Viewbook of mounted photographic prints compiled by the George W. Williams & Company, fertilizer merchants, ca. 1869. A photographic print appears on the recto of each mount that depicts an advertisement for Carolina Fertilizer with a letterpress testimonial below it. The verso of each mount carries a photographic print of an image created by Andrew J. Russell. The exception is the last mount, which carries a photographic advertisement for BD Sea Fowl Guano on the recto of the mount and no photographic print on the verso. The images by Russell document landscape views and buildings along the Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah, ca. 1867-1869. Many images of landscapes include men and women posited in the terrain to provide scale, An image shows a view of Echo, Utah, as well as rock outcroppings in its vicinity, including Hanging Rock, Monument Rock, and Sphinx Rock, Images of locations in the Weber River Valley, Utah, include views of Coalville city, Devil's Gate, Tunnel No. 4, Bridge No. 32, and of the Mormon Turnpike Bridge at the mouth of the canyon, Images of Wyoming include views of a large windmill at Laramie; Granite Canyon from a water tank; High Bluffs in the Black Buttes area; and an overview of the Laramie River Valley, as well as railroad cuts consisting of the Burning Rock Cut and Hall's Cut (identified in a caption as the Great Mountain Pass)., An image of Omaha, Nebraska, shows a street leading to the Missouri River, An image shows a group of people during the laying of the last rail connecting the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad on May 10, 1869, near Promontory, Utah, and Sixteen plates without mounted photographic prints in the volume contain graphical advertisements for the products of the George W. Williams Company including BD Sea Fowl Guano, Bradley's Super Phosphate of Lime, C. C. Coe's Ammoniated Super Phosphate of Lime, Carolina Fertilizer, and Palmetto Soluble Acid Phosphate, as well as powdered raw bones and dissolved unburnt bones
Description:
Title from cover., Autograph on front board of Frank E. Taylor., Twenty photographs of the west are reduced images from Andrew J. Russell's, The Great West illustrated . . . New York, 1869., and Photographic prints measure 13 x 7 cm.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
United States., West (U.S.), Coalville (Utah), Echo (Utah), Laramie (Wyo.), Missouri River, Nebraska, Omaha (Neb.), Salt Lake City (Utah), Utah, Weber River Valley (Utah), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Russell, Andrew J., Williams, George Walton, 1820-1903., Young, Brigham, 1801-1877, Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Central Pacific Railroad Company, Lion House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah), and Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Advertising, Agriculture, Fertilizer industry, and Railroads
Viewbook with mounted albumen photographic prints of images created by Andrew J. Russell of locations along the Union Pacific Railroad in Utah and Wyoming, and printed by David H. Prime in New York, 1869, by authority of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Photographs primarily show canyons, mountains, rock formations, and cuts along the railroad, as well as overviews of several towns and of buildings in Salt Lake City, and a couple group portraits. The photographs are geographically organized in the volume from locations along the railroad from east to west, Images of Laramie, Wyoming, include images of the Laramie Hotel, a large windmill, and the railroad machine shops of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. An exterior group portrait depicts officials gathered at Fort Sanders near Laramie, Wyoming, during the summer of 1868, which include Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, and Sidney Dillon, a director of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Images of rivers in Wyoming include views of the Laramie River and the Little Laramie River, as well as several images of Dale Creek that include a view of the Dale Creek Trestle, a wooden railroad bridge, and a view of Devil's Gate in the creek canyon, Images of railroad cuts in Wyoming include Burning Rock Cut, Carmichael's Cut, Hall's Cut, and Malloy's Cut, Images of rock outcroppings in Wyoming include views of Camel Rocks (identified as Granite Rock) near Buford (identified as Beaufort Station), Church Buttes near Fort Bridger, Dial Rock in the Laramie Basin, High Bluffs near Black Buttes, and Skull Rock near Sherman Station, Images of rock outcroppings in the Green River Valley in Wyoming and Utah include Castle Rock, Citadel Rock, and Smith's Buttes. Other images of locations in the Green River Valley include views of mountains and a supply train on the railroad, Incidental images of Wyoming include a view of snow and timber line in the Laramie Mountains, and a view of Granite Canyon from a water tank, Images of places and structures related to Brigham Young in Utah include views of his residences, known as the Beehive House and Lion House in Salt Lake City; one of these images includes the foundation for the Salt Lake Temple in the foreground. Another image shows his cotton and woolen mills in Parley Canyon with the Wasatch Range in the distance, Images of Bear River City, Utah, include an overview of the city and an image of the coal beds on the Bear River, as well as an image of a construction train in the Bear River Valley in Utah or Wyoming, Images of Echo Canyon, Utah, and vicinity include views of several rock outcroppings, including Death's Rock, Monument Rock, and Rock Great Eastern, Images of Echo, Utah, and vicinity include an overview of the city, as well as several rock formations, including Hanging Rock, Sentinel Rock, and Sphinx Rock, Images of the Weber River and Weber Canyon (identified as the Weber River Valley or Weber Valley), Utah, include a view of the city of Coalville; views of Wilhelmina Pass (identified as the Narrows of Weber Canyon); a view of Devil's Gate without a bridge, and a view of the Mormon Turnpike Bridge at the mouth of the canyon, and Incidental photographs of Utah include a view of City Creek Canyon; a portrait of a Mormon family in the Great Salt River Valley, and an image of the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City
Description:
The front and back boards of the book are both imprinted with the shortened title of the book, "Union Pacific Railroad. Photographical Illustrations."
Publisher:
printed by David H. Prime by authority of the Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Geographic):
Bear River (Utah-Idaho), Bear River City (Utah), City Creek (Salt Lake County, Utah), Coalville (Utah), Dale Creek (Colo. and Wyo.), Echo (Utah), Echo Canyon (Utah), Fort Sanders (Wyo.), Great Salt Lake Valley (Utah), Green River (Wyo.-Utah), Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah), Laramie (Wyo.), Laramie Basin (Wyo.), Laramie Mountains (Wyo. and Colo.), Laramie River (Colo. and Wyo.), Little Laramie River (Wyo.), Parley Canyon (Utah), Utah, Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho), Weber Canyon (Utah), Weber River (Utah), Weber River Valley (Utah), West (U.S.), Wilhelmina Pass (Utah), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Dillon, Sidney, 1812-1892, Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885 (Ulysses Simpson),, Prime, David H., printer., Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888, Sherman, William T. 1820-1891 (William Tecumseh),, Young, Brigham, 1801-1877, Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Laramie Hotel (Laramie, Wyoming), Lion House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Salt Lake Temple, Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah), Union Pacific Railroad Company., and Union Pacific Railroad Company
