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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:
- 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
4.
- 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
5.
- Published / Created:
- 1884
- Call Number:
- Zc10 885up
- Collection Title:
- Range and ranch cattle
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Maps, Atlases & Globes
- Description:
- Verso blank.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Arizona, Colorado, Dakota Territory, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington (State), and Wyoming
- Subject (Name):
- Nimmo, Joseph, 1837-1909
- Subject (Topic):
- Cattle --West (U.S.) and Ranches --West (U.S.)
- Collection Created:
- [Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1885]
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The range and ranch cattle area of the United States
