Emil Burgermeister mountaineering views of California and Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 3
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Emil Burgermeister, mountaineer, who with his wife Fanny trekked through the national parks and forests of California, Oregon, and Washington from the 1910s through the early 1930s.
Description:
Geographic views identified after the Burgermeister's death by Oliver Kehrlein, a mountaineer-photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Pictorial works., Kings Canyon National Park (Calif.)--Pictorial works., Kings River (Calif.), Sequoia National Park (Calif.)--Pictorial works, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Pictorial works., and United States--West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Burgermeister, Frances, 1881-1942
Subject (Topic):
Landscape photography--United States., Mountain, Mountaineering--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works., and National parks and reserves--United States--Pictorial works.
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh collection of photographs and drawings of the Colorado River region.
Container / Volume:
Box 4 | Folder 146
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
A deep view of the cliffs by the North River.
Description:
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 and In pencil verso: S.B. / North River / below Kanab / Arizona
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 3
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
"View of Jiang Beh, across Little River from Chungking [Chongqing]. (Name means North Bank of river). Shows the part enclosed by outer wall. Built up part of city behind wall to the right." The river plain is shown in the foreground.
