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2.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1415
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 79
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- The diary records an 1874 voyage from New York via Panama to California. The unidentified author describes the weather, the ship's progress, shipboard life, Aspinwall (Colón), Panama, the train trip across the Isthmus, the landscape and villages, Acapulco, and the voyage to San Francisco. There is a detailed description of San Francisco and more information on California towns, agriculture, mining, flora and fauna. The diary also chronicles a train trip from Rocklin, California to Reno, Nevada, where the author found work on an alfalfa farm. The author continued overland by train through Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska to Chicago and then Detroit. The author traveled to New York by way of Niagara Falls and The volume includes illustrations of California, Nevada, and Niagara Falls as well as maps of the railroad routes. There is a list of the illustrations and a list of plants identified. The author also created an abstract of the diary in the back of the volume
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nevada., United States., West (U.S.), Acapulco (Mexico), Colón (Panama), California, Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Nevada, Panama, Salt Lake City (Utah), and San Francisco (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- Central Pacific Railroad Company., Colon (Steamship), Montana (Steamship), Panama Railroad Co., and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Agriculture, Alfalfa, Railroad travel, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diary of a voyage from New York to California and return trip by train, 1874-1875
3.
- Creator:
- Larss, P. E. (Per Edward), photographer, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1908]
- Call Number:
- BrSide4o Zc72 908Laz 01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Postcard from a photograph by P.E. Larson depicts four dismounted men and four burros at a summit in the Funeral Mountains; looking out over Death Valley below
- Description:
- Title from caption in lower right of image., Imprint from recto, lower left., and Recto, lower left: No. 4129.
- Publisher:
- Palm Studio
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nevada, Goldfield, Funeral Mountains (Calif.), and Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold mines and mining
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dismounting on summit of Funeral Range : looking down Death Valley, Cal
4.
- Creator:
- Neighbour, Hugh M. (Hugh Mears), b. 1888
- Published / Created:
- 1910-1939.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 241
- Container / Volume:
- Box 3
- Image Count:
- 86
- Abstract:
- Photographs of: Neighbour surveying and camping in Montana and Nevada; Shoshone and Piute Indians in Nevada and Zuni Indians in New Mexico; students and buildings at the University of Montana at Missoula in 1911-1912; people and buildings in Gallup, Ramah, and Santa Fe, New Mexico; cattle herding at Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico; the Gillespie Dam, Arizona at the time of the flood of the Gila River, in 1923; aftermath of the Long Beach Earthquake of 1933; and the Orange County California Flood of 1938 (these made by Watson Airfotos, Inc.).
- Description:
- Hugh M. Neighbour, senior, an engineer and surveyor who studied in Montana and worked in Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California., Nitrate negatives accompanying the collection were discarded according to Yale University policy in 2023. Digital surrogates are available., Accompanied by a box list., and Many of the photographs are accompanied by later copy prints with manuscript captions on verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.), Nevada, New Mexico, California, Long Beach, Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.), and Orange County
- Subject (Name):
- Neighbour, Hugh M. b. 1888. (Hugh Mears),, Watson Airfotos, Inc., and University of Montana--Missoula
- Subject (Topic):
- Surveyors, Paiute Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Zuni Indians, Earthquakes, and Floods
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hugh M. Neighbour photographs of the west
5.
- Creator:
- Neighbour, Hugh M. (Hugh Mears), b. 1888
- Published / Created:
- 1910-1939.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 241
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 234
- Abstract:
- Photographs of: Neighbour surveying and camping in Montana and Nevada; Shoshone and Piute Indians in Nevada and Zuni Indians in New Mexico; students and buildings at the University of Montana at Missoula in 1911-1912; people and buildings in Gallup, Ramah, and Santa Fe, New Mexico; cattle herding at Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico; the Gillespie Dam, Arizona at the time of the flood of the Gila River, in 1923; aftermath of the Long Beach Earthquake of 1933; and the Orange County California Flood of 1938 (these made by Watson Airfotos, Inc.).
