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| 1. |  | Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours 1841-1842 Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe. (Title page, vol. 1) ([1841]-1842) [Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe] Title page - Aquatint 27 x 39 cm NYPL - New York Public Library Image id: 1690382 |
| 2. |  | Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours 1841-1842 (publication) Pyramid of Cheops [Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe] Aquatint, based on a Daguerreotype 27 x 39 cm NYPL - New York Public Library Image id: 1690379 Additional Name(s): Lerebours, N.-P. (Noël Paymal), 1807-1873 - Photographer |
| 3. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1848 Izamal, Gigantic Head Book illustration Google Books John L. Stephens Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol.II (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848) |
| 4. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1843 We had with us a Daguerreotype apparatus. The best that could be procured in New-York Book page Google Books Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Volume 1, by John Lloyd Stevens (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1843), p.175. … We had with us a Daguerreotype apparatus, the best that could be procured in New-York, with which, immediately on our arrival at Uxmal, Mr. Catherwood began taking views; but the results were not sufficiently perfect to suit his ideas. At times the projecting cornices and ornaments threw parts of the subject in shade, while others were in broad sunshine; so that, while parts were brought out well, other parts required pencil drawings to supply their defects. They gave a general idea of the character of the buildings, but would not do to put into the hands of the engraver without copying the views on paper, and introducing the defective parts, which would require more labour than that of making at once complete original drawings. He therefore completed everything with his pencil and camera lucida, while Doctor Cabot and myself took up the Daguerreotype; and, in order to ensure the utmost accuracy, the Daguerreotype views were placed with the drawings in the hands of the engravers for their guidance. |
| 5. |  | Richard Beard 1845 Sir John Franklin [British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition 1845-1848] Daguerreotype 6.2 x 7.6 cm Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge Accession no.: N: 589/1 Three-quarter length portrait of Sir John Franklin, seated and holding a telescope. Sir John Franklin, Captain, HMS Erebus - there is a single Daguerreotype at Cambridge with a reversed copy of what appears to be the Cambridge image in the collection at Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock, England. For a detailed discussion on this series of Daguerreotypes: http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/06/lost-daguerreotypes.html http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-on-franklin-expedition.html http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-franklin-expedition-daguerreotype.html |
| 6. |  | Richard Beard 1845 Stephen Stanley [British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition 1845-1848] Daguerreotype 6.2 x 7.6 cm Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge Accession no.: N: 589/10 Three-quarter length portrait of Stephen Stanley, Surgeon, seated. Stephen Samuel Stanley, Surgeon, HMS Erebus - there is a single Daguerreotype at Cambridge with a reversed copy of what appears to be the Cambridge image in the collection at Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock, England. For a detailed discussion on this series of Daguerreotypes: http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/06/lost-daguerreotypes.html http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-on-franklin-expedition.html http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-franklin-expedition-daguerreotype.html |
| 7. |  | Richard Beard 1851, 13 September Portraits of Captain Sir John Franklin, and his Crew Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter |
| 8. |  | Richard Beard 1851, 13 September Captain Sir John Franklin, K.H.C. Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter |
| 9. |  | Richard Beard 1851, 13 September S. Stanley (Surgeon) Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter |
| 10. |  | Richard Beard 1851, 18 October English Exploring Expedition to the Arctic Seas, Portraits of Sir John Franklin and Officers of the English Exploring Expedition Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Volume 1, Number 25, Boston, Saturday, October 18, 1851. |
| 11. |  | Richard Beard 1851, 18 October Captain Sir John Franklin, K.H.C. [English Exploring Expedition to the Arctic Seas, Portraits of Sir John Franklin and Officers of the English Exploring Expedition] Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Volume 1, Number 25, Boston, Saturday, October 18, 1851. |
| 12. |  | Richard Beard 1851, 18 October S. Stanley (Surgeon) [English Exploring Expedition to the Arctic Seas, Portraits of Sir John Franklin and Officers of the English Exploring Expedition] Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Volume 1, Number 25, Boston, Saturday, October 18, 1851. |
| 13. |  | 1875, 30 October Photographing the Wall of Ice in Peel Sound, 72 Deg. 30 min. N. Lat. Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter Illustrated London News, 30 October, 1875. Illustration from the 1875 Pandora expedition led by Allen Young which was the last expedition dispatched by Lady Franklin. It was forced to abandon the expedition due to heavy ice in June 1875. |
