Souvenir views of Ogden, Utah and nearby points of interest, including Washington Avenue, 25th Street, the Union Depot in Ogden, the Mormon Tabernacle, the Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital, and the Carnegie Library. There are also views of the Power Dam, Narrows, and Falls in Ogden Canyon, the Bear River Canyon, Echo Canyon, Pulpit Rock and Ben Lomond, Mount Ogden seen from Lester Park, and the Devil's Slide in Weber Canyon
Description:
Captions on prints. Two images are credited to D. S. Spencer. The set is packaged in a cardboard wrapper suitable for mailing.
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
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
William Egan's papers includes a diary of his 1863 cattle drive from Salt Lake City to Carson City, Nevada, memoirs of his childhood in Salt Lake City (WA MSS 157) family letters, papers, photographs, and materials relating to the publication of Howard Egan's diary (WA MSS 158). The collection also contains William Egan's works, "Brigham Young," (WA MSS 159) "Native Utes of Utah," "Pony Express," and "Pioneering and biography of Major Howard Egan and sons" (WA MSS 160).
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe. and William Monroe Egan, son of Howard Egan and his wife Tamson Parshley, was a cattle driver. He edited two journals, Our Deseret Home and The Utah Industrialist. He married in 1886 and moved to Provo.
Subject (Geographic):
Salt Lake City (Utah)
Subject (Name):
Cumming, Alfred, 1802-1873, Egan, Howard R.--(Howard Ransom),--1840-1916., Egan, Howard,--1815-1878., Egan, Wm. M.--(William Monroe),--b. 1851., and Young, Brigham,--1801-1877.
Subject (Topic):
Mormons--History--19th century. and Mormons--Utah.
The journal records an 1849 trip from Missouri, beginning on the ship Highland Mary to old Fort Kearney, overland by the Platte and Sweetwater, Fort Bridger, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, the southern trail, Virgin River, Cajon Pass, and Sacramento. Hamelin also records an 1856 trip from Leavenworth to Fort Laramie where he became an agent for Majors, Russell Co., freighters. He made the return journey in 1857. There are notes on his stays in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and Fort Laramie. and Typed transcript completely digitized.
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe., Hamelin had been in the Southwest as early as 1842 and in Santa Fé as an employee of James Aull., and Original boards.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Description and travel, Fort Laramie (Wyo.), Los Angeles (Calif.), and Salt Lake City (Utah)
Subject (Name):
Highland Mary (Ship) and Russell, Majors and Waddell
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1849
Typescript, carbon, copy of a memoir written by Theodore Boos concerning his service in the United States Army, 10th Infantry Regiment, 1857-1862. Most of the memoir concerns Boos's experiences during the Utah Expedition, 1857-1858, in which the Army intervened in the government of Utah Territory in response to reports of Mormon rebellion. Boos describes in detail the progress of the campaign from Fort Leavenworth to Salt Lake City, including destruction of supply trains by Mormons, the effects of hunger, desertion by soldiers, encounters with traders and American Indians, and other incidents of the march; arrival at Salt Lake City, his impressions of the city and relations between soldiers and Mormons; and the building of Camp Floyd and incidents during two years of encampment there. In 1860 the 10th Regiment left Utah for Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Boos describes life at Fort Laramie, his impressions of Dakota Indians, and news of the Civil War and decisions by officers at Fort Laramie to serve in the United States or Confederate Armies. He briefly describes his discharge in 1862 and return to Chicago, Illinois.
Description:
Purchased from Fred A. Rosenstock on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 1971.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Laramie (Wyo.), Great Plains--Description and travel, Salt Lake City (Utah), Utah--Description and travel, Wyoming--Description and travel, and Wyoming--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject (Name):
Boos, Theodore, 1836-1894, United States Army Infantry Regiment, 10th, and Utah Expedition (1857-1858)
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians--Government relations and Mormons--Utah--History--19th century
Photograph album of cabinet card views of Salt Lake City, Fort Douglas, Green River and Ogden, Utah, and studio portraits of Ute and Sioux Indians. Salt Lake City views include the Triumphal Arch, the Eagle Gate, the City and County Building, the Mormon Tabernacle under construction, Brigham Young's Schoolhouse, Brigham Young's grave, and the Old Curiosity Shop, and colored views of the Salt Air Palace, the City and County buiding, and the Brighton Hotel in Silver Lake, There are also portraits of Major John Gilbert, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, George Cannon, Heber J. Grant, and Brigham Young, and Most photographs are by C.R. Savage, with twelve images by Sainsbury & Johnson, one composite image showing stages in the construction of the Tabernacle by Chas. W. Carter, and a stereocard by Halsey & Coffin. Some cabinet cards are from the Bureau of Information and Church Literature of the Mormon Church
Description:
Cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite (1) and stereographs (5), many with advertisments on versos, some accompanied by manuscript captions. and Accompanied by a container list (in box 1).
Subject (Geographic):
Utah, Salt Lake City (Utah), Fort Douglas (Utah), Green River (Utah), and Ogden (Utah)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Ute Indians, Dakota Indians, and Mormons
Photograph album of cabinet card views of Salt Lake City, Fort Douglas, Green River and Ogden, Utah, and studio portraits of Ute and Sioux Indians. Salt Lake City views include the Triumphal Arch, the Eagle Gate, the City and County Building, the Mormon Tabernacle under construction, Brigham Young's Schoolhouse, Brigham Young's grave, and the Old Curiosity Shop, and colored views of the Salt Air Palace, the City and County buiding, and the Brighton Hotel in Silver Lake, There are also portraits of Major John Gilbert, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, George Cannon, Heber J. Grant, and Brigham Young, and Most photographs are by C.R. Savage, with twelve images by Sainsbury & Johnson, one composite image showing stages in the construction of the Tabernacle by Chas. W. Carter, and a stereocard by Halsey & Coffin. Some cabinet cards are from the Bureau of Information and Church Literature of the Mormon Church
Description:
Cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite (1) and stereographs (5), many with advertisments on versos, some accompanied by manuscript captions. and Accompanied by a container list (in box 1).
Subject (Geographic):
Utah, Salt Lake City (Utah), Fort Douglas (Utah), Green River (Utah), and Ogden (Utah)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Ute Indians, Dakota Indians, and Mormons
Photograph album of copy prints from original photographs and artwork, many depicting views of Salt Lake City, including the Deseret News, the Tithing Office, Beehive and Lion Houses, East Temple Street, Main Street, Garfield Beach, the Salt Palace, the Great Salt Lake, the theatre, the studio of photographers Savage & Ottinger, and a Pioneer Day Procession in 1882, There are also copy prints of views of Provo, Utah, and of Marysville, Timbuctoo, and Smartsville, California. Views in La Porte, California depict ski races and horses shod with "snow shoes," and hydraulic mining scenes. In Wyoming there are views of the ruins of Fort Bridger, and in Nevada an unidentified town whose streets are decorated with presidential election banners, Originals from which the copy prints were made date roughly between 1850 and 1890, In addition, there are views of New York, copy prints of several western maps and of various documents relating to the pony express, and of ten paintings by "Ottinger.", and Many views in Salt Lake City are credited to C.R. Savage or Savage & Ottinger
Description:
Individual prints are 31.5 x 20.2 cm. or smaller. Most are accompanied by manuscript captions.
Subject (Geographic):
Utah, California, Provo (Utah), Salt Lake City (Utah), Marysville (Calif.), Timbuctoo (Calif.), La Porte (Calif.), Smartsville (Calif.), Wyoming, Fort Bridger (Wyo.), and Nevada
