Panoramic group portrait of the 15th Cavalry Division commanded by Colonel George Horace Morgan at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, 1915. The image shows the soldiers mounted on horses and in formation on a parade ground near the officers' quarters, as well as mountains in the background. Ink inscriptions throughout the image identify the troops of soldiers and the ranks of officers.
Alternative Title:
Fifteenth U.S. Cavalry, Fort Bliss, Tex., Col. G. H. Morgan - Com'd'g., photo and copyright, by J. U. Medley, -1915-.
Description:
Joseph Urban Medley (1868-1932) was a photographer active in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Texas City, Texas., Purchased from Vigilante Rare Documents on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2012., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
El Paso (Tex.)--Pictorial works., Fort Bliss (Tex.)--Pictorial works., Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works., and United States--Armed Forces--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Medley, Joseph Urban,--1868-1932., Morgan, George Horace,--1855-1948--Pictorial works., and United States.--Army.--Cavalry Regiment,15th--Pictorial works.
Panoramic photograph of San Francisco created by R.J. Waters & Co. that depicts the city in the weeks preceding the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906, probably taken from the roof of Shreve & Company at the intersection of Grant Street and Post Street and looking east toward the San Francisco Bay. The image shows a cityscape with many identified business, including D. Samuels Lace House, Dow Pumps, Newman & Levinson Dry Goods, the Poodle Dog Restaurant, Sierra Photo-Engraving, and Goldberg, Bowen & Company, which was a grocer located at the intersection of Sutter Street and Leavenworth Street. Nob Hill and Telegraph Hill are also visible in the images, as well as Treasure Island and the masts of sailing ships on the horizon.
Description:
Caption inscribed in negative, "No. 51. Business District Of San Francisco.", Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2009., R. J. Waters & Company was a San Francisco photographic firm headed by Reaper James Waters and known for its aerial photographs and panoramas of San Francisco and other places in the American West., and Title devised by cataloger.
Three photographs forming a panoramic view of Portland, with houses in clearings in foreground, Willamette River in middle distance and Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens in background.
Description:
Carleton E. Watkins, photographer of the American West, travelled to Oregon in 1867 to take photographs along the Columbia and Willamette Rivers., Three photographs forming a panorama 39 x 151.9 cm. when joined., and Title devised by cataloger. Attribution to Watkins appears on back of photographs. Photographs dated from reference sources.
Subject (Geographic):
Hood, Mount (Or.)--Pictorial works., Portland (Or.)--Pictorial works., and Saint Helens, Mount (Wash.)