| 14. |  | Mathew B. Brady 1855, 15 December The Arctic Explorers. Drawn by Wallen. From an Ambrotype by Brady. Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, No. 1, Vol. 1, New York, Saturday, Dec. 15, 1855 |
| 15. |  | Mathew B. Brady 1855, 15 December The Arctic Explorers. Drawn by Wallen. From an Ambrotype by Brady. Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, No. 1, Vol. 1, New York, Saturday, Dec. 15, 1855 |
| 16. |  | Solomon Nunes Carvalho 1850 (ca) [Solomon Nunes Carvalho, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, seated with arm resting on table with tablecloth] Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division DAG no. 1235, LC-USZ62-112299 DLC (b&w film copy neg. post-1992) Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 190, 303. |
| 17. |  | Solomon Nunes Carvalho 1859 Title page for "Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; with Col. Fremont's Last Expedition across the Rocky Mountains", by S.N. Carvalho (New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859). Title page Google Books Full title: S.N. Carvalho "Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; with Col. Fremont's Last Expedition across the Rocky Mountains: Including Three Months' Residence in Utah and a Perilous Trip across the Great American Desert to the Pacific" (New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859). |
| 18. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1856 The explorations of Fremont Book page Google Books C.W. Dana The Garden of the World, or, The Great West: its History, its Wealth, its Natural Advantages, and its Future. Also, comprising A Complete Guide to Emigrants with a Full Description of the Different Routes Westward. By an Old Settler (Boston: Wentworth and Company, 1856), p.384. In this description of the country I have relied chiefly on Fremont, whose exploration, directed by no authority, connected with no company, swayed by no interest, wholly guided by himself, and solely directed to the public good, would be entitled to credit upon his own report, unsupported by subsidiary evidence; but he has not left the credit of his report to his word alone. He has done besides what no other explorer had done ; he has made the country report itself. Besides determining elevations barometrically, and fixing positions astronomically, and measuring objects with a practised eye; besides all that, he has applied the daguerreotype art to the face of the wild domain, and made it speak for itself. Three hundred of these views illustrate the path of his exploration, and compel every object to stand forth and show itself as it is, or was mountain, gap, plain, rock, forest, grass, snow, (where there is any,) and naked ground where there is not; all exhibit themselves as they are; for Daguerre has no power to conceal what is visible, or to exhibit what is unseen. If the "wart" is there, he needs no admonition to show it, and could not suppress it. He uses no pencil to substitute fiction for fact, or fancy for memory. He is a machine that works to a pattern, and that pattern the object before him; and in this way has Fremont reproduced the country from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and made it become the reflex of its own features, and the exhibiter of its own face, present and viewable to every beholder; and that nothing may be wanting to complete the information on a subject of such magnitude, he has now gone back to give the finishing look at the west end of the line, which 30,000 miles of wilderness explorations in the last twelve years (all at his own solicitation, and the last half at his own cost) authorize him to believe is the true and good route for the road which is to unite the Atlantic and the Pacific, and to give a new channel to the commerce of Asia. [The same paragraph is included in John C. Van Tramp Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures: or, Life in the West. To Which will be added a View of the States and Territorial Regions of our Western Empire (Columbus, O.: Gilmore & Segner, 1866), p.308.] |
| 19. |  | Edward Augustus Inglefield 1854 Captain Parker [Inglefield Expedition] Glass plate negative 16.2 x 21.2 cm National Maritime Museum Repro ID: G04258 ® National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London The National Maritime Museum provides the context for this photograph: When Captain Inglefield set sail for the Arctic in summer 1854, The Times reported that he took with him 'a most complete series of the articles used by photographists for depicting nature as seen in the Polar regions'. Inglefield had seen the new technique of wet glass-plate photography at the 1851 Great Exhibition and Archer's Manual of the Collodion Photographic Process, published in 1852, explained what to do. The Admiralty sent Inglefield to Lancaster Sound in the Canadian Arctic. He was to make contact with the naval squadron searching for traces of Sir John Franklin, whose voyage to find the North-West Passage had set out nine years earlier. On the way north, British exploring ships always called at the ports of west Greenland for supplies and final preparations. They often took Inuit on board as interpreters and bought sledge dogs. Greenland was a Danish colony but the population was almost entirely Inuit. Small towns had by then grown up along the coast where the Danish officials and missionaries lived. In winter they were totally isolated but the summer months were enlivened by visits of naval ships, trading vessels and whalers. These photographs convey, with astonishing clarity, the personalities of a diverse mixture of people caught on camera more than 150 years ago. |
