Postcard from a photograph by P.E. Larson depicts four dismounted men and four burros at a summit in the Funeral Mountains; looking out over Death Valley below
Description:
Title from caption in lower right of image., Imprint from recto, lower left., and Recto, lower left: No. 4129.
Publisher:
Palm Studio
Subject (Geographic):
Nevada, Goldfield, Funeral Mountains (Calif.), and Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Photographs of: Neighbour surveying and camping in Montana and Nevada; Shoshone and Piute Indians in Nevada and Zuni Indians in New Mexico; students and buildings at the University of Montana at Missoula in 1911-1912; people and buildings in Gallup, Ramah, and Santa Fe, New Mexico; cattle herding at Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico; the Gillespie Dam, Arizona at the time of the flood of the Gila River, in 1923; aftermath of the Long Beach Earthquake of 1933; and the Orange County California Flood of 1938 (these made by Watson Airfotos, Inc.).
Description:
Hugh M. Neighbour, senior, an engineer and surveyor who studied in Montana and worked in Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California., Nitrate negatives accompanying the collection were discarded according to Yale University policy in 2023. Digital surrogates are available., Accompanied by a box list., and Many of the photographs are accompanied by later copy prints with manuscript captions on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Nevada, New Mexico, California, Long Beach, Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.), and Orange County
Subject (Name):
Neighbour, Hugh M. b. 1888. (Hugh Mears),, Watson Airfotos, Inc., and University of Montana--Missoula
Subject (Topic):
Surveyors, Paiute Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Zuni Indians, Earthquakes, and Floods
Photographs of: Neighbour surveying and camping in Montana and Nevada; Shoshone and Piute Indians in Nevada and Zuni Indians in New Mexico; students and buildings at the University of Montana at Missoula in 1911-1912; people and buildings in Gallup, Ramah, and Santa Fe, New Mexico; cattle herding at Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico; the Gillespie Dam, Arizona at the time of the flood of the Gila River, in 1923; aftermath of the Long Beach Earthquake of 1933; and the Orange County California Flood of 1938 (these made by Watson Airfotos, Inc.).
Description:
Hugh M. Neighbour, senior, an engineer and surveyor who studied in Montana and worked in Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California., Nitrate negatives accompanying the collection were discarded according to Yale University policy in 2023. Digital surrogates are available., Accompanied by a box list., and Many of the photographs are accompanied by later copy prints with manuscript captions on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Nevada, New Mexico, California, Long Beach, Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.), and Orange County
Subject (Name):
Neighbour, Hugh M. b. 1888. (Hugh Mears),, Watson Airfotos, Inc., and University of Montana--Missoula
Subject (Topic):
Surveyors, Paiute Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Zuni Indians, Earthquakes, and Floods
Photographs of: Neighbour surveying and camping in Montana and Nevada; Shoshone and Piute Indians in Nevada and Zuni Indians in New Mexico; students and buildings at the University of Montana at Missoula in 1911-1912; people and buildings in Gallup, Ramah, and Santa Fe, New Mexico; cattle herding at Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico; the Gillespie Dam, Arizona at the time of the flood of the Gila River, in 1923; aftermath of the Long Beach Earthquake of 1933; and the Orange County California Flood of 1938 (these made by Watson Airfotos, Inc.).
Description:
Hugh M. Neighbour, senior, an engineer and surveyor who studied in Montana and worked in Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California., Nitrate negatives accompanying the collection were discarded according to Yale University policy in 2023. Digital surrogates are available., Accompanied by a box list., and Many of the photographs are accompanied by later copy prints with manuscript captions on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Nevada, New Mexico, California, Long Beach, Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.), and Orange County
Subject (Name):
Neighbour, Hugh M. b. 1888. (Hugh Mears),, Watson Airfotos, Inc., and University of Montana--Missoula
Subject (Topic):
Surveyors, Paiute Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Zuni Indians, Earthquakes, and Floods
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
Mammoth-plate photographs of Gold Hill and Virginia City in the Comstock region of Nevada, showing the Consolidated Virginia Battery Mill and Hoisting Works in Virginia City, the Ophir hoisting works, and a view of town of Gold Hill from the Wheeler monument
Description:
Manuscript captions and numbers on verso. and After working as a photographer with the California State Geological Survey and the U. S. Corps of Engineers Survey of the 40th Parallel, Carleton Watkins traveled independently to Nevada, arriving in Comstock in 1875. He photographed the mining towns of Gold Hill and Virginia City in 1875-1876.
Subject (Geographic):
Nevada, Gold Hill (Nev.), and Virginia City (Nev.)
Portfolio of inkjet prints of photographs by Peter Goin that document nuclear test sites at Nevada Test Site, Nevada, and at Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, as well as the radioactive waste repository at Hanford Site, Washington, circa 1986-1988. Printed by Scott C. Hinton in 2011. The portfolio includes a title card printed by Robert E. Blesse of the Black Rock Press. Most of the images appeared in Peter Goin, Nuclear Landscapes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).
Description:
Peter Goin (born 1951) is an American photographer known for his work within the altered landscape., Scott C. Hinton (born 1974) is an American photographer and printer., Robert E. Blesse (born 1946) is an American special collections librarian and director of the Black Rock Press of the University of Nevada, Reno, Library., Finding aid available., Captions and inscriptions in English., Title from title card., Captions in the printed image., Versos signed and numbered by the photographer., and Copy 3 of limited edition of 3.
Subject (Geographic):
Marshall Islands, Nevada, Washington (State), Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands), Enewetak Atoll (Marshall Islands), Hanford Site (Wash.), Nevada Test Site (Nev.), New Mexico, Trinity Site (N.M.), and White Sands Missile Range (N.M.)
Subject (Name):
Blesse, Robert E., Goin, Peter, 1951-, Hinton, Scott C., 1974-, and Black Rock Press.
Subject (Topic):
Nuclear weapons, Testing, and Radioactive waste repositories
Portfolio of inkjet prints of photographs by Peter Goin that document nuclear test sites at Nevada Test Site, Nevada, and at Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, as well as the radioactive waste repository at Hanford Site, Washington, circa 1986-1988. Printed by Scott C. Hinton in 2011. The portfolio includes a title card printed by Robert E. Blesse of the Black Rock Press. Most of the images appeared in Peter Goin, Nuclear Landscapes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).
Description:
Peter Goin (born 1951) is an American photographer known for his work within the altered landscape., Scott C. Hinton (born 1974) is an American photographer and printer., Robert E. Blesse (born 1946) is an American special collections librarian and director of the Black Rock Press of the University of Nevada, Reno, Library., Finding aid available., Captions and inscriptions in English., Title from title card., Captions in the printed image., Versos signed and numbered by the photographer., and Copy 3 of limited edition of 3.
Subject (Geographic):
Marshall Islands, Nevada, Washington (State), Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands), Enewetak Atoll (Marshall Islands), Hanford Site (Wash.), Nevada Test Site (Nev.), New Mexico, Trinity Site (N.M.), and White Sands Missile Range (N.M.)
Subject (Name):
Blesse, Robert E., Goin, Peter, 1951-, Hinton, Scott C., 1974-, and Black Rock Press.
Subject (Topic):
Nuclear weapons, Testing, and Radioactive waste repositories
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
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
