Album of photographs created by Frederick Hastings Chapin, a pharmacist and mountaineer from Hartford, Connecticut, documenting the cliff-dwellings and ruins at the Mancos Site and Mesa Verde in Montezuma County, Colorado, during the summers of 1889 and 1890. Images include detailed views of the cliff houses and other structures in Mancos Canyon, Cliff Canyon, and a branch of Johnson Canyon known as Acowitz Canyon. Other images include views of the La Plata Mountains and other geological formations in the area, contemporary American Indian wickiups made by Ute Indians, and the ranch of Richard Wetherill, a local homesteader who uncovered the Mancos Site in December 1888. Identified individuals in images include Richard Wetherill cinching the loads on packhorses, his brother John Wetherill, looking through the window of a granary, and a man wearing jodhpurs and high boots identified as probably Chapin
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Spine title: Mancos Canon., Individual photographs measure 11.6 x 18.1 cm., and Manuscript captions in ink at bottom of each photograph.
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New, Colorado, Cliff Canyon (Colo.), Johnson Canyon (Colo.), La Plata Mountains, Mancos Canyon (Colo.), Mancos Site (Colo.), Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.), and Montezuma County (Colo.)
Subject (Name):
Chapin, Frederick H. (Frederick Hastings), Wetherill, John., and Wetherill, Richard, 1858-1910.
Subject (Topic):
Cliff-dwellings, Indians of North America, and Mountains
Photograph album of cyanotype photographs created by Irene Elizabeth Jerome Hood and and compiled in the volume for Elspeth "Elsie" Mary Rattle on August 7, 1908, which chiefly depict landscape and floral studies in Colorado, Identified locations in Colorado include Buffalo Creek (referred to as Buffalo Park), Chair Mountain, Cheyenne Canyon , Estes Park, Lion Head, Longs Peak, and Wellington Lake, and Floral studies in nature, as well as in still lifes, include examples of Anemone, Cactaceae (cactus), Calochortus (Mariposa lily), Campanula rotundifolia (harebell), Glaucium flavum (horned poppy), Leucocrinum montanum (sand lily), Mentzelia (vesper flower), Oenothera caespitosa (morning primrose), Penstemon (beardtongue), Rosa woodsii (wild roses), and Yucca. A floral study laid in the album includes a wedding toast, "To the Bride," attributed to Anna Lewis
Description:
Irene Elizabeth Jerome Hood (1858-1945) was an artist and photographer. She was born in Ellicottville, New York, to Charles Jerome (1815-1873) and Elizabeth Reed Jerome (1825-1858). In 1887, she married attorney Thomas H. Hood (1856-1946). She died in Colorado., Elspeth "Elsie" Mary Rattle (1886-1981) was a social worker with the Denver Department of Public Welfare in Colorado. She was the daughter of Thomas Stuart Rattle (18541934) and Sarah Adele Archdeacon Rattle (1856-1908) and sister of Paul Stuart Rattle (1882-1873). She graduated from Wellesley College in 1910., Title devised by cataloger., and Manuscript captions on leaves.
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado, Jefferson County, Buffalo Creek (Colo.), Cathedral Spires (Colo.), Chair Mountain (Colo.), Cheyenne Canyon (Colo.), Estes Park (Colo.), Lion Head (Colo.), Longs Peak (Colo.), Rio Grande (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.), and Wellington Lake (Colo.)
Subject (Name):
Hood, Irene Elizabeth Jerome, 1858-1945., Lewis, Anna, poet., and Rattle, Elspeth Mary, 1886-1981.