| 20. |  | Smith 1855 Araucanian Chief Book plate, based on a Daguerreotype Google Books Lieut. J.M. Gilliss The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, During the Years 1849-'50-'51-'52 (Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1855), Volume I - Chile, inserted after p.68. "A cacique who came to Santiago during our residence being thought, by those who had had opportunities to judge, a fair type of the race, a daguerreotype was taken of him by Mr. Smith, and the portrait opposite is copied from it." (p.68) |
| 21. |  | Eliphalet Brown 1856 Title page for "Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan; Performed in the Years 1802, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, U. S. Navy" (New York : D. Appleton & Co.,1856) Title page Google Books |
| 22. |  | Eliphalet Brown 1856 Japanese Women Book illustration Google Books Illustration in "Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan; Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, U. S. Navy" (New York : D. Appleton & Co.,1856). A number of the plates in this volume were based on Daguerreotypes, now lost, by Eliphalet Brown but I'm not sure which ones those were. (Alan Griffiths, March 2010) |
| 23. |  | Eliphalet Brown 1859 Messrs. Brown and Draper, the artists, went ashore… Book page Google Books Bayard Taylor A Visit to India, China and Japan in the year 1853 (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1859), p.450. During our first visit, the Commodore applied to the authorities to lease him a house on shore for a short time, that the daguerreotype and telegraphic apparatus might be put up and tested. They designated the little temple near the village of Tumai, two miles north of Napa, which had been given to Capts. Maxwell and Hall, as a hospital for their seamen. There is a correct sketch of it in Hall's work. Messrs. Brown and Draper, the artists, went ashore with their assistants, and remained there three weeks. They were daily visited by numbers of the better class of natives, who watched their operations with the greatest curiosity. They at once comprehended, the properties of the daguerreotype, and willingly sat for their portraits. They understood the necessity of remaining perfectly quiet, and were as rigid as statues, not venturing to move an eyelid. When the impression was good, nothing could exceed their wonder and delight. The excessive moisture in the air of Loo-Choo, and the absence of any fitting location for the instruments, operated unfavorably upon the plates, and not more than twenty good pictures were procured. These, however, are of much value, as giving perfect representations of the features and costumes of the Loo-Chooins. The telegraphic apparatus worked admirably, and though we natives could only partially comprehend its character, they regarded it with a kind of superstitious awe. |
| 24. |  | Sarony 1850s (ca) Bayard Taylor Carte de visite Private collection Manuscript "Bayard Taylor" at bottom but probably not Taylor's signature. The signature is definitely in ink, not printed on the card. Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was a noted travel writer. He accompanied the Perry Expedition to Japan from May-September of 1853. This image appears to have been taken a few years after he returned from the Expedition. Front reads "Sarony - 680 Broadway" (New York City). |
| 25. |  | Charles Piazzi Smyth 1858 Stereoscopically illustrated book. Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment, by C. Piazzi Smyth. Published by Lowell Reeve in 1858. The hard bound book has over 450 pages and is illustrated with 20 real photographic stereo views. Book cover Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#17 / 282) A very important book, since it was the first commercially produced to be illustrated with stereo photographs. |
| 26. |  | Charles Piazzi Smyth 1858 Illustration from Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment, by C. Piazzi Smyth. Stereo Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#17 / 282) A very important book, since it was the first commercially produced to be illustrated with stereo photographs. |
| 27. |  | Humphrey Lloyd Hime 1858 Members of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition, Encampment on the Red River [Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition] Print, type uncertain Library and Archives Canada Ref. No: e000009486 |
| 28. |  | Humphrey Lloyd Hime 1858 The prairie, on the banks of Red River, looking south [Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition] Print, type uncertain Library and Archives Canada Ref. No: C-018694 |
| 29. |  | Humphrey Lloyd Hime 1860 The prairie looking west [Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition] Chromoxylograph Library and Archives Canada Ref. No: e000009450 A chromoxylograph (a colour wood engraving, "chromo" meaning colour and "xylo" indicating wood) that was produced from a Hime photograph having the same title. Henry Youle Hind Narrative of The Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860) Two volumes. Illustration printed Spottiswoode and Company. |
