Photographs by C. C. Pierce, G. Wharton James, and Frank H. Nowell of Navajo, Hopi, Pima, Havasupai, Flathead and Seminole Indians. Included are views of cliff dwellings, villages, and kivas and photographs of weaving, pottery making and other activities in Shipolovi, Shongopovi, and Mishongnovi pueblos, and views of the Grand Canyon of Arizona. In New Mexico, views include an old church and the feast of St. Stephen at Acoma, and the village of Laguna and In Colorado, there is one photograph of the Cliff Palace in Marcus Canyon. In Montana, the photographs consist entirely of portraits of Flathead Indian families, chiefs, and warriors. There is one photograph of Alaskan basketry, and a single portrait of the Seminole chief Billy Bowlegs in Florida
Description:
Photographs are mounted on boards, and are accompanied by typescript captions. Six photographs are accompanied by maps of Navajo, Hopi, Havasupai, Flathead and Seminole Indian Reserves. A single print has extensive hand coloring.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Grand Canyon (Ariz.), Acoma (N.M.), Laguna (N.M.), Walpi (Ariz.), and Oraibi (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Hotte, Arthur.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Navajo Indians, Salish Indians, Pima Indians, Seminole Indians, Hopi Indians, Pueblo Indians, Rites and ceremonies, Kivas, Pueblos, Snake dance, Indian baskets, and Cliff-dwellings
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
Photograph album of John Wesley Powell's Second Colorado River Expedition, containing photographs by E. O. Beaman, James Fennemore, and John K. Hillers. The first 118 photographs are attributed to Beaman, and depict the start of the expedition at the Green River Station in Wyoming, and the journey through the Red Canyon, Brown's Park, the Lodore Canyon, the Canyon of Desolation, the Cataract Canyon, and Salt Lake City, Utah, The next set of photographs in the album was probably taken by James Fennemore, showing views of Powell's expedition after his departure from Salt Lake City. They illustrate the journey from the mouth of the Dirty Devil River down through Glen Valley, Nevada, and Finally, there are several views of the Marble Canyon, the Grand Canyon, the Green River, the Virgin River, the Sevier River, Pine Creek, Kanab Creek, and a series of portraits by Hillers of Paiute, Ute and Pueblo Indians. Portraits of Hopi and Zuni Indians were probably taken by Beaman
Description:
Individual prints consist of 452 stereo-sized photographs, measuring 7.6 x 11.0 cm. or smaller, 52 larger photographs, measuring 18.5 x 10.9 cm. or smaller, and 5 photographs measuring 24.2 x 18.2 cm. or smaller. The photographs are generally not captioned. Attribution is based on secondary sources. and Insect damage to some pages, not affecting photographs.
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico), Grand Canyon (Ariz.), United States, and Cataract Canyon Wilderness (Utah)
Subject (Name):
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hopi Indians, Zuni Indians, Paiute Indians, Ute Indians, and Exploring expeditions
Photograph album depicting the landscape and participants of a pack trip to the Grand Canyon along the Mystic Springs and Hange trails, including views of boating on the Colorado River, Cataract Creek Canyon, the Havasupai Indian Agency, Havasupai Point and the Painted Desert, These images are followed by a series of photographs of the Hopi pueblos of Walpi and Oraibi, showing flute and basket dancers, domestic scenes such as tending corn plants and grinding corn, spinning, weaving, making pottery, and tending children. There are several scenes in the pueblos that show the campers from the earlier series of Grand Canyon views, and A series of ten portraits of Navajo Indians follows the Hopi scenes. These are followed by a picture of a women with a 216 lb. tuna hoisted beside her, and then by a series of poor quality snapshots of a big horn sheep hunting trip and several color postcards of British Columbia
Description:
Album lacks covers. Individual photographs are 15 x 20 cm. or smaller, and have repeating orotone letterpress captions. Numbers inscribed in negatives of some prints.
Publisher:
George L. Rose
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Oraibi (Ariz.), Walpi (Ariz.), Havasupai Reservation (Ariz.), British Columbia, and Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Pictorial works, Hopi Indians, Navajo Indians, Rites and ceremonies, and Hunting
Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)
Published / Created:
1871-72.
