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1. Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, no. 53116
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1897-1924
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 121
- Collection Title:
- Photographic views of North America
- Container / Volume:
- Vol. 2
- Image Count:
- 2
- Publisher:
- Detroit Photographic Co. or Detroit Publishing Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Pueblo Indians --Antiquities
- Subject (Topic):
- Cliff-dwellings --Colorado and Indians of North America --Homes and haunts --Colorado --Mesa Verde National Park
- Collection Created:
- [Detroit, Mich.] :
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, no. 53116
2. Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde. General View. no. 53117
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1897-1924
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 121
- Collection Title:
- Photographic views of North America
- Container / Volume:
- Vol. 2
- Image Count:
- 2
- Publisher:
- Detroit Photographic Co. or Detroit Publishing Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Pueblo Indians --Antiquities
- Subject (Topic):
- Cliff-dwellings --Colorado and Indians of North America --Homes and haunts --Colorado --Mesa Verde National Park
- Collection Created:
- [Detroit, Mich.] :
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde. General View. no. 53117
3. Photograph album of cliff dwellings at the Mancos Site and Mesa Verde, Colorado.
- Creator:
- Chapin, Frederick H. (Frederick Hastings)
- Published / Created:
- 1889-1890.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 328
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- Album of photographs created by Frederick Hastings Chapin, a pharmacist and mountaineer from Hartford, Connecticut, documenting the cliff-dwellings and ruins at the Mancos Site and Mesa Verde in Montezuma County, Colorado, during the summers of 1889 and 1890. Images include detailed views of the cliff houses and other structures in Mancos Canyon, Cliff Canyon, and a branch of Johnson Canyon known as Acowitz Canyon. Other images include views of the La Plata Mountains and other geological formations in the area, contemporary American Indian wickiups made by Ute Indians, and the ranch of Richard Wetherill, a local homesteader who uncovered the Mancos Site in December 1888. Identified individuals in images include Richard Wetherill cinching the loads on packhorses, his brother John Wetherill, looking through the window of a granary, and a man wearing jodhpurs and high boots identified as probably Chapin.
- Description:
- Individual photographs measure 11.6 x 18.1 cm., Manuscript captions in ink at bottom of each photograph., Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2004., Spine title: Mancos Canon., and Title devised by cataloger.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Cliff Canyon (Colo.)--Pictorial works., Johnson Canyon (Colo.)--Pictorial works, La Plata Mountains--Pictorial works, Mancos Canyon (Colo.)--Pictorial works, Mancos Site (Colo.)--Pictorial works, Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--Pictorial works, and Montezuma County (Colo.)--Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Chapin, Frederick H. (Frederick Hastings), Wetherill, John, and Wetherill, Richard, 1858-1910
- Subject (Topic):
- Cliff-dwellings--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Pictorial works, and Mountains--Colorado--Pictorial works
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photograph album of cliff dwellings at the Mancos Site and Mesa Verde, Colorado.
4. [Thomas H. MacDonald road inspection trip logs]
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1880
- Collection Title:
- Thomas H. MacDonald road inspection trip logs
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 12
- Abstract:
- Among the men who accompanied MacDonald on the trips were L. I. Hewes, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Bureau, mechanics George E. Campbell and William Gildersleeve, H. S. Fairbank, and Pyke Johnson. A mounted newspaper clipping from the July 22, 1925 issue of the Rocky Mountain News regarding MacDonald's visit to Colorado and federal funds for Colorado highway projects is laid in the second log. and Three typescript orginal and carbon copy logs of road inspection trips in the western United States made by MacDonald between 1922 and 1927. The three logs, dated July 6-August 10, 1922, June 15-July 29, 1925, and September 14-October 26, 1927, contain itineraries, mileage, remarks, and captioned photographs documenting the trips in California, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. The photographs document road conditions; construction projects; the inspectors; Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; and scenery, particularly Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks in Utah, the Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Colorado, and the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks in Wyoming.
- Description:
- Purchased from Fred White, Sr. on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1981. and Thomas H. MacDonald was an engineer and chief of the United States Bureau of Public Roads.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah)--Pictorial works, Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--Pictorial works, Grand Teton National Park (Wyo.)--Pictorial works, Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--Pictorial works, Taos Pueblo (N.M.)--Pictorial works, Yellowstone National Park--Pictorial works, and Zion National Park (Utah)--Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Campbell, George E., fl. 1922, Fairbank, H. S, Gildersleeve, William, Hewes, Laurence I. (Laurence Ilsley), 1876-1950, Johnson, Pyke, 1888-1969, MacDonald, Thomas H. (Thomas Harris), 1881-1957, and United States. Bureau of Public Roads
- Subject (Topic):
- Automobile travel--West (U.S.), Indians of North America--New Mexico--Pictorial works, National parks and reserves--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works, Roads--Design and construction (West (U.S.), Roads--Inspection--Arizona, Roads--Inspection--California, Roads--Inspection--Colorado, Roads--Inspection--Idaho, Roads--Inspection--Montana, Roads--Inspection--Nevada, Roads--Inspection--New Mexico, Roads--Inspection--Oregon, Roads--Inspection--Utah, and Roads--Inspection--Washington (State)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Thomas H. MacDonald road inspection trip logs]
