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1.
Photograph album of a railroad journey from New York to California [graphic].

Creator:
Barrett, Frank N.
Published / Created:
1889.
Call Number:
WA Photos 17
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Photograph album relating to Frank N. Barrett's cross-country trip from New York to California in 1889, titled "From Ocean to Ocean." The album contains newspaper clippings and other emphemera in addition to commercial photographs of scenery and sites...
Description:
Frank N. Barrett was secretary of the New York Mercantile Exchange and the editor of American Grocer when he travelled from New York to California in order to study that state's "contribution to the world food supply." The newspaper clippings represen...
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Barrett, Frank N.
Subject (Topic):
Railroad travel and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photograph album of a railroad journey from New York to California [graphic].

2.
Taking the back track : a dangerous neighborhood

Creator:
Cameron, James, 1817-1882, artist
Published / Created:
[1866]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 866ca
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Lithograph reproduces a painting by James Cameron that depicts a small party of trappers of with horses and with pack mules hiding near a rocky, tree-topped hill to avoid being seen by a large group of indigenous persons approaching them on horseback ...
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 866ca: On verso: Manuscript instructions for matting; manuscript notes: Sir John Hesketh Lethbridge from his dear son, "Albert." Ottawa, Canada West. Framed by W. Lee, Barnstaple, in 1871.
Publisher:
Published by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Trappers
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Taking the back track : a dangerous neighborhood

3.
A parley : prepared for an emergency

Creator:
Cameron, John, approximately 1828- artist
Published / Created:
[1868]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 856ca
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Print by John Cameron depicts, in the left foreground, two trappers with horses and pack animals waiting and watching on guard; in the middle ground, a trapper and a Native American ride toward each other to talk; in the background, more Native Americ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Warfare, and Trappers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A parley : prepared for an emergency

4.
Western life : the trapper

Creator:
Deas, Charles, 1818-1867, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1855]
Call Number:
WA Prints +189
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Print reproduces Charles Deas's 1844 oil painting, "Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man." Print depicts a bearded male trapper on horseback; horse, black with white blaze on forehead, facing right, head turned down and toward viewer; trapper's body fac...
Alternative Title:
Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
published by M. Knoedler, successor to Goupil & Co. and printed at J.H. Bufford's
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Trappers and Hunters
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Western life : the trapper

5.
Buffalo chase

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +70
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of a painting by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground two Native Americans on horseback, one with a long gun, the other with bow and arrow, hunting buffalo. In the background, the scene is of the riverine plains. The upper three-qu...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Buffalo chase

6.
Fort Defiance at Cañoncito Bonito, New Mexico: built in 1851-52

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +83
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of a work by Seth Eastman from a sketch by J. H. Eaton. Depicts Fort Defiance as built in 1851-1852. In the foreground, Native Americans approach the fort in a line on horseback; within the fort, U.S. Army soldiers drill. The fort is at t...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Defiance (Ariz.) and West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fort Defiance at Cañoncito Bonito, New Mexico: built in 1851-52

7.
Hunter dismounted

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +69
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of a drawning by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground a European American on foot hunting buffalo with a long gun. The scene is of the rolling, grassy plains with bison in the distance. The upper two-thirds of the image are of sky
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hunter dismounted

8.
Hunting the buffalo in winter

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +68
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of an oil painting by Seth Eastman that depicts two Native Americans on snowshoes hunting buffalo in a winter scene
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hunting the buffalo in winter

9.
Skinning the buffalo

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +71
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of a drawing by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground two Native Americans, on foot with saddled horses nearby, skinning a buffalo. In the background, the scene is of the riverine plains and distant hill tops. The upper half of the ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Skinning the buffalo

10.
Map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon & north

Creator:
Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890, cartographer
Published / Created:
[1845?]
Call Number:
80 1844A
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Alternative Title:
Map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-44
Description:
Relief shown by hachures.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Rocky Mountains Region
Subject (Topic):
Discoveries in geography, American, and Discovery and exploration
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon & north California in the years 1843-44

11.
Photographs showing landscapes, geological and other features, of portions of the western territory

Creator:
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, 1...
Description:
Copy of album in WA MSS S-744 described in finding aid for collection.
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
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, and 1873

12.
Geo. W. Williams & Co.'s Carolina fertilizer, with twenty photographic views from the line of the

Creator:
George W. Williams & Company
Published / Created:
ca. 1869]
Call Number:
WA Photos 106
Image Count:
58
Abstract:
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 tes...
Description:
Title from cover.
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Geo. W. Williams & Co.'s Carolina fertilizer, with twenty photographic views from the line of the Union Pacific Railroad

