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.....
![Item #8495 Residence of Peter Roth, Black’s [Station] [Yolo County, California](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8495_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694024665)
A scarce image of a residence at Black’s Station in Yolo County, California, an important way station and depot for farmers, travelers, and others during the early years of development in the region. Pictured here is a farmhouse with seven people standing on both the upstairs and downstairs porches (a.....
![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=1585670404)
A photo album comprising 181 images documenting a wealthy 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.....
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.....
A photograph of perhaps the most famous painting of the Texas Revolution, William Huddle’s untutored but nevertheless captivating depiction of General Santa Anna’s surrender and what some might call the spiritual founding of the Republic of Texas. Huddle’s 1886 painting presents a veritable who’s who of figures in the fighting.....
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 c. 1900) maintained a......
An important 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.....
![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=1659209644)
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=1579630224)
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.....
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.....
![Item #7362 [Hydraulic mining in French Corral, Nevada County, California]. Thomas Houseworth,...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7362_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659358749)
A fine Houseworth stereoview showing three hydraulic miners at work in Nevada County, California. The French Corral District is located in northwest Nevada County some nine miles northwest of Nevada City. The mining camp of French Corral was the first of many camps to be created along San Juan Ridge.....
![Item #5607 “Buffalo Bill,” (Hon. W. F. Cody). [Cabinet Card]. Henry Van der Weyde, photog](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5607.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699128749)
A handsome cabinet card portrait of Buffalo Bill by a notable English photographer. Posed in a studio setting against a painted landscape backdrop, the famed wild west showman wears his trademark buckskin jacket, sports an unusually large belt buckle, and holds a riding crop. This is one of at least.....
![Item #6033 [Lot of Leadville, Colorado silver-mining boom cabinet cards.]. G. D. Wakely,...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6033_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1595366644)
A lot of four cabinet cards capturing the burgeoning town of Leadville, Colorado at the zenith of the silver-mining boom in the area, featuring an image of the Grant Smelter. Leadville was founded in 1877 by mine-owners Horace Tabor and August Meyer amid the Colorado Silver Boom, which came on.....
A substantive archive of 147 photographs of Alaska primarily documenting the Alaska-Gastineau Mine and the historic construction of the Salmon Creek Dam, built by the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Co. to supply electricity to its mining operations. These images are from the collection of mining engineer Bartlett L. Thane (1877–1927), who pioneered.....