- Description:
- Hugh M. Neighbour, senior, an engineer and surveyor who studied in Montana and worked in Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California., Nitrate negatives accompanying the collection were discarded according to Yale University policy in 2023. Digital surrogates are available., Accompanied by a box list., and Many of the photographs are accompanied by later copy prints with manuscript captions on verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.), Nevada, New Mexico, California, Long Beach, Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.), and Orange County
- Subject (Name):
- Neighbour, Hugh M. b. 1888. (Hugh Mears),, Watson Airfotos, Inc., and University of Montana--Missoula
- Subject (Topic):
- Surveyors, Paiute Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Zuni Indians, Earthquakes, and Floods
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hugh M. Neighbour photographs of the west
6.
- Creator:
- Neighbour, Hugh M. (Hugh Mears), b. 1888
- Published / Created:
- 1910-1939.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 241
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2
- Image Count:
- 332
- Abstract:
- Photographs of: Neighbour surveying and camping in Montana and Nevada; Shoshone and Piute Indians in Nevada and Zuni Indians in New Mexico; students and buildings at the University of Montana at Missoula in 1911-1912; people and buildings in Gallup, Ramah, and Santa Fe, New Mexico; cattle herding at Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico; the Gillespie Dam, Arizona at the time of the flood of the Gila River, in 1923; aftermath of the Long Beach Earthquake of 1933; and the Orange County California Flood of 1938 (these made by Watson Airfotos, Inc.).
- Description:
- Hugh M. Neighbour, senior, an engineer and surveyor who studied in Montana and worked in Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California., Nitrate negatives accompanying the collection were discarded according to Yale University policy in 2023. Digital surrogates are available., Accompanied by a box list., and Many of the photographs are accompanied by later copy prints with manuscript captions on verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.), Nevada, New Mexico, California, Long Beach, Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.), and Orange County
- Subject (Name):
- Neighbour, Hugh M. b. 1888. (Hugh Mears),, Watson Airfotos, Inc., and University of Montana--Missoula
- Subject (Topic):
- Surveyors, Paiute Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Zuni Indians, Earthquakes, and Floods
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hugh M. Neighbour photographs of the west
7.
- Creator:
- Crawford, Jack Randall, 1878-
- Published / Created:
- 1907-1908.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 91
- Image Count:
- 188
- Abstract:
- Photographs of copper and gold mining activities, camps and miners in Nevada and California, and of a trail ride through the Grand Canyon in Arizona. In Nevada there are views of the Mohawk Mine in Goldfield, the J. R. Crawford Copper Mine and camp near Schurz, and the boom town of Rawhide, Photographs of California include views of Mt. Grant, Mt. Wilson, the San Gabriel Range of the Sierra Nevada Mountains along the Arroyo Seco, and the Tarantula Mine, There are also photographic and photomechanical postcards, many in color, depicting Donner Lake, Sonora, Sacremento and San Francisco in California, and views of Reno and the mining towns of Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada. A double-postcard depicts a panoramic view of the Truckee River and dam. Two postcards are addressed to J. Randall Crawford at the Princeton Club in New York and a third is addressed to Mrs. J. R. Crawford in England, and J. R. Crawford is present in many of the photographs, including an interior view of the Tarantula Mine eight hundred feet below the surface
- Description:
- Detailed manuscript captions are in the hand of J.R. Crawford. Several photographs and all of the postcards are views by commercial photographers in Nevada and California (Kennedy, Larson, Mitchell, Owens, Rieder, and Weidner). and Jack Randall Crawford received his B.S. and M.A. from Princeton University (1901, 1903). From 1909 to 1946 he was an Associate Professor of English at Yale University.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nevada., California., Goldfield (Nev.), Reno (Nev.), Ragtown (Nev.), Tonopah (Nev.), Nevada, Sierra Madre Mountains (Calif.), California, and Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
- Subject (Name):
- Crawford, Jack Randall, 1878- and Tarantula Mine (Calif.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold mines and mining, Copper mines and mining, and Mines and mineral resources
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Jack Randall Crawford collection of photographs of mining operations in Arizona, Nevada and California [graphic].
