A fine pair of photo albums richly documenting the scene in and around Seattle at the turn of the century. The photographs in these albums fall into five principal categories: activity along Seattle’s waterfront; the city’s interior; lumber, hunting, and mining industries; artistic tomfoolery including some double-exposure spirit photographs and.....
![Item #8987 [Photo album of World War I aviation at Carruthers Field, Texas.] Snapshots [cover title](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8987_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1728583113)
An evocative photo album documenting early airforce aeronautics at Carruthers Field, a U.S. Army Air Service training base in Texas for allied Canadian and American pilots, including numerous aerial and crash scenes. In the early period of World War I, Gen. John J. Pershing proposed to the Royal Canadian Flying.....
An unusual and intriguing tintype picturing a Native American woman and her Euro-American husband, presumably a trader, evidently taken somewhere in the northern plains region in the 1870s. The woman, seeming somewhat shy and set a bit further back than the man, is nevertheless striking in her full length robe.....
A cabinet card photograph of a Pike’s Peak donkey bearing a sign reading: “I Helped to Build Pikes Peak Rail!” The donkey is loaded down with a crate of explosives, a variety of axes, shovels, a can of water or gas, and more. The Pike’s Peak railroad was under construction.....
A scarce and appealing group of three large-format photographs picturing the town of Sierra City, California, its mining infrastructure, and a miner’s boarding house. One photo, taken from an elevated position and captioned “Sierra City, Sierra Co. Cal. 1883. Mr. Marshall was four years at the Sierra Butte’s mine,” shows.....
![Item #5864 Our Stay At The Flying V [cover title]. L. Austin, compiler](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5864_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1585666916)
A photo album comprising 181 images documenting a family’s eight-and-a-half month stay at a dude ranch in Tucson in the 1940s. This album chronicles the Austin family’s time at the “Flying V” Ranch, featuring images of the ranch and its lodgings; dudes on the trail; a “chuckwagon” with African-American cooks;.....
![Item #8690 [Lot of fifty-five dramatic photos documenting the San Francisco Earthquake.]. A....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8690_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1709508114)
A cache of photographs powerfully documenting the cataclysmic damage caused by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, with many photos taken in the earthquake’s immediate aftermath while the fires were still burning. About half of these images are commercial photos while the other half are snapshots by an unidentified amateur photographer.....
A rare image of collector and lecturer G. G. Inman who toured the U.S. exhibiting his collection of Native American art and artifacts. Born in Illinois, G. G. Inman (1865–?) moved with his father to Indian Territory south of Fort Dodge, Kansas in 1880, and appears to have lived most.....
An impressive image of Yellowstone Park’s Giant Geyser, with a burst of steam surrounded by mud and snow. F. Jay Haynes (1853–1921), nicknamed the Professor, was the official Yellowstone photographer from 1884–1921 and took the first known winter photographs of Yellowstone Park in 1887 on a 29-day, 200 mile epic.....
A strong image of Yellowstone National Park’s Minute Geyser, with a silhouetted man in a cowboy hat observing. F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921), nicknamed the Professor, was the official Yellowstone photographer from 1884-1921 and took the first known winter photographs of Yellowstone Park in 1887 on a 29-day, 200 mile epic.....
An evocative photo taken in Yellowstone Park’s Upper Geyser Basin. Steam rises in a landscape where two people have fallen in the snow, both of whom appear to be skiers. F. Jay Haynes (1853–1921), nicknamed the Professor, was the official Yellowstone photographer from 1884–1921 and took the first known winter.....
An exceptionally rare and important photographically-illustrated work documenting President Chester Arthur’s legendary trip to Yellowstone National Park at a critical moment in its history, featuring photographs by expedition member Frank Jay Haynes, who would subsequently become the official Yellowstone photographer. Just twelve copies of this album were made, one for.....
A splendid image of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River from the U. S. Geological Survey series. J. K. Hillers (1843-1925) was an important early photographer of the West, and one of the first to photograph the Grand Canyon region. He began his career as a boatman on John.....
![Item #8941 [Album of sixty-six photographs of southern California subjects.]. Bradford D....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8941_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729026872)
A fine photo album, likely the photographer’s own, comprising sixty-six images picturing southern California’s mountains, seaside views, orange industry, tourist destinations, and more. The detailed pencil inscriptions below some of the images, such as “Camp Mt. Wilson Aug. 1906” and “Thanksgiving Day in Calif. 1901” (for a shot of a......
A set of five evocative stereoviews of Colorado mining scenes in the mid-1880s, with contemporary annotations by miner William Springer of Maine—evidently a participant in many of the scenes—together with a captivating earlier ambrotype of him. In addition to one taken by Denver-based photographer James W. Nutt, four of the.....
A rare and captivating set of photographs by a little-known photographer who worked among the Assiniboine and Sioux, comprising eight striking studio portraits of chiefs and braves, as well as one full-length portrait and six group shots taken in the field. S. W. Ormsby (American, active ca. 1900) maintained a......
A collection of fifty-five photographs documenting the noted Oasis Ranch in Mono County, California, its environs, and the affluent Piper family. Born in Battle Creek, Michigan, Noah T. Piper (1843–1910) was the eleventh of fifteen children of a British family that emigrated to the U.S. in 1842. Piper came to.....
![Item #7672 [Bitter Creek Valley, Wyoming]. A. J. Russell, photog](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7672_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659209392)
A rare and evocative photo juxtaposing gritty laborers in the foreground with the transcontinental railroad in the distance at Bitter Creek Valley, Wyoming. This captivating image shows five railroad construction workers or possibly miners beside a wheelbarrow loaded with rock situated on a pathway cutting across a mountainside. In the.....
![Item #5845 [Livingston, Montana and Yellowstone Photo Album]. Joseph F. Scherieble, W. S. Berry,...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5845_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1579630212)
An appealing album of 167 photos documenting the Livingston, Montana scene and Yellowstone National Park, as well as Wrangel Island, Alaska; Petersburg, Alaska; Seattle, and Tacoma, including photos taken at Camp Lewis, a World War I training camp in Tacoma. Compiled by Joseph F. Scherieble (1895–1953), this album mainly consists.....
One of only two known photographs of Quong Sang Tong’s apothecary shop at 900 Dupont Street, San Francisco, this one picturing the interior. This evocative photograph shows Tong and a young child (presumably Tong’s) standing before a doorway—flanked by two calligraphic scrolls—within his shop, an embroidered banner hanging overhead. Revealing.....
One of four known Taber photographs of Cheong (a.k.a Chong) Wo & Co.’s grocery and butcher shop, considered by some “the most famous Chinatown butcher shop of the pre-1906 community” (Chan). Showing a proud Wo standing in the doorway of his store, Taber’s photograph documents this thriving vegetable and meat.....
A large and very appealing advertising photograph of Santa Barbara Beach and vicinity issued by the Southern Pacific Railway. This turn of the century photo, likely taken on the weekend, captures the lively scene at Plaza Del Mar (built in the 1890s), showing men, women, and children sitting on benches.....