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1. Ajo, Arizona 1917-1918
- Published / Created:
- 1917-1918.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 919
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Photograph album with photographs taken by an unidentified photographer of mining town Ajo, Arizona, 1917-1918. Depicted are copper mining operations at the New Cornelia mine, as well as identified men and women. 9 photographs are attributed to Hadsell Foto; "Hadsell" himself appears in multiple photographs
- Description:
- Captions in English., Title from front cover., and Place of creation and date from front cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Arizona, Arizona., and Ajo (Ariz.)
- Subject (Name):
- Hadsell Foto.
- Subject (Topic):
- Copper miners, Copper mines and mining, and Mines and mineral resources
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ajo, Arizona 1917-1918
2. Cliff dwellings, pueblo ruins, & Indian life in the South West
- Creator:
- Matteson, Sumner W., 1867-1920
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1899-1903.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 204
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 (album)
- Image Count:
- 20
- Abstract:
- Photograph album created by Sumner Matteson from a selection of his photographs of the Southwest, Montana, and Colorado. The photographs, which are captioned in a typed list that accompanies the album, date from 1899 to 1902, and depict a variety of places and events. The majority of the photographs are of the Hopi Indians, their Snake, Antelope, and Flute ceremonies, kiva interiors, as well as weaving, grinding corn, courting, working in fields, making pottery, and marketing at the Moenkopi, Mishongnovi, Shipolovi and Shongopovi Pueblos. There are also photographs of cliff-dwellings at Mesa Verde and Mancos Canyon, Colorado; Canyon de Chelly, Arizona; Pueblo Indians at Isleta and Acoma, New Mexico; Navajo and Ute Indians in New Mexico and Colorado; Penitentes in Abiquiu, New Mexico; and views of wagon trains, Indian encampments, mines, and sheepherding in Montana
- Description:
- Sumner Matteson, a bicycle salesman in Denver who became a photographer, traveled around the West between 1899 and 1903, photographing the Mesa Verde and Pueblo Bonito cliff-dwellings, Navajo Indians, Penitentes in New Mexico, Hopi Snake and Flute ceremonies in Arizona, the Pueblo villages of Acoma and Isleta, Montana wagon trains, and cattle and sheep roundups. He sold his own photographs, wrote articles and provided illustrations for popular magazines, and provided photographs for several books on Southwestern Indians written by others., Accompanied by a contemporary typescript containing captions and often explanatory background for almost all of the photographs in the album. Typescript titled "Index to the Frank Klepetko Album. Photos and Data by Sumner W. Matteson" and signed "Sumner W. Matteson, D.A.C. [Denver Athletic Club] Denver, Colo. Jan. 1903.", Individual photographs are 12 x 17 cm. and smaller., 157 of the photographs are platinum prints., Album and copy prints in 2 boxes., and Copy prints available for every page except the first.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Southwest, New, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Abiquiu (N.M.), Acoma (N.M.), Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Ariz.), Colorado, Isleta (N.M.), Mancos Site (Colo.), Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.), Moenkopi Pueblo (Ariz.), and West (U.S.)
- Subject (Name):
- Klepetko, Frank., Matteson, Sumner W., 1867-1920., and Hermanos Penitentes
- Subject (Topic):
- Hopi Indians, Rites and ceremonies, Indians of North America, Cliff-dwellings, Kivas, Navajo Indians, Pueblo Indians, Snake dance, Mines and mineral resources, Sheep ranches, Wool industry, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cliff dwellings, pueblo ruins, & Indian life in the South West
3. Jack Randall Crawford collection of photographs of mining operations in Arizona, Nevada and California [graphic].
- Creator:
- Crawford, Jack Randall, 1878-
- Published / Created:
- 1907-1908.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 91
- Image Count:
- 188
- Abstract:
- Photographs of copper and gold mining activities, camps and miners in Nevada and California, and of a trail ride through the Grand Canyon in Arizona. In Nevada there are views of the Mohawk Mine in Goldfield, the J. R. Crawford Copper Mine and camp near Schurz, and the boom town of Rawhide, Photographs of California include views of Mt. Grant, Mt. Wilson, the San Gabriel Range of the Sierra Nevada Mountains along the Arroyo Seco, and the Tarantula Mine, There are also photographic and photomechanical postcards, many in color, depicting Donner Lake, Sonora, Sacremento and San Francisco in California, and views of Reno and the mining towns of Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada. A double-postcard depicts a panoramic view of the Truckee River and dam. Two postcards are addressed to J. Randall Crawford at the Princeton Club in New York and a third is addressed to Mrs. J. R. Crawford in England, and J. R. Crawford is present in many of the photographs, including an interior view of the Tarantula Mine eight hundred feet below the surface
- Description:
- Detailed manuscript captions are in the hand of J.R. Crawford. Several photographs and all of the postcards are views by commercial photographers in Nevada and California (Kennedy, Larson, Mitchell, Owens, Rieder, and Weidner). and Jack Randall Crawford received his B.S. and M.A. from Princeton University (1901, 1903). From 1909 to 1946 he was an Associate Professor of English at Yale University.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nevada., California., Goldfield (Nev.), Reno (Nev.), Ragtown (Nev.), Tonopah (Nev.), Nevada, Sierra Madre Mountains (Calif.), California, and Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
- Subject (Name):
- Crawford, Jack Randall, 1878- and Tarantula Mine (Calif.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold mines and mining, Copper mines and mining, and Mines and mineral resources
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Jack Randall Crawford collection of photographs of mining operations in Arizona, Nevada and California [graphic].
4. Photograph album depicting Boston-Montana Development Co. operations
- Creator:
- Boston-Montana Development Co.
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1910-1920?
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 234
- Image Count:
- 8
- Abstract:
- Photograph album depicting Boston-Montana Development Company's operations at the Spain Mine in French Gulch, Elkhorn Camp, ore trucks crossing the Continental Divide, and haying scenes in Big Hole Valley
- Description:
- The Boston-Montana Development Company may have been an arm of the Anaconda Mining Company., Individual prints 16 x 21.3 cm., Photographs captioned and mounted on canvas., and Each photograph stamped on verso: "New England Commercial Photograph."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Montana
- Subject (Name):
- Boston-Montana Development Co. and New England Commercial Photograph.
- Subject (Topic):
- Mines and mineral resources
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photograph album depicting Boston-Montana Development Co. operations
