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1. Western life : the trapper

Creator:: Deas, Charles, 1818-1867, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1855]
Call Number:: WA Prints +189
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image and text
Abstract:: Print reproduces Charles Deas's 1844 oil painting, "Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man." Print depicts a bearded male trapper on horseback; horse, black with white blaze on forehead, facing right, head turned down and toward viewer; trapper's body facing right, half-turned to center, with head turned back to left; wearing a red tunic, buskskins, moccasins, spurs, and hat; carrying long gun in his right hand, reins in his left; mountains and sky in background
Alternative Title:: Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man
Description:: Title from caption below image. and Date from metadata for another instance (black and white) of this print held by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas.
Publisher:: published by M. Knoedler, successor to Goupil & Co. and printed at J.H. Bufford's
Subject (Geographic):: West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):: Trappers and Hunters
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Western life : the trapper

2. W. H. Holmes collection of photographs of Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming Territories and Mexico [graphic].

Published / Created:: ca. 1870-1898.
Call Number:: WA Photos 89
Image Count:: 60
Abstract:: Photographs by William Henry Jackson and others of Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho, including views in Utah of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers, the Great Natural Bridge, the Great Dragon Rock, Echo and Marble Canyons and Monument Park. There are also photographs of the Garden of the Gods and Uncompagre peak in the San Juan mountains of Colorado, and views of the Yellowstone River and of the Badlands in Wyoming, and Port Neuf Canyon in Idaho. In Mexico, there is a view of Popcatapetl peak
Description:: William Henry Holmes was a topographic artist with the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories under Ferdinand V. Hayden. In 1872 and again in 1878 he was with Hayden in the Yellowstone, and in 1874 he and the photographer William Henry Jackson explored the Mesa Verde region of Colorado. Holmes headed a division exploring the San Juan Region of Colorado in 1875, and was later in Idaho., Holmes continued his work as a geologist and topographer with the United States Geological Survey in the Grand Canyon in 1880, and his topographic drawings became the basic illustrations for Clarence E. Dutton's 'Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon.' He later served as chief of archaeological field work with the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution., and Manuscript captions written on verso of many photographs and inscribed into negatives of others. The single photograph by G. Wharton James bears a Bureau of Ethnology stamp.
Subject (Geographic):: Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Yellowstone River, Grand Canyon (Ariz.), and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):: Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > W. H. Holmes collection of photographs of Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming Territories and Mexico [graphic].

3. Union Pacific R.R. views

Creator:: Russell, Andrew J.
Published / Created:: [187-?]
Call Number:: WA Photos 257
Image Count:: 51
Abstract:: Photograph album containing 26 views of the West and the Union Pacific Railroad, probably distributed by C. M. Loomis, dealer in musical merchandise in New Haven, Connecticut. The album contains advertisements by other New Haven businesses on the front pastedown and versos of almost every photograph. The First leaf of the album is a photograph of C. M. Loomis by J. K Bundy. Other businesses represented are: Henry Austin, Architect; Wheeler & Wilson; J.N. Isbell & Co., Photographers (with a mounted portrait photograph); R.C. Russell, Architect (with a mounted photograph of a building); and John E. Bassett & Co.
Description:: The photographs of the west are reduced images from Andrew J. Russell's The Great West Illustrated., Letterpress captions on mounts., and Title from cover.
Publisher:: s.n.
Subject (Geographic):: West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):: Austin, Henry, 1804-1891., Bundy, J. K., Loomis, C. M. 1829-1890. (Clark Merrick),, C.M. Loomis, Sons (New Haven, Conn.), J.N. Isbell & Co. (New Haven, Conn.), John E. Bassett & Company., Russell, R. C., Union Pacific Railroad Company, and Wheeler & Wilson Company.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Union Pacific R.R. views

4. The surprise

Creator:: Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist
Published / Created:: [1858]
Call Number:: BrSides Zc10 858maz 01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print depicts two white men pursuing an Indigenous man; all on horseback. In the foreground, one rider has tossed a lasso toward the Indigenous man
Description:: Title from printed caption. and Below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the district court of the Southern District of New York.
Publisher:: Published by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):: West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):: Indians of North America
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The surprise

