The collection consists of ten bound volumes of autograph manuscript correspondence to and from American meteorologist William C. Redfield largely concerning steam navigation and weather phenomena including cyclones, hurricanes, storms, and typhoons. Series I contains four volumes of letters received by Redfield from meteorologists, engineers, geologists, and other scientific colleagues in North America, Great Britain, Europe, and the Caribbean. The letters were arranged in two groups: Steam Boats and Railroads, 1822-1854 (volume 1) and Scientific, 1831-1857 (volumes 2-4), and occasionally include broadsides, newspaper clippings, and manuscript charts and diagrams tipped in with letters. Series II contains three volumes of letter books holding copies of Redfield's outgoing letters in chronological order. The volumes in Series I were likely compiled by Redfield's son John Howard Redfield; each volume in both series has an index of correspondents at the front and Series III contains three volumes of correspondence between Redfield and the British meteorologist Sir William Reid and his wife Sarah Bolland Reid, arranged chronologically. The Reids wrote from their government posts in Bermuda (1839-1846), Barbados (1846-1848), London (1848-1851), and Malta (1852-1857). The volumes were created in 1858 by John Howard Redfield, who provided an autograph manuscript essay in the first volume that serves as an introduction to the set. Redfield's replies to Reid were copied from the letterbooks in Series II.
Description:
William C. Redfield (1789-1857), American meteorologist and first president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Redfield was born in Middletown, Connecticut, on March 26, 1789, and died in New York, New York, on February 12, 1857., In English., and Box 1 contains Series I, Steam Boats and Railroads Letters. Box 2 contains Series I, Scientific Letters, 1831-1841. Box 3 contains Series I, Scientific Letters, 1842-1847. Box 4 contains Series I, Scientific Letters, 1848-1857. Box 5 contains Series II. Box 6 contains Series III.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., United States., Barbados, Bermuda Islands, and Malta
Subject (Name):
Becher, A. B. 1796-1876. (Alexander Bridport),, Coffin, James H. 1806-1873. (James Henry),, Clinton, DeWitt, 1805-1833., Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895., Gibbes, Robert W. 1809-1866. (Robert Wilson),, Hall, James, 1811-1898., Henwood, William Jory, 1805-1875., Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864., Lefroy, J. H. Sir, 1817-1890. (John Henry),, Loomis, Elias, 1811-1889., Martin, F. P. B., Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858., Piddington, Henry, 1797-1858., Preston, Samuel, 1756-1834., Redfield, John Howard, 1815-1895., Redfield, W. C. 1789-1857. (William C.),, Reid, Sarah Bolland, -1858., Reid, William, 1791-1858., Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864., Silliman, Benjamin, 1816-1885., Smith, Vivus Wood, 1804-1881., Verneuil, Édouard de, 1805-1873., Webster, Matthew Henry, 1803-1846., Whitney, Asa, 1791-1874., and Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886.
Subject (Topic):
Cyclones, Hurricanes, Meteorologists, Ocean currents, Railroads, Steam-navigation, Tornadoes, Description and travel, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Sixteen albumen prints depicting a variety of locations and people in Southern California and Arizona. There are views of six missions, one of them identified as San Miguel, and three others probably the California missions San Buenaventura, San Luis Rey, and Santa Inés. Three views are of the Southern Pacific Railroad, including the Tehachapi Loop and the San Fernando tunnel; three more views are of buildings and a river landscape in Yuma, Arizona. Also depicted are Chinese women in San Francisco; a vineyard and winery in Pasadena; Indian huts at Sunny Slope, San Gabriel, California; and a Mexican family in Santa Barbara, California
Description:
Carleton E. Watkins, western photographer., Copy prints available., and Manuscript captions on verso of four photographs.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Tehachapi Pass, Yuma (Ariz.), San Francisco, Pasadena (Calif.), and San Gabriel (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Mission San Miguel Arcangel (San Miguel, Calif.), San Buenaventura Mission, San Luis Rey Mission (Calif.), Santa Inés Mission (Solvang, Calif.), and Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Missions, Railroads, Chinese Americans, and Viticulture
Bound volume of mounted photographs by Andrew J. Russell that document the 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, Images of locations in Salt Lake City, Utah, include a view of the Tabernacle, and two images that show the residences of Brigham Young, known as the Beehive House and Lion House; one of these images includes the foundation for the Salt Lake Temple in the foreground. An image depicts a portrait of a Mormon family in the Great Salt River Valley, Images of locations in the vicinity of Echo, Utah, include Hanging Rock at the mouth of Echo Canyon; Sentinel Rock in Echo Canyon, as well as Sphinx Rock near Echo, Images of locations in Weber River Valley, Utah, include a view of the valley from Wilhelmina Pass, and images of Devil's Gate and Tunnel No. 4., A portrait depicts a group of officials gathered at Fort Sanders, Laramie, Wyoming, in the summer of 1868, which includes Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, and Sidney Dillon, the director of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Images of locations in Wyoming include Dial Rock in the Laramie Basin and Skull Rock near Sherman Station as well as several sites in the Green River Valley consisting of Castle Rock, Citadel Rock, and Smith's Buttes, and Other images include a view of men and a horse on High Bluffs in the Black Buttes area of Wyoming; a view of a construction train in the Bear River Valley in Utah or Wyoming; and an image of Omaha, Nebraska, that shows a street leading to the Missouri River
Description:
Title from cover., Tipped in list of image titles on the flyleaf does not reflect the order of the images in the volume., and Some of these photographs appear in A. J. Russell's The Great West Illustrated . . . New York, 1869.