| 30. |  | Bruno L. Hamel 1859 An Album of Photographic Views, Taken during the Government Scientific Exploring Expedition Title page 29.5 x24 x 2. 5 cm Auckland War Memorial Museum Album 80 Full title: An Album of Photographic Views, Taken during the Government Scientific Exploring Expedition conducted by Dr. Ferdinand Hochstetter, Geologist, of the Imperial Austrian Expedition, of the Province of Auckland, by Bruno L. Hamel, photographic artist, Auckland, New Zealand. 1859. The album contains the following albumen prints: 1. Dr Ferdinand Hochstetter 2. Auckland [foreshore 1859] 3. Auckland [from Fort Britomart 1859] 4. Government House, Auckland 5a.Drury Hotel 5b.Waikato River, Rangariri 6. Rangariri [with raupo hut] 7a. Raupo Huts [with figures] 7b. Maori School, Taupiri [with children] 8. Reception of the Exploring Party [Europeans being hosted by Maori] 9. Mission Station, Otawhao [with groups of children] 10a. Takatahi Kawhia [includes homestead] 10b. Limestone Rocks, Kawhia 11. Limestone Rocks, Kawhia 12a. Tarawera 12b. Wairoa Settlement, Tarawera 13. Mission Station, Tarawera [Reverend S.M Spencer] 14. Maori School, Tarawera [children with their books] 15. Te Tarata, Rotomahana [white terrace] 16. Te Tarata [white terrace] 17. Te Tarata [white terrace] 18. Rotomahana 19. Otukupuarangi [pink terrace with raupo huts] 20. Waikiti, Whakarewarewa 21. Mutumutu Solfatara, Whakarewarewa 22. Ohinemutu [Maori settlement] 23. Papapatangi, Waiho Plains 24. Forest Scenery 25. Maori Monument at Rotorua [dressed] 26. View at Rotomahana 27. View at Rotomahana 28. Mission Station at Taupiri |
| 31. |  | Bruno L. Hamel 1859 Dr. Ferdinand Hochstetter [An Album of Photographic Views, Taken during the Government Scientific Exploring Expedition] Albumen print 14.4 x 18 cm Auckland War Memorial Museum Album 80 Included in: An Album of Photographic Views, Taken during the Government Scientific Exploring Expedition conducted by Dr. Ferdinand Hochstetter, Geologist, of the Imperial Austrian Expedition, of the Province of Auckland, by Bruno L. Hamel, photographic artist, Auckland, New Zealand. 1859. |
| 32. |  | Bruno L. Hamel 1859 Limestone Rocks: Rakau Nui, Kawhia [An Album of Photographic Views, Taken during the Government Scientific Exploring Expedition] Albumen print 21 x 15.5 cm Auckland War Memorial Museum Album 80 Included in: An Album of Photographic Views, Taken during the Government Scientific Exploring Expedition conducted by Dr. Ferdinand Hochstetter, Geologist, of the Imperial Austrian Expedition, of the Province of Auckland, by Bruno L. Hamel, photographic artist, Auckland, New Zealand. 1859. |
| 33. |  | Bruno L. Hamel 1859 Maori Monument at Rotorua [An Album of Photographic Views, Taken during the Government Scientific Exploring Expedition] Albumen print 11.1 x 14 8 cm Auckland War Memorial Museum Album 80 Included in: An Album of Photographic Views, Taken during the Government Scientific Exploring Expedition conducted by Dr. Ferdinand Hochstetter, Geologist, of the Imperial Austrian Expedition, of the Province of Auckland, by Bruno L. Hamel, photographic artist, Auckland, New Zealand. 1859. |
| 34. |  | George Skene Keith 1859 Roman Temple at Gerasa Engraving, from a Daguerreotype Google Books Alexander Keith Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion derived from the Literal Fulfilment of Prophecy, Thirty-seventh edition (London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1859) between p.130-131. The ancient city of Gerasa is the modern city of Jerash in the north of Jordan. |
| 35. |  | Désiré Charnay 1863 Title page for Désiré Charnay "Cités et ruines Américaines: Mitla, Palenqué, Izamal, Chichen-Itza, Uxmal" (Paris: Gide, Editeur, A. Morel et Cie., 1863) [Cités et Ruines Americaines] Title page Google Books For a more recent work that places the research of Désiré Charnay in context see R. Tripp Evans Romancing the Maya: Mexican antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820-1915 (University of Texas Press, 2004). |
| 36. |  | Désiré Charnay 1860 The Great Palace at Mitla, interior of the Court Albumen print British Library |
| 37. |  | Adolphe Braun 1869 Groupe de voyageurs européens visitant les monuments égyptiens au moment de l'inauguration du canal de Suez Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie |
| 38. |  | Carleton E. Watkins 1861-1865 (taken) 1885 (print) The Three Brothers, 3,818 feet, reflected, Yosemite, California. Albumen print, mammoth plate 16 x 20 in (41 x 52 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction Oct 21, 2008, Lot 18) On the original mount, with Isiah Taber's credit, the title, and inventory number, "476," in the negative |
| 39. |  | John Thomson 1866 The Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom Albumen print British Library |
| 40. |  | John Thomson 1867 1148, One of the Towers of the Temple at Ongcor Thom. From a photograph by Mr. J. Thomson Book illustration, woodcut Google Books James Furgusson A History of Architecture in all Countries, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, in three volumes (London: John Murray, 1867), Vol.II, Bk.VI, Ch.II, p.727. The same illustration is shown in John Thomson The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China; or Ten Years' Travels, Adventures and Residence Abroad (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875), p.151 and here it is entitled "Sculptured tower in Nakhon Thom, The ancient capital of Cambodia.". See also p.140 which concerns Thompson supplying photographs to Prof. Ferguson. |
| 41. |  | Timothy H. O'Sullivan 1867 Timothy O'Sullivan's ambulance wagon and portable darkroom used during the King Survey rolls across the sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev. National Archives and Records Administration 77-KS-346O |
| 42. |  | Timothy H. O'Sullivan 1869, June Shifting Sand-Mounds Magazine illustration Google Books Published in "Photographs from the High Rockies" in "Harper's New Monthly Magazine", No. CCXXXII, September, 1869, Vol. XXXIX, p.474 |