5. The smoke signal

Creator:: Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909, artist
Published / Created:: [1957]
Call Number:: WA Prints +219
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image and text
Abstract:: Print reproduces a 1905 painting by Remington called 'The smoke signal' that depicts three Crow Native American men with three horses, one roan, one black, and one white with a red right hand print (as a brand) on its left buttock and a bird's feather tied into its tail; two of the Crow men are dismounted, kneeling on the hill-side signalling with smoke
Publisher:: Reproduced by the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago by permission of the copyright owner, the Remington Art Memorial
Subject (Topic):: Crow Indians, Indians of North America, Great Plains, and West (U.S.)
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The smoke signal

6. The pursuit

Creator:: Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, lithographer
Published / Created:: [1856]
Call Number:: BrSides Zc10 856md
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait in a lithograph by Louis Maurer for Currier & Ives; it depicts trappers pursuing in combat Indigenous persons on horseback. In the foreground, one pair of riders; a trapper, on saddled roan mount, wearing hat and animal-skin clothing, aiming a pistol with his right hand; an Indigenous person, bareback on black horse, leaning to left side of mount, looking back, holding a spear in his right hand; in the mid-ground, more riders in thel tall grass; in the background, largely cloudy sky with a single bird in flight; a little less than half the print shows the sky
Description:: Title from printed caption below image. and Below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by N. Currier, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern Distt. of N.Y.
Publisher:: Pubd. by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):: West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):: Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, and Frontier and pioneer life
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The pursuit

7. The prairie hunter : "one rubbed out"

Creator:: Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 181901905, artist
Published / Created:: [1852]
Call Number:: WA Prints +136
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image and text
Abstract:: Print shows four Native American men on horseback chasing a trapper through tall grass, from left to right; one of the Native American men is falling off his horse; the trapper is looking back at them, and he appears to have just shot the falling Native American; more than half the image is sky
Alternative Title:: One rubbed out
Description:: Title from caption below image., Signature in reverse on print in lower right: O. Knirsch 1852., and Text below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by N. Currier, in the clerk's office in the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y.
Publisher:: N. Currier
Subject (Geographic):: Great Plains and West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):: Indians of North America and First contact with Europeans
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The prairie hunter : "one rubbed out"

8. The last war-whoop

Creator:: Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, lithographer
Published / Created:: [c1856]
Call Number:: BrSides Zc10 856mc
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait that depicts a trapper on horseback holding a long gun, looking down at a Indigenous man who has been shot and unhorsed from his mount. The fallen man props himself up with one hand and raises his right hand to his mouth as he shouts. He wears a leather shirt, leggings and beaded moccasins. He is leaning on his bow and his shield. There is a spear on the ground in front of him. Other white men are in the background to the right looking back at others (Indigenous persons?) who are in the far distance further to the right
Description:: BEIN BrSides Zc10 856mc: On sheet 52 x 73 cm., Title from caption below image., After a painting by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait that is the companian piece to "The pursuit.", and Copyright 1856 by N. Currier.
Publisher:: Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street
Subject (Geographic):: West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):: Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, Frontier and pioneer life, and Wars
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The last war-whoop

9. The last shot

Creator:: Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist
Published / Created:: [1858]
Call Number:: BrSides Zc10 858mb
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print depicts an unhorsed trapper beside his fallen horse; he is shooting a dismounted indigenous man who has a tomahawk raised in his right hand as he approaches the trapper. In the background, two horses, one riderless, grassland and sky; a little less than half the print shows the partly cloudy sky
Description:: Title from printed caption below image. and Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern Dist. of N.Y.
Publisher:: Pubd. by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):: West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):: Indians of North America and Trappers
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The last shot

10. The great West illustrated in a series of photographic views across the Continent taken along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad, west from Omaha, Nebraska : with an annotated table of contents, giving a brief description of each view, its peculiarities, characteristics, and connection with the different points on the road, Vol. 1