8.
- Creator:
- Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1875.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos Folio 20
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- Mammoth-plate photographs of Gold Hill and Virginia City in the Comstock region of Nevada, showing the Consolidated Virginia Battery Mill and Hoisting Works in Virginia City, the Ophir hoisting works, and a view of town of Gold Hill from the Wheeler monument
- Description:
- Manuscript captions and numbers on verso. and After working as a photographer with the California State Geological Survey and the U. S. Corps of Engineers Survey of the 40th Parallel, Carleton Watkins traveled independently to Nevada, arriving in Comstock in 1875. He photographed the mining towns of Gold Hill and Virginia City in 1875-1876.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nevada, Gold Hill (Nev.), and Virginia City (Nev.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Mineral industries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mammoth-plate photographs of Gold Hill and Virginia City, Nevada [graphic].
9.
- Creator:
- Goin, Peter, 1951- photographer
- Published / Created:
- 2011.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos Folio 163 (Oversize)
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portfolio of inkjet prints of photographs by Peter Goin that document nuclear test sites at Nevada Test Site, Nevada, and at Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, as well as the radioactive waste repository at Hanford Site, Washington, circa 1986-1988. Printed by Scott C. Hinton in 2011. The portfolio includes a title card printed by Robert E. Blesse of the Black Rock Press. Most of the images appeared in Peter Goin, Nuclear Landscapes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).
- Description:
- Peter Goin (born 1951) is an American photographer known for his work within the altered landscape., Scott C. Hinton (born 1974) is an American photographer and printer., Robert E. Blesse (born 1946) is an American special collections librarian and director of the Black Rock Press of the University of Nevada, Reno, Library., Finding aid available., Captions and inscriptions in English., Title from title card., Captions in the printed image., Versos signed and numbered by the photographer., and Copy 3 of limited edition of 3.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Marshall Islands, Nevada, Washington (State), Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands), Enewetak Atoll (Marshall Islands), Hanford Site (Wash.), Nevada Test Site (Nev.), New Mexico, Trinity Site (N.M.), and White Sands Missile Range (N.M.)
- Subject (Name):
- Blesse, Robert E., Goin, Peter, 1951-, Hinton, Scott C., 1974-, and Black Rock Press.
- Subject (Topic):
- Nuclear weapons, Testing, and Radioactive waste repositories
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Nuclear landscapes : Portfolio of forty-four photographs and Trinity panorama
10.
- Creator:
- Goin, Peter, 1951- photographer
- Published / Created:
- 2011.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos Folio 163 (Oversize)
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 104
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portfolio of inkjet prints of photographs by Peter Goin that document nuclear test sites at Nevada Test Site, Nevada, and at Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, as well as the radioactive waste repository at Hanford Site, Washington, circa 1986-1988. Printed by Scott C. Hinton in 2011. The portfolio includes a title card printed by Robert E. Blesse of the Black Rock Press. Most of the images appeared in Peter Goin, Nuclear Landscapes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).
- Description:
- Peter Goin (born 1951) is an American photographer known for his work within the altered landscape., Scott C. Hinton (born 1974) is an American photographer and printer., Robert E. Blesse (born 1946) is an American special collections librarian and director of the Black Rock Press of the University of Nevada, Reno, Library., Finding aid available., Captions and inscriptions in English., Title from title card., Captions in the printed image., Versos signed and numbered by the photographer., and Copy 3 of limited edition of 3.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Marshall Islands, Nevada, Washington (State), Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands), Enewetak Atoll (Marshall Islands), Hanford Site (Wash.), Nevada Test Site (Nev.), New Mexico, Trinity Site (N.M.), and White Sands Missile Range (N.M.)
- Subject (Name):
- Blesse, Robert E., Goin, Peter, 1951-, Hinton, Scott C., 1974-, and Black Rock Press.
- Subject (Topic):
- Nuclear weapons, Testing, and Radioactive waste repositories
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Nuclear landscapes : Portfolio of forty-four photographs and Trinity panorama