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 56
Image Count:
13
Abstract:
Mounted photographs of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah created by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 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 Department, 1871-1872. O'Sullivan created photographs from the 1871 expedition, and Bell created photographs from the 1872 expedition. Manuscript captions pasted on versos of mounts describe geological formations in detail, and are signed "G.K.G" (Grove Karl Gilbert), geologist with the Wheeler expedition 1871-1874, Photographs by O'Sullivan depict several locations along the Colorado River in the Black Canyon and the Grand Canyon. Photographs of Nevada include a view of men and women in the mining town of Logan and a view of eroded strata near Cottonwood Springs. A photograph of Utah consists of a detailed view of a rock marked with striations from wind erosion near Grand Wash, Utah (misidentified by a typescript caption as below Fortification Rock, Arizona)., The photograph by Bell shows the Colorado River and Marble Canyon (identified as Grand Cañon) near the confluence with the Paria River in Arizona, and Accompanied by an architectural detail drawing with graphical representations of a scarab, dagger, celestial symbols, and a horned toad or rodent, as well as manuscript passage attributed to Pliny the Elder
Description:
Accompanied by a box list., Title devised by cataloger., 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, Com'd'g., with title, series and number of image., and Numbers inscribed in some negatives.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Black Canyon (Ariz. and Nev.), Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico), Grand Canyon (Ariz.), Logan (Nev.), Marble Canyon (Coconino County, Ariz. : Canyon), Nevada, Paria River (Utah and Ariz.), United States, and Utah
Subject (Name):
Bell, William, 1830-1910., Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918., O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, Wheeler, George M. 1842-1905. (George Montague),, Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.), and United States. War Department.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture, Details, Exploring expeditions, and Surveys
Photographs of Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, and Utah, including views of the Humbolt Mountains, Pyramid Lake and mining districts in Nevada; Shoshone Falls and the Snake River in Idaho; Twin Bluffs along the Green River in Wyoming; the Grand Canyon in Arizona; and Weber Canyon in Utah
Description:
Accompanied by a box list., Manuscript captions on otherwise plain mounts., and O'Sullivan served as photographer to Clarence King's Exploration of the 40th Parallel (1867-1869, 1872), and to George Wheeler's Expeditions & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1871, 1873). Most of these photographs can be matched to those taken for these surveys.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Arizona, Grand Canyon (Ariz.), Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) and United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel
Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)
Published / Created:
1871-1874.
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 55
Image Count:
68
Abstract:
Album of mounted photographic prints created by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell, and later compiled by the United States War Department. Photographs document the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian led by George Montague Wheeler, 1871-1873, The photographic prints were arranged into three consecutive series by the United States War Department, "Explorations in Nevada and Arizona - Expedition of 1871," with photographs by O'Sullivan; "Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian - Expedition of 1872," with photographs by Bell; and "Geographical & Geological Explorations West of the 100th Meridian - Expedition of 1873," with photographs by O'Sullivan, Images of the expedition of 1871 by O'Sullivan include locations along the Colorado River in the Black Canyon, Iceberg Canyon, and Grand Canyon between Arizona and Nevada. Other images include a view of men and women in the mining town of Logan, Nevada; a view of Saguaro cacti, probably in the upper Sonoran desert in southern Arizona; a detailed view of a rock marked with striations from wind erosion near Grand Wash, Utah (misidentified by a typescript caption as below Fortification Rock, Arizona); and a view of an alpine lake, in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, Images of the expedition of 1872 by Bell include views of steep rock walls and narrow valleys in vicinity of Kanab Canyon, Arizona, as well as views of the Colorado River and Marble Canyon (identified as Grand Cañon) near the confluence with the Paria River in Arizona. Other images include a view of geologic rock formations in Salt Creek Canyon, Utah, and Perched Rock