13.
The Yellowstone National Park and the mountain region of portions of Idaho, Nevada, Colorado and

Creator:
Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
Published / Created:
1876.
Call Number:
ZZc47 876ha
Image Count:
18
Description:
BEIN ZZc47 876ha : Unbound in portfolio.
Publisher:
L. Prang
Subject (Geographic):
Yellowstone National Park and West (U.S.)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Yellowstone National Park and the mountain region of portions of Idaho, Nevada, Colorado and Utah

14.
Herd on the move

Creator:
Hays, William Jacob, 1830-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1862]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 866ha
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Print depicts a herd of bison on the Great Plains; several bison face the viewer in the foreground; grassland swells into low hills in middle-and back-ground; filled with bison; the top half of the image is sky
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 862ha: State before title and imprint letters.
Publisher:
Goupil & Co. and Printed by Endicott & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Plains and West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Herd on the move

15.
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and

Creator:
James, Edwin, 1797-1861, compiler
Published / Created:
1822-1823.
Call Number:
Zc20 +822ja
Image Count:
41
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains and Expedition to the Rocky Mountains
Description:
Spine title, on publisher's printed labels: Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
Publisher:
H.C. Carey and I. Lea, Chesnut St.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Ohio River, Missouri River, and United States
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration, Indians of North America, Languages, Geology, Discoveries in geography, and Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War ; under the command of Major Stephen H. Long : from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party

16.
Cliff dwellings, pueblo ruins, & Indian life in the South West

Creator:
Matteson, Sumner W., 1867-1920
Published / Created:
ca. 1899-1903.
Call Number:
WA Photos 204
Container / Volume:
Box 1 (album)
Image Count:
20
Abstract:
Photograph album created by Sumner Matteson from a selection of his photographs of the Southwest, Montana, and Colorado. The photographs, which are captioned in a typed list that accompanies the album, date from 1899 to 1902, and depict a variety of p...
Description:
Sumner Matteson, a bicycle salesman in Denver who became a photographer, traveled around the West between 1899 and 1903, photographing the Mesa Verde and Pueblo Bonito cliff-dwellings, Navajo Indians, Penitentes in New Mexico, Hopi Snake and Flute cer...
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Abiquiu (N.M.), Acoma (N.M.), Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Ariz.), Colorado, Isleta (N.M.), Mancos Site (Colo.), Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.), Moenkopi Pueblo (Ariz.), and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Klepetko, Frank., Matteson, Sumner W., 1867-1920., and Hermanos Penitentes
Subject (Topic):
Hopi Indians, Rites and ceremonies, Indians of North America, Cliff-dwellings, Kivas, Navajo Indians, Pueblo Indians, Snake dance, Mines and mineral resources, Sheep ranches, Wool industry, and Religious life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cliff dwellings, pueblo ruins, & Indian life in the South West

17.
The last shot

Creator:
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist
Published / Created:
[1858]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 858mb
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Print depicts an unhorsed trapper beside his fallen horse; he is shooting a dismounted indigenous man who has a tomahawk raised in his right hand as he approaches the trapper. In the background, two horses, one riderless, grassland and sky; a little l...
Description:
Title from printed caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and Trappers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The last shot

18.
The surprise

Creator:
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist
Published / Created:
[1858]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 858maz 01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Print depicts two white men pursuing an Indigenous man; all on horseback. In the foreground, one rider has tossed a lasso toward the Indigenous man
Description:
Title from printed caption.
Publisher:
Published by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The surprise

19.
The last war-whoop

Creator:
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, lithographer
Published / Created:
[c1856]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 856mc
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait that depicts a trapper on horseback holding a long gun, looking down at a Indigenous man who has been shot and unhorsed from his mount. The fallen man props himself up with one hand and raises his right hand to...
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 856mc: On sheet 52 x 73 cm.
Publisher:
Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, Frontier and pioneer life, and Wars
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The last war-whoop

20.
The pursuit

Creator:
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, lithographer
Published / Created:
[1856]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 856md
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait in a lithograph by Louis Maurer for Currier & Ives; it depicts trappers pursuing in combat Indigenous persons on horseback. In the foreground, one pair of riders; a trapper, on saddled roan mount, wearing hat a...
Description:
Title from printed caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, and Frontier and pioneer life
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The pursuit

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