Creator:: Russell, Andrew J.
Published / Created:: 1869.
Call Number:: WA Photos 399
Image Count:: 74
Abstract:: Viewbook with mounted albumen photographic prints of images created by Andrew J. Russell of locations along the Union Pacific Railroad in Utah and Wyoming, and printed by David H. Prime in New York, 1869, by authority of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Photographs primarily show canyons, mountains, rock formations, and cuts along the railroad, as well as overviews of several towns and of buildings in Salt Lake City, and a couple group portraits. The photographs are geographically organized in the volume from locations along the railroad from east to west, Images of Laramie, Wyoming, include images of the Laramie Hotel, a large windmill, and the railroad machine shops of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. An exterior group portrait depicts officials gathered at Fort Sanders near Laramie, Wyoming, during the summer of 1868, which include Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, and Sidney Dillon, a director of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Images of rivers in Wyoming include views of the Laramie River and the Little Laramie River, as well as several images of Dale Creek that include a view of the Dale Creek Trestle, a wooden railroad bridge, and a view of Devil's Gate in the creek canyon, Images of railroad cuts in Wyoming include Burning Rock Cut, Carmichael's Cut, Hall's Cut, and Malloy's Cut, Images of rock outcroppings in Wyoming include views of Camel Rocks (identified as Granite Rock) near Buford (identified as Beaufort Station), Church Buttes near Fort Bridger, Dial Rock in the Laramie Basin, High Bluffs near Black Buttes, and Skull Rock near Sherman Station, Images of rock outcroppings in the Green River Valley in Wyoming and Utah include Castle Rock, Citadel Rock, and Smith's Buttes. Other images of locations in the Green River Valley include views of mountains and a supply train on the railroad, Incidental images of Wyoming include a view of snow and timber line in the Laramie Mountains, and a view of Granite Canyon from a water tank, Images of places and structures related to Brigham Young in Utah include views of his residences, known as the Beehive House and Lion House in Salt Lake City; one of these images includes the foundation for the Salt Lake Temple in the foreground. Another image shows his cotton and woolen mills in Parley Canyon with the Wasatch Range in the distance, Images of Bear River City, Utah, include an overview of the city and an image of the coal beds on the Bear River, as well as an image of a construction train in the Bear River Valley in Utah or Wyoming, Images of Echo Canyon, Utah, and vicinity include views of several rock outcroppings, including Death's Rock, Monument Rock, and Rock Great Eastern, Images of Echo, Utah, and vicinity include an overview of the city, as well as several rock formations, including Hanging Rock, Sentinel Rock, and Sphinx Rock, Images of the Weber River and Weber Canyon (identified as the Weber River Valley or Weber Valley), Utah, include a view of the city of Coalville; views of Wilhelmina Pass (identified as the Narrows of Weber Canyon); a view of Devil's Gate without a bridge, and a view of the Mormon Turnpike Bridge at the mouth of the canyon, and Incidental photographs of Utah include a view of City Creek Canyon; a portrait of a Mormon family in the Great Salt River Valley, and an image of the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City
Description:: The front and back boards of the book are both imprinted with the shortened title of the book, "Union Pacific Railroad. Photographical Illustrations."
Publisher:: printed by David H. Prime by authority of the Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Geographic):: Bear River (Utah-Idaho), Bear River City (Utah), City Creek (Salt Lake County, Utah), Coalville (Utah), Dale Creek (Colo. and Wyo.), Echo (Utah), Echo Canyon (Utah), Fort Sanders (Wyo.), Great Salt Lake Valley (Utah), Green River (Wyo.-Utah), Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah), Laramie (Wyo.), Laramie Basin (Wyo.), Laramie Mountains (Wyo. and Colo.), Laramie River (Colo. and Wyo.), Little Laramie River (Wyo.), Parley Canyon (Utah), Utah, Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho), Weber Canyon (Utah), Weber River (Utah), Weber River Valley (Utah), West (U.S.), Wilhelmina Pass (Utah), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):: Dillon, Sidney, 1812-1892, Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885 (Ulysses Simpson),, Prime, David H., printer., Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888, Sherman, William T. 1820-1891 (William Tecumseh),, Young, Brigham, 1801-1877, Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Laramie Hotel (Laramie, Wyoming), Lion House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Salt Lake Temple, Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah), Union Pacific Railroad Company., and Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Railroad repair shops
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The great West illustrated in a series of photographic views across the Continent taken along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad, west from Omaha, Nebraska : with an annotated table of contents, giving a brief description of each view, its peculiarities, characteristics, and connection with the different points on the road, Vol. 1