| 43. |  | Captain Charles Wilson 1863 Title page for "Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem" by Captain Charles Wilson R.E. Title page Source requested Corporal H. Phillips R.E. took the photographs during the survey of Palestine. First hand account is in: "The Survey of Palestine" by Lieutenant S. Anderson, R.E. p.438-471, in "The Recovery of Jerusalem" by Capt. Wilson, R.E. Capt. Warren, R.E. &c. (London: Richard Bentley, 1871) The Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem having been successfully accomplished by Captain Wilson, R.E., and a party of the Royal Engineers in the season of 1864-65, the Palestine Exploration Fund determined upon sending out an expedition to make such a general survey of the country as would enable the Society to fix on particular spots for further investigation. Captain Wilson was appointed to take charge of the party, and he was accompanied by myself and a photographer, Corporal Phillips, of the Royal Engineers. The party left England on the 8th of November, 1865, and arrived at Beyrout on the 22nd of the same month; there, with the assistance of Mr. Eldridge, the Consul-Greneral, the requisite number of muleteers and mules were engaged, as well as a dragoman or interpreter, who provided tents and complete camp equipment. |
| 44. |  | H. Phillips 1873, October Palestine Exploration Fund Photographs Book advert Google Books Advert was published in List of Books Published by Edward Stanford - October, 1873, p.18. PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND PHOTOGRAPHS. PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS of PALESTINE, taken expressly for the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1865, 1866, 1867. By Sergeant H. Phillips, R.E, under the orders of Captain Wilson, B.E, and Lieutenant Warren, R.E. This beautiful series of Original Photographs now comprises 356 most interesting Views of the Cities, Villages, Temples, Synagogues, Churches, Ruins, Tombs, Seas, Lakes, Priests, Pilgrims, Inhabitants, &c, of the Holy Land and Jerusalem. Any Photograph may be had separately. Mounted on a white board, size 13 inches by 11, price 1s. 6d. each; or, a Selection" of 14 Photographs, in cloth portfolio, lettered, 21s. A List of the Views gratis on application, or per post for penny stamp. Descriptive Catalogue, 6d. |
| 45. |  | James McDonald 1869 Members of the Sinai Survey [The Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, 1869] Albumen print 16.8 x 21 cm Dominic Winter Book Auctions Printed Books & Maps, Vintage Photography (17 June 2009, Lot: 110) Seven men seated in front of a tent, original mount with printed details and key to members' names. |
| 46. |  | James McDonald 1868 (ca) Non-commissioned officers of the royal engineers on the Sinai survey Albumen print 17 x 22 cm (6.5 x 8.5 ins) Roland Belgrave Vintage Photography Printed title and index of named sitters. |
| 47. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1863, 25 October (probably) Admiral and officers of the Russian fleet. Point View. Niagara Falls Stereoview, detail Private collection of Richard O. Titus During the American Civil War the Russian Government sent two naval squadrons to the US to demonstrate support for the Northern course. This expedition was also a strategic move to put pressure on England and France to be careful in their assistance to the South. |
| 48. |  | Timothy H. O'Sullivan 1868 A member of Clarence King's Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel is surveying from a rock. Shoshone Canyon and Falls, Idaho Terr., in background. National Archives and Records Administration 77-KS-4412 |
| 49. |  | Timothy H. O'Sullivan 1867 Cottonwood Canyon [King Survey] Albumen print, on King Survey mount h: 10.6 x w: 7.8 in / h: 26.9 x w: 19.8 cm Etherton Gallery |
| 50. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1870-1880 Book spines from Clarence King "Report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel made by order of the Secretary of War" (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1870-1880) Book spines Donald A. Heald - Rare Books, Prints & Maps Courtesy of Donald A. Heald, #19012 [KING, Clarence (1842-1901), and others] Report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel made by order of the Secretary of War [Text:] Washington: Government Printing Office: [Atlas:] New York: Julius Bien, [Text:]1878-1877-1870-1877-1871-1876-1880, [atlas: no date, but 1870]. 8 volumes only (text: 7 volumes, quarto [11 7/16 x 9 inches]; atlas: 1 volume only [of 2], oblong folio [19 1/4 x 25 1/8 inches]). Text: numerous maps, plates, and illustrations throughout, some coloured, some folding or double-page. Atlas: lithographed throughout, title, 1 uncoloured map, 3 chromolithographic geological maps, 10 lithographic sectional maps showing mining operations, with hand-colouring and colour-printing (2 double-page). Text: uniform original blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, small tears or scuffing to joints and extremities, atlas: original blue half morocco, titled in gilt on upper cover. With over 4000 pages of text and hundreds of plates, maps and illustrations, this was a landmark publication in American science and in knowledge of the American West. "As a great and epic feat of exploration and adventure, the King Survey surpassed everything else that had been done in the latter-day West…but the most important result of his adventures was the monographs produced with incredible diligence and insight by King and his staff" - Goetzmann. An almost complete set of the final reports