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1. No. 37. Section of lava stream, Meadow Canon, near Belmont, Nev.
- Creator:
- Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918.
OSullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882.
United States. War Dept
Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905. - Call Number:
- WA Photos Folio 56
- Collection Title:
- Photographs of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Mounted photographs of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah created by Timothy H. OSullivan, with a single photographic print by William Bell, that document the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian led by George Montague Wheeler for the United States War
- Alternative Title:
- Geological Series
- Description:
- Each photograph mounted on board with a descriptive letter-press captions: War Department, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Expeditions West of the 100th Meridian ... Lt. Geo. M. Wheeler, Comdg., with title, series and number of image. Accompanied by an ar
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nevada. and West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) and Landscape photography
- Collection Created:
- 1871-72
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > No. 37. Section of lava stream, Meadow Canon, near Belmont, Nev.
2. No. 40. Water rhyolites. near Logan Springs, Nev.
- Creator:
- Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918.
OSullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882.
United States. War Dept
Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905. - Call Number:
- WA Photos Folio 56
- Collection Title:
- Photographs of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Mounted photographs of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah created by Timothy H. OSullivan, with a single photographic print by William Bell, that document the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian led by George Montague Wheeler for the United States War
- Alternative Title:
- Geological Series
- Description:
- Each photograph mounted on board with a descriptive letter-press captions: War Department, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Expeditions West of the 100th Meridian ... Lt. Geo. M. Wheeler, Comdg., with title, series and number of image. Accompanied by an ar
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nevada. and West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.), Landscape photography., and Stone buildings
- Collection Created:
- 1871-72
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > No. 40. Water rhyolites. near Logan Springs, Nev.
3. No. 64. Eroded strata, near Cottonwood Springs, Nev.
- Creator:
- Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918.
OSullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882.
United States. War Dept
Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905. - Call Number:
- WA Photos Folio 56
- Collection Title:
- Photographs of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Mounted photographs of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah created by Timothy H. OSullivan, with a single photographic print by William Bell, that document the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian led by George Montague Wheeler for the United States War
- Alternative Title:
- Geological Series
- Description:
- Each photograph mounted on board with a descriptive letter-press captions: War Department, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Expeditions West of the 100th Meridian ... Lt. Geo. M. Wheeler, Comdg., with title, series and number of image. Accompanied by an ar
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nevada. and West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Erosion, Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.), and Landscape photography.
- Collection Created:
- 1871-72
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > No. 64. Eroded strata, near Cottonwood Springs, Nev.
4. No. 75. Bluff opposite Big Horn Camp, Black Canon, Colorado River.
- Creator:
- Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918.
OSullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882.
United States. War Dept
Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905. - Call Number:
- WA Photos Folio 56
- Collection Title:
- Photographs of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Mounted photographs of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah created by Timothy H. OSullivan, with a single photographic print by William Bell, that document the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian led by George Montague Wheeler for the United States War
- Alternative Title:
- Colorado River Series
- Description:
- Each photograph mounted on board with a descriptive letter-press captions: War Department, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Expeditions West of the 100th Meridian ... Lt. Geo. M. Wheeler, Comdg., with title, series and number of image. Accompanied by an ar
- Subject (Geographic):
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico), Nevada., and West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) and Landscape photography
- Collection Created:
- 1871-72
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > No. 75. Bluff opposite Big Horn Camp, Black Canon, Colorado River.
5. Photographs showing landscapes, geological and other features, of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geological explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian, seasons of 1871, 1872, a
- Creator:
- Bell, William
Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)
OSullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882
Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905 - Published / Created:
- 1871-73?]
- Call Number:
- Wa Photos Folio 55
- Image Count:
- 68
- Abstract:
- The photographs prints are arranged into three consecutive series, "Explorations in Nevada and Arizona - Expedition of 1871," with photographs by OSullivan; "Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian - Expedition of 1872," with photographs by Bell
- Description:
- Album of mounted photographs created by Timonthy H. OSullivan and William Bell that document the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian led by George Montague Wheeler, 1871-1873. The album was compiled by the War Department, ca. 1873-1874.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Arizona., Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Ariz.), Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.), Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico), Grand Canyon (Ariz.), Nevada., New Mexico., Southwest, New., Utah., West (U.S.), and Zuni (N.M.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Apache Indians., Canyons., Discoveries in geography., Landscape photography., Navajo Indians., Paiute Indians., and Pueblos
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photographs showing landscapes, geological and other features, of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geological explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian, seasons of 1871, 1872, a
6. Diary of a voyage from New York to California and return trip by train, 1874-1875
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1415
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 79
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- The diary records an 1874 voyage from New York via Panama to California. The unidentified author describes the weather, the ship's progress, shipboard life, Aspinwall (Colón), Panama, the train trip across the Isthmus, the landscape and villages, Acapulco, and the voyage to San Francisco. There is a detailed description of San Francisco and more information on California towns, agriculture, mining, flora and fauna. The diary also chronicles a train trip from Rocklin, California to Reno, Nevada, where the author found work on an alfalfa farm. The author continued overland by train through Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska to Chicago and then Detroit. The author traveled to New York by way of Niagara Falls and The volume includes illustrations of California, Nevada, and Niagara Falls as well as maps of the railroad routes. There is a list of the illustrations and a list of plants identified. The author also created an abstract of the diary in the back of the volume
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nevada., United States., West (U.S.), Acapulco (Mexico), Colón (Panama), California, Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Nevada, Panama, Salt Lake City (Utah), and San Francisco (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- Central Pacific Railroad Company., Colon (Steamship), Montana (Steamship), Panama Railroad Co., and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Agriculture, Alfalfa, Railroad travel, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diary of a voyage from New York to California and return trip by train, 1874-1875
7. 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].
