George W. Williams & Company. Russell, Andrew J Russell, Andrew J.
Published / Created:
[1869?]
Call Number:
WA Photos 106
Image Count:
58
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Viewbook of mounted photographic prints compiled by the George W. Williams & Company, fertilizer merchants, ca. 1869. A photographic print appears on the recto of each mount that depicts an advertisement for Carolina Fertilizer with a letterpress testimon
Description:
Photographs of the west are reduced images from Andrew J. Russell's The Great West Illustrated along with advertisements for the products of the George W. Williams Company.
Subject (Geographic):
Missouri River, Nebraska., Omaha (Neb.), Salt Lake Valley (Utah), Utah., West (U.S.), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
7/11/2006 Central Pacific Railroad Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Subject (Topic):
Advertising., Fertilizer industry., Fertilizers., Landscape photography., Mormons, and Railroads.
Green River (Wyo.-Utah), Laramie River (Colo. and Wyo.), Nebraska., North Platte River., Salt Lake City (Utah), Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Uinta Mountains (Utah and Wyo.), Utah., Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho), Weber River (Utah), West (U.S.), and Wyoming.
Subject (Name):
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Hot springs, Landscape photography., and Railroads.
Volume with mounted albumen photographic prints of images created by Andrew J. Russell of locations along the Union Pacific Railroad in Utah and Wyoming, and printed by David H. Prime in New York, 1869, by authority of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Publisher:
Published by authority of the Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado., Green River (Wyo.-Utah), Laramie River (Colo. and Wyo.), Salt Lake City (Utah), Utah., West (U.S.), and Wyoming.
Subject (Name):
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Bridges., Landscape photography., Mormons, Railroads., and Trestles.
The album contains advertisements by other New Haven businesses on the front pastedown and versos of almost every photograph, although some versos are blank.
Description:
Letterpress captions on mounts., Probably distributed by C. M. Loomis, dealer in musical merchandise in New Haven, Connecticut., and Reduced images from Andrew J. Russell's The Great West Illustrated.
Subject (Geographic):
Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah), Laramie (Wyo.), Salt Lake City, and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Austin, Henry, 1804-1891, Bundy, J. K., C.M. Loomi, J.N. Isbell & Co. (New Haven, Conn.), John E. Bassett & Company, Loomis, C. M. (Clark Merrick), 1829-1890, Russell, R. C., Union Pacific Railroad Company, Wheeler & Wilson Company, and Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
Bound volume of mounted photographs by Andrew J. Russell that document the landscape views and buildings along the Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah, ca. 1867-1869.
Description:
Formally cataloged as: ZZc10 870ru. and Tipped in list of image titles on the flyleaf does not reflect the order of the images in the volume.Many of the photographs appear also in his The Great West Illustrated, 1869.
Publisher:
[Boston A. Mudge & Son Print.]
Subject (Geographic):
Salt Lake City and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Cities and towns, Landscape photography, Log cabins, Mormons, Railroads, and Rivers
Photographic prints previously bound in a deteriorating leather album with spine title "Views in Salt Lake." Foliated before dismantlement.
Subject (Geographic):
Green River (Wyo.-Utah), Laramie River (Colo. and Wyo.), Nebraska., North Platte River., Salt Lake City (Utah), Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Uinta Mountains (Utah and Wyo.), Utah., Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho), Weber River (Utah), West (U.S.), and Wyoming.
Subject (Name):
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Hot springs, Landscape photography., and Railroads.