of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, better known after its field director, Clarence King, as the King Survey. The reports appeared in seven volumes over a ten-year period, reporting on field work in the American West between 1868 and 1878. This set is lacking only the large separately issued atlas of ten double-sheet geological and topographical maps. It does include the other atlas, Atlas accompanying volume III on Mining Industry (New York: Julius Bien, [no date]), which includes a series of fascinating large scale cross-sectional maps showing mines workings in the area. The King Survey, with those of Hayden, Wheeler, and Powell, was one of the great scientific reconnaisances of the American West made in the fifteen years after the Civil War. King himself, called "the best and brightest man of his generation" by his friend, Henry Adams, was a dynamic leader and a brilliant organizer of field research. His survey, stretching from northern California across Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Kansas, provided a physical cross-section of the vast West, already subdued in a military sense, but only beginning to be understood from a scientific perspective. King was accompanied by an expert crew of scientists, as well as the photographer, Timothy O'Sullivan, whose work provides the basis for the lavish illustrations in King's own Systematic Geology…, the first volume in the set. Other volumes, also extensively illustrated, cover descriptive geology, the mining industry, paleontology, botany, petrography, and O.C. Marsh's pioneering work on dinosaurs, Odontornithes. Schmeckebier Publications…of the surveys pp.38-40; Goetzmann Exploration and Empire pp.438-66; Reese, Stamped with a National Character 76. |
| 51. |  | Alexander Gardner 1867 (ca, taken) 1869 (ca, print) Engineer camp at the Zuni Pass, in the Sierra Madre, N.M., 975 miles west of Missouri River. [Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad: route of the 35th parallel, pl.77] Albumen print 15 x 20.3 cm Boston Public Library, Print Department File name: 10_08_000077 Notes: On March 9, 1869 a joint resolution of Congress authorized the changing of the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division's name to the Kansas Pacific Railway Company.; Although all of the photographs published in Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad (Route of the 35th Parallel) are attributed to Gardner, some of the images may have been taken by one of the other photographers Gardner supervised on the expedition. "As official photographer for the expedition, Gardner was allowed to published all the expedition photographs under his name. In 1867 he stated in a deposition that although a photograph was identified on the mount as a 'Photograph by A. Gardner,' it simply meant that it was printed or copied in his gallery; he was not necessarily the photographer. The other photographers on the expedition were Dr. William A. Bell, William R. Pywell, and Gardner's son, Lawrence, who apprenticed on the expedition." [Katz, D. Mark (1991). Witness to an era: the life and photographs of Alexander Gardner: the Civil War, Lincoln, and the West. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill. Page 220]; Images most likely published in 1869. "Along with images made by photographers under his [Alexander Gardner's] supervision, his photographs were published in an album titled Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railyway (Route of the 35th Parallel), offered for sale on April, 1869." [Marien, Mary Warner (2006). Photography: a cultural history. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd. Page 132] |
| 52. |  | Alexander Gardner 1867-1868 (ca, taken) 1869 (ca, print) Camp of surverying party at Russel's Tank, Arizona, on eastern slope of Laja Range, 1,271 miles from Missouri River. [Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad: route of the 35th parallel, pl.80] Albumen print 15 x 20.2 cm Boston Public Library, Print Department File name: 10_08_000088 Notes: On March 9, 1869 a joint resolution of Congress authorized the changing of the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division's name to the Kansas Pacific Railway Company.; Although all of the photographs published in Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad (Route of the 35th Parallel) are attributed to Gardner, some of the images may have been taken by one of the other photographers Gardner supervised on the expedition. "As official photographer for the expedition, Gardner was allowed to published all the expedition photographs under his name. In 1867 he stated in a deposition that although a photograph was identified on the mount as a 'Photograph by A. Gardner,' it simply meant that it was printed or copied in his gallery; he was not necessarily the photographer. The other photographers on the expedition were Dr. William A. Bell, William R. Pywell, and Gardner's son, Lawrence, who apprenticed on the expedition." [Katz, D. Mark (1991). Witness to an era: the life and photographs of Alexander Gardner: the Civil War, Lincoln, and the West. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill. Page 220]; Images most likely published in 1869. "Along with images made by photographers under his [Alexander Gardner's] supervision, his photographs were published in an album titled Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railyway (Route of the 35th Parallel), offered for sale on April, 1869." [Marien, Mary Warner (2006). Photography: a cultural history. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd. Page 132] |
