Beaman, E. O Fennemore, James Hillers, John K., 1843-1925 Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Published / Created:
1871-1874.
Call Number:
WA Photos 54
Image Count:
104
Abstract:
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., 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., and 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.
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):
Cataract Canyon Wilderness (Utah)--Pictorial works, Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Pictorial works, Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Pictorial works, and United States--Exploring expeditions
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., 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., and 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.
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. and Purchased from William S. Reese on the Frederick S. and Carrie W. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1994.
Publisher:
George L. Rose,
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona--Pictorial works., British Columbia--Pictorial works., Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Pictorial works., Havasupai Reservation (Ariz.)--Pictorial works., Oraibi (Ariz.)--Pictorial works., and Walpi (Ariz.)--Pictorial works.
Postcards with halftone reproductions by Edward Sheriff Curtis of photographs he created of Native Americans, 1904. Images include portraits of a Mohave Indian girl and an Apache Indian girl, a group of Hopi Indian children, and four Apache Indians crossing a waterway on horseback.
Description:
Each postcard has been cut on the right side of the recto., Gift of Peter Sindell, 2007., and Title devised by cataloger.
Collection accompanied by a document stating the name and place of the photographer, signed by James A. Brubaker, enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe, dated Sept. 2, 2000.
Description:
Harold Hanneman owned a variety store in Browning, Montana (on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana) from 1930 to 1965.