Publisher:
A. Mudge & Son Print
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Echo (Utah), Echo Canyon (Utah), Fort Sanders (Wyo.), Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah), Missouri River, Nebraska, Omaha (Neb.), Salt Lake City (Utah), Utah, Weber River Valley (Utah), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Dillon, Sidney, 1812-1892, Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885 (Ulysses Simpson),, Russell, Andrew J., Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888, Sherman, William T. 1820-1891 (William Tecumseh),, Young, Brigham, 1801-1877, Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Lion House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Salt Lake Temple, Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah), and Union Pacific Railroad Company
Print depicts the town of Sherman, Wyoming, at the summit of the original grade of the Union Pacific Railroad, at an elevation of 8,247 ft (2,514 m); shows the town's two hotels, Sherman House and Summit House, train engine and flat cars, other buildings, and the Laramie Mountains in the background
Description:
BEIN BrSides4o Zc47 869un: On sheet 13.0 x 28.5 cm. and Title from caption below image
Publisher:
Harper & Brothers
Subject (Geographic):
Sherman (Albany County, Wyo. : Ghost town), Albany County (Wyo.), United States, and Overland Trails
Indexed pocket map, tourists' and shippers' guide of Texas, Texas, Rand McNally indexed pocket map, tourists' and shippers' guide, Rand McNally standard map of Texas, Standard map of Texas, Rand McNally new commercial atlas map of Texas, and New commercial atlas map of Texas
Description:
BEIN Covers 796 1921: Original wrappers. Inscription on front cover: Malcolm R. Thorpe., Relief shown by hachures and spot heights., Shows railroads and counties., Title from index., Includes insets of the panhandle and southern Texas, and indexes., and On verso: Rand McNally main highway map of Texas. Scale [ca. 1:1,267,200].
Publisher:
Rand McNally
Subject (Geographic):
Texas and Texas Panhandle (Tex.)
Subject (Topic):
Administrative and political divisions and Railroads
Shows 4 profiles., "These are profiles not of the actual trails of the surveying parties, but of the best railroad routes which came under their observation.", and Includes text.
Photographs of logging operations in Shelton, Washington Territory, along the line of the Satsop railroad. Included are views of loggers, ox and horse teams hauling logs, trains loaded with cut timber, and the office and store of the Satsop Rail Road Company
The collection documents the construction and expansion of the Moffat Road. With one exception, the photographs in the album were taken by C. L. McClure, and show views from and of the railway and its many tunnels, including several towns along the route. One photo, likely taken by F. J. Francis, shows David Moffat and other men on the caboose of a train entering tunnel number 35. Many of the photographs in the album are retouched in the negative, some heavily. The album also includes a newspaper clipping describing the sale of railway bonds to investors in October 1902 by Frank B. Gibson of the International Trust Company, Additional photographs include views of the Moffat Road by McClure, F. J. Francis, and others, as well as general views of the area, including some by the Detroit Publishing Co. F. J. Francis's images document the opening of Gore Canyon; two of these include David Moffat. One image by an unidentified photographer shows the blasting of a tunnel. A number of photographs show Grand Lake, including a series taken in 1890. Manuscript captions on two photographs identify one man as "Daddy;" based on a comparison with the clipping in the album, this may be Frank B. Gibson. Another man is identified as J. A. Ferguson. The photographs are accompanied by a clipping concerning Gibson's appointment as financial director of the railway in 1908, and Two photographs of Alaska are also present: one shows Princeton Glacier, Nassau Fjord; the other a glacier on the Alaska Central Railway
Description:
The Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway, also known as "the Moffat Road" after its creator David Moffat, crossed the Continental Divide over Rollins Pass, northwest of Denver, Colorado. Construction began in 1903, and the line reached Steamboat Springs by 1909. After Moffat's death in 1911, the railroad failed financially and was reorganized as the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad. In 1928 the route over the pass was superceded by the Moffat Tunnel, which runs through James Peak., In 2 boxes., Title devised by cataloger., and Captions in the negative for all McClure photographs, and for some others. Manuscript captions on many loose photographs.
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado, Kremmling, Colo., Hot Sulphur Springs (Colo.), Estes Park (Colo.), Grand Lake (Colo.), and Alaska
Subject (Name):
Francis, F. J., Gibson, Frank B., McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957., Moffat, David H. 1839-1911 (David Halliday),, Alaska Central Railway Company, Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway, and Detroit Publishing Co.