| 53. |  | Alexander Gardner 1867-1868 (ca, taken) 1869 (ca, print) Surveying Party at Agua Frio, in Sierra Madre, New Mexico, (The Water Shed of the Continent,) 970 miles west of Missouri River. [Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad: route of the 35th parallel, pl.75] Albumen print 14.9 x 20.4 cm Boston Public Library, Print Department File name: 10_08_000075 Notes: On March 9, 1869 a joint resolution of Congress authorized the changing of the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division's name to the Kansas Pacific Railway Company.; Although all of the photographs published in Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad (Route of the 35th Parallel) are attributed to Gardner, some of the images may have been taken by one of the other photographers Gardner supervised on the expedition. "As official photographer for the expedition, Gardner was allowed to published all the expedition photographs under his name. In 1867 he stated in a deposition that although a photograph was identified on the mount as a 'Photograph by A. Gardner,' it simply meant that it was printed or copied in his gallery; he was not necessarily the photographer. The other photographers on the expedition were Dr. William A. Bell, William R. Pywell, and Gardner's son, Lawrence, who apprenticed on the expedition." [Katz, D. Mark (1991). Witness to an era: the life and photographs of Alexander Gardner: the Civil War, Lincoln, and the West. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill. Page 220]; Images most likely published in 1869. "Along with images made by photographers under his [Alexander Gardner's] supervision, his photographs were published in an album titled Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railyway (Route of the 35th Parallel), offered for sale on April, 1869." [Marien, Mary Warner (2006). Photography: a cultural history. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd. Page 132] |
| 54. |  | Dunmore & Critcherson 1869 Hunting by Steam in Melville Bay Albumen print 27.7 x 38.8 cm (10 7/8 x 15 1/4 in) American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution Gift of Charles Isaacs |
| 55. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1873 Regulations for the Royal Engineer Department (War Office, December 4th, 1873) Title page Google Books Section XIII - Plans, Instruments, Photography, &c. IV. Photography 855. Photographic apparatus and men for working it, are allowed at particular stations : (a.) To provide the means for taking representations of objects of special interest, but chiefly those of a professional character. (b.) To take photographs to accompany the Quarterly Progress Reports for the purpose of illustrating the progress made on any large works, (c.) To take photographs to assist in explaining Record and other plans, and in some cases as substitutes for elevations. 856. At Stations where photographic apparatus and Sappers or Photographic non-commissioned officers of Engineers for working it are allowed, the Commanding Royal Engineer will be guided by the following relating to. Instructions: (a.) The photographers will be considered as available for every service of the corps, and will only be engaged in photographing when the Commanding Royal Engineer may consider the object worthy of it, or for the necessary practice for maintaining and improving the individuals in the art. Where photographers prove themselves incompetent without probability of improvement they will cease to be employed in that capacity. (b.) The Commanding Royal Engineer will use his discretion in causing additional men, who may be apt, to receive more or less instruction, provided he has funds at his disposal, on the item for photography; but under no circumstances, unless specially authorised, will their pay, whilst so employed, be charged to any other item than that provided in the estimate for photography. (c.) The daily employment of the photographers will be recorded in a book, kept for the purpose at the station; it will give details of the materials used, of the men employed, and the particular nature of the work performed. (d.) A Quarterly Report will be forwarded to the Inspector General of Fortifications, specifying particulars of the work done, of the number of men employed, and the consumption of material, &c. (e.) The plates of subjects of particular interest will be preserved; the negatives of objects of minor importance may be obliterated after the requisite number of impressions shall have been struck off. A register will be kept of all photographs taken. (f.) When photographs are of such a nature that it is desirable for a considerable time to preserve them, they will be printed by the carbon or some other permanent process. It may be necessary to send the negatives to England for this purpose. (g.) Three copies of all subjects of any general interest will be sent to the Inspector General of Fortifications. Photographs will be packed flat when transmitted. (h.) Every copy will have written on it the subject, locality, date, name of the photographer, where the plates, if preserved, are deposited, and when necessary will be accompanied by a plan showing the point of view, and the angle included. (i.) The whole apparatus will be placed under the responsible charge of some non-commissioned officer or trustworthy man, and the materials will be duly guarded from misappropriation or waste. 857. Copies of photographs of fortifications will not be sold, but copies of photographs of buildings or of views of general interest may be sold to any member of a garrison wishing to purchase them, at such prices as will cover the cost of production, and will not interfere unduly with the interests of private establishments. 858. The amount realized by the sale will be handed over quarterly to the Local Controller whose receipt will be taken; and a statement of the amount will be included in the quarterly report of photography. |
