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1.
Photograph album of a railroad journey from New York to California [graphic].

Creator:
Barrett, Frank N.
Published / Created:
1889.
Call Number:
WA Photos 17
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Photograph album relating to Frank N. Barrett's cross-country trip from New York to California in 1889, titled "From Ocean to Ocean." The album contains newspaper clippings and other emphemera in addition to commercial photographs of scenery and sites in Chicago, Philadelphia, Kansas City, various parts of New Mexico, Arizona, and Oregon, and scenery in Yellowstone National Park, New York and California and Views in California include Coronado, San Diego, Point Loma, San Gabriel Valley in Pomona, San Jose Valley, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Del Monte, San Rafael, Sacramento, Fresno, Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Sierra Madre Mountains, Mt. Tamalpais, and Mt. Shasta
Description:
Frank N. Barrett was secretary of the New York Mercantile Exchange and the editor of American Grocer when he travelled from New York to California in order to study that state's "contribution to the world food supply." The newspaper clippings represent the letters he sent back to the American Grocer, published under the heading "From Ocean to Ocean: Notes by the Way" in 1889., Accompanied by two folders, one containing a 26-page typescript with manuscript annotations describing the cross-country trip illustrated in the album, and the other containing clippings and miscellaneous commercial photographs of scenery along the route of the trip., and Album pages are extremely fragile.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Barrett, Frank N.
Subject (Topic):
Railroad travel and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photograph album of a railroad journey from New York to California [graphic].

2.
Taking the back track : a dangerous neighborhood

Creator:
Cameron, James, 1817-1882, artist
Published / Created:
[1866]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 866ca
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Lithograph reproduces a painting by James Cameron that depicts a small party of trappers of with horses and with pack mules hiding near a rocky, tree-topped hill to avoid being seen by a large group of indigenous persons approaching them on horseback in the tall grass of the middle-ground
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 866ca: On verso: Manuscript instructions for matting; manuscript notes: Sir John Hesketh Lethbridge from his dear son, "Albert." Ottawa, Canada West. Framed by W. Lee, Barnstaple, in 1871., Title from caption below image., Signature of Cameron within image., and Below image: Entered by act of Congress AD 1866 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of N.Y.
Publisher:
Published by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Trappers
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Taking the back track : a dangerous neighborhood

3.
A parley : prepared for an emergency

Creator:
Cameron, John, approximately 1828- artist
Published / Created:
[1868]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 856ca
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Print by John Cameron depicts, in the left foreground, two trappers with horses and pack animals waiting and watching on guard; in the middle ground, a trapper and a Native American ride toward each other to talk; in the background, more Native Americans on horseback in the distance; mountains and sky in the top half of the image
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image: Entered by act of Congress A.D. 1868 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of N.Y.
Publisher:
Published by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Warfare, and Trappers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A parley : prepared for an emergency

4.
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

5.
Buffalo chase

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +70
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of a painting by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground two Native Americans on horseback, one with a long gun, the other with bow and arrow, hunting buffalo. In the background, the scene is of the riverine plains. The upper three-quarters of the image are of sky
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 9.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Buffalo chase

6.
Fort Defiance at Cañoncito Bonito, New Mexico: built in 1851-52

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +83
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of a work by Seth Eastman from a sketch by J. H. Eaton. Depicts Fort Defiance as built in 1851-1852. In the foreground, Native Americans approach the fort in a line on horseback; within the fort, U.S. Army soldiers drill. The fort is at the foot of an escarpment. One-third of the image is of sky
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 29.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Defiance (Ariz.) and West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fort Defiance at Cañoncito Bonito, New Mexico: built in 1851-52

7.
Hunter dismounted

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +69
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of a drawning by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground a European American on foot hunting buffalo with a long gun. The scene is of the rolling, grassy plains with bison in the distance. The upper two-thirds of the image are of sky
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hunter dismounted

8.
Hunting the buffalo in winter

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +68
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of an oil painting by Seth Eastman that depicts two Native Americans on snowshoes hunting buffalo in a winter scene
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 10.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hunting the buffalo in winter

9.
Skinning the buffalo

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +71
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of a drawing by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground two Native Americans, on foot with saddled horses nearby, skinning a buffalo. In the background, the scene is of the riverine plains and distant hill tops. The upper half of the image is of sky
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 13.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Skinning the buffalo

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