near Rocker Creek, Arizona, Images of the expedition of 1873 by O'Sullivan in Arizona include views in the vicinity of the White Mountains with several views of Apache Lake, including an image that shows Western Apache Indian military scouts, as well as a view of the ranch owned by Corydon Eliphalet Cooley. Several images in the vicinity of Canyon de Chelly include views of the White House and Anasazi ruins, as well as images of rock towers and canyon walls. Other images include a view at the confluence of the Colorado River and Paria River; a view of the North Fork Canyon and the White River (identified as Sierra Blanca Creek); and an overview of Fort Apache, Images of the expedition of 1873 by O'Sullivan in New Mexico include images related to Inscription Rock, with a view of the steep rock spires and detail photographs of Spanish inscriptions carved in sandstone. Images of the community of Zuni, include a view of the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe mission church, as well as views of multi-story stone and adobe pueblos. An image shows a view of an entrance or narthex of the Mission of San Miguel in Santa Fe. An informal portrait near Fort Defiance shows Navajo men and women sitting and standing beside a loom, and An incidental image from the expedition of 1873 by O'Sullivan in Utah shows a view of mesa tops and canyon walls near the confluence of the San Juan River and the Colorado River
Description:
Copy of album in WA MSS S-744 described in finding aid for collection., Each photograph accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letter-press. Letterpress captions on mounts: War Department Corps of engineers. U.S. army . . . Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Com'd'g., and Photographs by Timothy O'Sullivan for the 1871 expedition to Nevada and Arizona, numbered 1 through 16; photographs by William Bell for the 1872 expedition along the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon, numbered 1 through 15; and photographs by O'Sullivan for the 1873 expedition to Arizona and New Mexico, numbered 1 through 19.
Subject (Geographic):
Apache Lake (Ariz.), Arizona, Black Canyon (Ariz. and Nev.), Bull Run Mountains (Nev.), Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Ariz.), Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico), El Morro National Monument (N.M.), Fort Apache (Ariz.), Fort Defiance (N.M.), Grand Canyon (Ariz.), Iceberg Canyon (Ariz. and Nev.), Inscription Rock (N.M.), Kanab Canyon (Ariz.), Logan (Nev.), Marble Canyon (Coconino County, Ariz. : Canyon), Nevada, New Mexico, North Fork Canyon (Ariz.), Paria River (Utah and Ariz.), Salt Creek Canyon (Utah), San Juan River (Colo.-Utah), Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Southwest, New, United States, Utah, West (U.S.), White Mountains (Ariz.), White River (Nev.), and Zuni (N.M.)
Subject (Name):
Bell, William, 1830-1910., Cooley, Corydon Eliphalet, O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, Mission San Miguel (Santa Fe, N.M.), Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Mission : Zuni, N.M.), Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.), and United States. War Department.
Subject (Topic):
Homes & haunts, Indians of North America, Navajo Indians, Paiute Indians, Pueblo Indians, Pueblos, Saguaro, Western Apache Indians, Exploring expeditions, and Surveys
Photographs by William Henry Jackson and others of Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho, including views in Utah of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers, the Great Natural Bridge, the Great Dragon Rock, Echo and Marble Canyons and Monument Park. There are also photographs of the Garden of the Gods and Uncompagre peak in the San Juan mountains of Colorado, and views of the Yellowstone River and of the Badlands in Wyoming, and Port Neuf Canyon in Idaho. In Mexico, there is a view of Popcatapetl peak
Description:
William Henry Holmes was a topographic artist with the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories under Ferdinand V. Hayden. In 1872 and again in 1878 he was with Hayden in the Yellowstone, and in 1874 he and the photographer William Henry Jackson explored the Mesa Verde region of Colorado. Holmes headed a division exploring the San Juan Region of Colorado in 1875, and was later in Idaho., Holmes continued his work as a geologist and topographer with the United States Geological Survey in the Grand Canyon in 1880, and his topographic drawings became the basic illustrations for Clarence E. Dutton's 'Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon.' He later served as chief of archaeological field work with the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution., and Manuscript captions written on verso of many photographs and inscribed into negatives of others. The single photograph by G. Wharton James bears a Bureau of Ethnology stamp.
Subject (Geographic):
Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Yellowstone River, Grand Canyon (Ariz.), and West (U.S.)
