An unusual photo album documenting the Union Printers’ Home in Colorado Springs, established for the care of printers sickened by the absorption of carbon-based ink into their bloodstream. Starting in 1892, the Home provided care for infirm and/or retired members of the International Typographical Union (ITU), becoming the very.....
A cabinet card photogaph of a Pike’s Peak mule bearing a sign reading: “I Helped to Build Pikes Peak Rail!” The mule 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.....
![Our Stay At The Flying V [cover-title]. L. Austin, compiler](/pictures/thumb/5864_1.jpg?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.....
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.....
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.....
![Booster album for Lincoln, Nebraska]. [Cover title:] Business Directory and Views. Property of...](/pictures/thumb/7055_1.jpg?v=1630955404)
An unrecorded booster photo album showcasing a variety of businesses and other entities in Lincoln, Nebraska, with manuscript show cards by penman G. H. Walters mounted throughout, constituting a vivid portrait of the commercial and civic life of the capital city during the roaring twenties. Among the businesses pictured are.....
A fine, large panoramic photograph featuring the 1st Pennsylvania Artillery on horseback and wagons in El Paso, Texas, during the Mexican Revolution (ca. 1910–1920). Commanded by state senator William B. McKee from Pittsburgh, this company was stationed at Camp Stewart to guard the Texas-Mexico border against attacks by Pancho Villa.....
An important photo archive consisting of two substantive albums owned by California politician Victor H. Metcalf who served as Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and then as Secretary of the Navy, with content relating to Roosevelt’s wife Edith and son Quentin Roosevelt, Orville Wright’s world-record breaking and first.....
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......
![Livingston, Montana and Yellowstone Photo Album]. Joseph F. Scherieble, W. S. Berry, photog](/pictures/thumb/5845_1.jpg?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.....
![Lot of Leadville, Colorado silver-mining boom cabinet cards.]. G. D. Wakely, photographer](/pictures/thumb/6033_1.jpg?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.....