Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates of anchorages, and occasionally events on board ship or shore. Ten watercolors are of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, eight of them signed by Bacstrom and fully executed after his return. There are ten views of the Northwest Coast of America, including Nootka Sound and Queen Charlotte's Island, and Native American villages at Norfolk Sound and Fitzhugh Sound. There are two maps of Queen Charlotte's Island, six watercolors of canoes from the Northwest Coast and the Pacific Islands, and four drawings of Native American and Pacific island ethnographic objects and There are eighteen watercolor sketches and drawings of the coast of South America and the islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Staaten Island near Cape Horn. Other drawings include ten watercolors of Chinese men and women, a pencil drawing of a Chinese junk, and a watercolor of an American tea plant. The drawings are accompanied by a highly finished watercolor of the Greenland Whale Fishery not made during the voyage, and a manuscript catalog of "some accurate and characteristic original drawings" made on the voyage with prices; not all of the drawings listed correspond to drawings present in the collection
Description:
Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon on several ships, visiting China, India, the Cape, and the Americas., Accompanied by a container list., Manuscript captions., and View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
Two versions of a viewbook, each with a different binding, that consist of photographs along the Columbia River, as well as images of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, created by Isaac Grundy Davidson and compiled by printer George H. Himes, both from Portland, Oregon, ca. 1879. One volume bound in wood and ebony, and the other volume bound in leather. Several images relate to the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad and to the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, General overviews of the Columbia River include views of the Lower Cascades and Upper Cascades, as well as a copy photograph from a painting. Views along the Columbia River in Washington include Beacon Rock (referred to as Castle Rock), Gibraltar Rock, Cape Horn, and Cape Disappointment at the mouth of river, as well as a view of Bradford Island in Oregon, Images of Idaho along the Clark Fork River include views of Cabinet Gorge and of the communities of Clark Fork and Cabinet, as well as images of railway construction by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company that consist of a trestle bridge under construction at Clark Fork and railway grading at Big Bluff. Other images of Idaho include the military compound at Fort Coeur d'Alene (which became Fort Sherman), Coeur d'Alene Lake, and locations along the Snake River, Images of Oregon include views of rock formations consisting of Rooster Rock and Twin Rocks; views of waterfalls that include Bridal Veil Falls, Latourell Falls, and Multnomah Falls; views of a train of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company along the Umatilla River and Crested Butte; views of Meacham Creek and Meacham Creek Canyon; and views of the Oregon cities of Astoria and Portland, Photographs of Washington include several views of the Spokane Falls on the Spokane River; several views of Mount Rainier (identified as Mount Tacoma); overviews of Seattle that show Puget Sound; a view of North Fork Canyon of the Puyallup River; and a view of a railroad trestle near Riparia on the Snake River, and The volume with leather binding includes two additional images that consist of a view of the breakers at Cape Disappointment and a copy photograph of the painting by maritime artist Cleveland Rockwell that depicts of the mouth of the Columbia River
Description:
The complete title of the volume is “Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Glimpses of pretty spots along the valley of the Columbia River from Northern Montana to the Pacific Ocean. Scenery along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, showing the new trans-continental route in process of construction.”, The ebony and wood bound volume includes statement on the title page, “Bound in Oregon woods and Alaska cedar, prepared by the Oregon Furniture Manufacturing Company.”, Photographic prints mounted on boards with letterpress captions below each print., Captions in several negatives., and The leather bound volume includes a receipt laid in from the Cadmus Book Shop, New York, to Edward Eberstadt, 1923.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Astoria (Or.), Beacon Rock (Wash.), Bradford Island (Or.), Bridal Veil Falls (Or.), Cabinet (Idaho), Cape Disappointment State Park (Wash.), Clark Fork (Idaho : Town), Clark Fork (Mont. and Idaho), Coeur d'Alene Lake (Idaho), Columbia River, Fort Sherman (Idaho), Idaho, Latourell Falls (Or.), Meacham Creek (Or.), Meacham Creek Canyon (Or.), Multnomah Falls (Or.), Oregon, Portland (Or.), Puget Sound (Wash.), Puyallup River (Wash.), Rainier, Mount (Wash.), Riparia (Wash.), Seattle (Wash.), Snake River (Wyo.-Wash.), Spokane Falls (Wash. : Waterfall), Umatilla River (Or.), and Washington (State)
Subject (Name):
Davidson, I. G. 1845-1922. (Isaac Grundy),, Himes, George H., 1844-1940., Rockwell, Cleveland, 1837-1907., Northern Pacific Railway Company, Oregon Furniture Manufacturing Company., and Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
