Large format photograph (10 Ergebnisse)

Photograph. Zustand: Good +. Photograph [13 cm x 18 cm] on a plain black card mount [15 cm x 25 cm]. Photgrapher unknown. Written in white ink on the mount at the right margin: "CB-Q Ry. [Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railway] Telegraph Office: Casper - Wyo. 1917." Some overall rubbing and wear, especially to the edges of the mount. The image shows seven office workers (six men and one woman) in business attire posing for the photograph inside their office. Telegraph equipment, desks, typewriters, a radiant heater, and the office's windows letting natural light into the room can be seen. The Casper, WY depot in which this photograph was taken was built in 1916. …

Photograph. Zustand: Very Good. Large format photograph [15.5 cm x 20.5 cm] on a plain black mount [25 cm x 30 cm]. Photographer unknown. Written in pencil on the reverse: "1908 - Rimrock Ranch - Rathdrum, Ida. - 8 mi [miles] from Coeur d'Alene - Mabel J. - Bertha Magnes - Margaret Judd - Edwin Judd - Percy Judd." The Northern Idaho settlement of "Rathdrum" was originally called "Westwood" but had to change its name in the early 1880s due to there already being a town named Westwood in the region. The image shows a ranch with planted crop lines in the foreground. At least six building structures can be seen beyond. Three women and two men (whose names, presumably, are the names written on the rear side of the mount) are posing for the photograph at a middle distance in the fields.…

Photograph. Zustand: Very Good. Large format photograph [16 x 21 cm] on a light brown mount [25 x 30 cm] with embossed and dark brown borders. No backstamp. Mount is creased and bumped in a few places with a small split and a small loss at bottom right. Photograph is only lightly rubbed, but still unfaded and with nice contrasts. Shows several workers on and around the bridge. Written in contemporary pen on the front of the mount, in the margins: "First Bridge across river above Main Dam at Thompson Falls, Montana. July 30, [19]14".…

Photograph. Zustand: Very Good. Large format photograph [18.5 x 24 cm] on a tan mount [25 x 30 cm]. Wiley Bros. backstamp ("Wiley Bros., Photographers, Successors to L. A. Huffman. Miles City, - Montana."). Mount edges are lightly bumped and chipped. Photograph is gently rubbed and lightly faded but still showing good detail and contrast. Shows many workers constructing the bridge, with Northern Pacific Railroad cars visible in the background. Photograph taken from above, looking down. In ink, by hand, on the front of the mount, "Progress showing detail of bench walls of Culvert + detail of brick arch; also general view of Coulee Bridge 148. Yell[owstone] Riv. [?] [River?].".…

Zustand: Good. Large format photograph on a tan mount [8" x 10"] W. T. Booth backstamp. In pencil on the reverse: "Lundy, and roads to May Lundy Mine, 1880's." The photograph is very faded.

Photograph. Zustand: Good. Large format photograph on a tan mount [10" x 8"] W. T. Booth backstamp. The photograph is very faded.

Photograph. Zustand: Very Good. Large format photograph on a gray mount [7" x 10"] "Notice to Tourists" backstamp. A couple of short edge tears in the paper of the mount.

Photograph. Zustand: Good. Large format photograph [9 1/2 inches wide x 7 1/2 inches tall] with a tan border and gray mount [12 1/4 inches wide x 9 7/8 inches tall]. No backstamp. "Residence of F. A. Timby. Salt Lake City, Utah. 2157 Grand Ave" in pen, on front of mount. Corners worn, one with small loss. Moisture staining to several areas of mount. Small stain to surface of image, near the center. Photographer unknown. We have not seen this photograph before. A large format photograph of this historic house located in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah. Frank Arthur Timby (1863-1927) was president of F. A. Timby General Insurance Company. He is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.…

Photograph. 10 1/2 inches x 13 3/4 inches. There is a discreet 5" closed tear to the surface which has been backed with tape (tear barely visible on the recto). A sharp landscape view of Yosemite with Half Dome at distant right. A nice Hillers image. John Hillers (1840-1882) was working as a teamster in Salt Lake City, where he met John Wesley Powell. The following year, in 1871, he was hired by Powell to be a boatman on his second expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. Over time, he replaced Clements Powell (John's cousin) as the assistant to the photographer (first E. O. Beaman then James Fennemore). Hillers was likable, worked hard, and picked up the art of photography quickly. Soon, he was the main photographer on Powell's trips and would go on to work for B.A.E. for years.…

Photograph. 8 x 10" image on a 9 x 10 3/4" mount (bottom trimmed obscuring notation). The view shows the center of downtown and includes Amelia's Palace. Photographer unknown. At one time, Amelia's Palace, also known as the Gardo House, was heralded as one of the finest homes between Chicago and the West Coast. Construction of the home was begun in 1873 by Brigham Young, who recognized a need for a place where he could receive official callers and entertain the dignitaries who traveled great distances to see him.…