Geological Survey of the Territories (U.S.) (1862-1872) (Hayden Survey) Search this
Names:
Geological Survey of the Territories (U.S.) (1862-1872) (Hayden Survey) -- Pictorial works Search this
Extent:
1 Album (30 photographic prints, all ill., 36 cm.)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Albums
Place:
West (U.S.) -- history -- 1860-1890 -- Pictorial works
West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Pictorial works
Rocky Mountains -- Pictorial works
Date:
1871
Summary:
Includes photographs from the Wasatch Mountains sub-series (Ogden; Cache Valley; Bear River; Gooseberry Creek; Red Rock Pass); and also photographs of Fort Hall, Idaho; Snake River; Pleasant Valley; Portneuf Canyon, Idaho; Red Rock Mountains; hydraulic gold mining at Alder Gulch, near Virginia City, Montana; the camp at Fort Ellis, Montana; Shadow [i.e. Mystic] Lake; and the headwaters of the Gallatin.
General note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Album of photographs (positives) by William Henry Jackson.
Each photograph is mounted on ivory cardstock, with single gilt rule border around print, with gilt-lettered captions ("W.H. Jackson, photo.", "Washington, D.C.", and frequently the place name).
Most of the photographs have a catalog number that was apparently scratched into the negative.
Most of the cardstock mounts have handwritten pencil notes giving the U.S. Geological Survey accession number, the year 1871, and, in some cases, more details about the location.
Image sizes vary, and are mostly 13 x 22 cm. or 17.5 x 22.5 cm.
Local Notes:
SCNHRB copy 39088016537961 has photographs numbered (on image): 165, 167-181, 183-186, 188-191, 194-199.
SCNHRB copy has a black buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine. With binder's label for Heckman Bindery.
Topic:
Geology -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works Search this
Gold mines and mining -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works Search this
Geological surveys -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works Search this
Hayden and his men : being a selection of 108 photographs by William Henry Jackson of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories for the years 1870-1878, Ferdinand V. Hayden, geologist in charge / compiled by Frank Chambers
Catlin's North American Indian portfolio : hunting scenes and amusements / from drawings by the author, made during eight years' travel amongst forty-eight of the wildest and most remote tribes of savages in North America
Through the Canadian Rockies : a series of views illustrating the chief points of interest and the glorious mountain scenery seen in a journey through the Rocky and Selkirk Mountains
Visions of lost worlds : the paleoart of Jay Matternes / [edited by] Matthew T. Carrano and Kirk R. Johnson, National Museum of Natural History ; illustrated by Jay Matternes
Among the Rockies : pictures of magnificent scenes in the Rocky Mountains : the master-works of the world's greatest photographic artist W.H. Jackson, selected from thousands of negatives as the gems of the collection
