ALS written by William Blackmore to his sister Blanche Blackmore while travelling to Duluth, Minnesota on board the steamboat Metropolis. The letter describes Blackmore's impressions of the Apostle Island region of Lake Superior and gives an account of his recent experiences in the Middle West, including travel by train as a guest of stockholders and directors of iron mines visiting mines in the Lake Superior region; impressions of Chicago and news received there regarding the Hayden Expedition; and a visit to a lumber mill on Lake Michigan. Blackmore also briefly discusses his plans to continue travel to Sidney, Nebraska, and Denver, Colorado.
Alternative Title:
[Letter: William Blackmore to Blanche Blackmore]
Description:
William Blackmore was a London businessman and an authority on American Indians of the Plains.
Subject (Geographic):
Chicago (Ill.)--Description and travel and Great Lakes Region (North America)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Blackmore, Blanche, Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), and Metropolis (Steamboat)
Subject (Topic):
Iron mines and mining--Superior, Lake and Lumber trade--Middle West
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887 Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942.
Published / Created:
1873
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 53
Container / Volume:
Copy 1
Image Count:
93
Abstract:
Two copies of a viewbook distributed by the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories in 1873 with mounted photographic prints created by William Henry Jackson of camps, geothermal features, and landscape primarily in Yellowstone
Description:
Both volumes have the same contents of photographic prints with variations in the orientation of prints in the binding. Photographs accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letter-press and attached to U.S.G.S. mounts.
Publisher:
Govt. Print. Off.
Subject (Geographic):
Montana., Teton Range (Wyo. and Idaho), Utah., Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho), West (U.S.), Wyoming., Yellowstone National Park., and Yellowstone River Valley.
Subject (Name):
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Camp sites, facilities, etc., Landscape photography., and Rock formations
Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887. Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Published / Created:
1873
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 53
Image Count:
94
Description:
Copy 2 possesses slightly more gilded ornamentation on its boards as well as gilded edges to the individual mounts. Both volumes have the same contents of photographic prints with variations in the orientation of prints on the binding.
Publisher:
Govt. Print. Off.
Subject (Geographic):
Idaho., Montana., Teton Range (Wyo. and Idaho), Utah., Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho), Wyoming., Yellowstone National Park., and Yellowstone River Valley.
Subject (Name):
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) and Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942.
