John K. hillers, photographer of the Powell Survey with his ""wet plate"" photographic outfit about 1873. The white mule was his favorite pack-animal. He named it ""Nigger""

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Description

Title: John K. hillers, photographer of the Powell Survey with his ""wet plate"" photographic outfit about 1873. The white mule was his favorite pack-animal. He named it ""Nigger""
Creator: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935
Contributor: Hillers, John K., 1843-1925.
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Published / Created: 1873
Abstract: Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, a member of John Wesley Powells second expedition down the Colorado River (1871-1873); author of the Romance of the Colorado River and A Canyon Voyage, and numerous other books.
Description: Manuscript caption on verso: ""This was reproduced from a larger print I have""
Some of photographic contact sheets and prints from original negatives not included in Beinecke Library Digital Images Online.
Extent: 1 photographic print
10 x 11.5 cm.
b&w

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: WA Photos 271
Collection Title: Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh collection of photographs and drawings of the Colorado River region.
Collection / Other Creator: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935
Collection Date: 1871-1934
Container / Volume: Box 2 | Folder 42

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: still image
Genre: Photographic prints
Photographs
Snapshots
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Name): Hillers, John K., 1843-1925.
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Subject (Topic): Mules.
Photographers

Access And Usage Rights

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh Collection of Photographs and Drawings of the Colorado River Region. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 4659966
Object ID (OID): 2017817