and Thompson & Son Photographers.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Missisauga Indians, and Ojibwa Indians
Scrapbook containing photographs and articles concerning mines owned or operated by James Whitlatch in various regions of Montana and New Mexico. Views include the Whitlatch Union Mine and the Park Gold Mines, worker housing, views of Helena, Montana, scenery in Montana and Utah, and scenes of Salt Lake City. The last several pages of the album are devoted to unidentified cartes-de-visite portraits. The clippings follow the mining career and social activities of James Whitlatch through the 1900s
Description:
51 photographs are 25.4 x 19.4 cm. or smaller and 34 cartes-de-visite are 5.6 x 8.6 cm. or smaller. Most of the photographs are accompanied by manuscript or letterpress captions. Included with the photographs are newspaper clippings, magazine articles, trade advertisements, and one drawing of Eugene Whitlatch. A Montana Society of New York program is also included in the scrapbook, in which the name Elijah Woodward is written. and Accompanied by a list of photographs.
Subject (Geographic):
Montana and Salt Lake City (Utah)
Subject (Name):
Whitlatch, James W., Whitlatch Union Mine (Mont.), Montana Society of New York., and Park Gold Mines (Mont.)