| 56. |  | William Henry Jackson 1872 [Members of the survey party in camp] Albumen print 17.1 x 22.3 cm George Eastman Museum © 2004 George Eastman House |
| 57. |  | William Henry Jackson 1871 Hayden Expedition, Yellowstone National Park Painting Creative Commons - Wikipedia US National Park Service |
| 58. |  | William Henry Jackson 1874 Title page for "Descriptive Catalogue of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of The Territories for The Years 1869 to 1873, inclusive" by W.H. Jackson (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874) Title page Google Books Preface It has been customary, heretofore, merely to catalogue the results of each season's operations in a few pamphlet pages of numbers and titles only, but the increasing interest in, and demand for the more striking views, calls for a complete descriptive account of the collection, and I have endeavored, in the following pages, to supply as much information as the somewhat limited space allows. The descriptions are mainly compiled from the reports for the corresponding years. The collection, thus far, numbers upward of thirteen hundred landscape negatives, the greater portion of them of subjects that had never been taken, and probably will not be for many years to come, or until the country has advanced into civilization. By no other means could the characteristics and wonderful peculiarities of the hitherto almost unknown western half of our continent be brought so vividly to the attention of the world. That they are appreciated, the demand for them, from all quarters of the globe, amply testifies. It is not to be expected that they- should possess uniform excellence as the conditions under which they were made were as variable as the winds, and the difficulties encountered and surmounted in obtaining many of the most valuable views, are almost incredible. As a whole, however, their excellence is quite marked, and is a trinmph over difficulties. The Indian catalogue includes a list of over one thousand subjects and sixty-six tribes, representing nearly every portion of the western Territories, and their value to the ethnography of the aborigines will soon be very great. They are mostly studies of their habits and costumes, taken in their own villages and among their own mountains, showing their every-day life. They are fast passing away or conforming to the habits of civilization, and there will be no more faithful record of the past than these photographs. To their future historian they will prove invaluable. The subjects made under the direction of this survey formed the nucleus, to which has been added nearly one thousand negatives through the munificent liberality of Wm. Blackmore, esq., a wealthy English gentleman, deeply interested in ethnography. The addition is especially valuable as it embraces many other collections, dating back twenty years. Especial attention is being paid to the subject each season, and additions made to the collections upon every opportunity. |
| 59. |  | Timothy H. O'Sullivan 1871-1874 (survey) Back of stereocard [Wheeler Survey, Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian] Stereocard Etherton Gallery |
| 60. |  | Timothy H. O'Sullivan 1871-1874 (survey), , 13 September (taken) The start from Camp Mojave, Arizona, September 13, 1871. [Wheeler Survey, Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian] Stereocard, detail Etherton Gallery 1. The start from Camp Mojave, Arizona, September 13, 1871. Boat expedition under Lieutenant Wheeler, the first and only one to ascend the Colorado through the Grand Ca±on to mouth of Diamond Creek. Distance traveled, 260 miles in 31 days, the boats often having to be portaged around rapids and drawn over rocks. |
| 61. |  | Timothy H. O'Sullivan 1871-1874 (survey), 1872 (expedition) 10. the mouth of Kanab Creek. [Wheeler Survey, Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian] Stereocard, detail Etherton Gallery |
| 62. |  | George White / Thomas Mitchell 1875, 9 or 12 August Fast to the floe under Cape Prescott, Franklin Pierce Bay [The British Arctic Expedition, 1875-76] Photographic print 33 x 39 x 13 cm National Maritime Museum Repro ID: B3669-B ® National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London The National Maritime Museum provides the context for this photograph: 'Discovery' (left) and 'Alert' (right) secured to the ice below Cape Prescott. This gave the crews of the two ships time to explore and exercise the dogs with the sledges. The dogs were described as being fast, and some had found a way of getting out of their harnesses. One activity recorded by Lt. Parr was 'a football match between the two ships, in which the Discovery's [team] went very much to leeward, but as the blue jacket [sailors] have not the slightest idea of the rules it becomes rather a nondescript game'. |
| 63. |  | Thomas Mitchell 1875 25 January At Cape York - Group of Arctic Highlanders and Seamen of the Expedition [The British Arctic Expedition, 1875-76] Photographic print 33 x 39.2 x 13 cm National Maritime Museum Repro ID: B3669-A ® National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London The National Maritime Museum provides the context for this photograph: This photograph was taken in front of the bows of Discovery on 25 July 1875. Note the sailor's hand holding the child's head still. Here the natives of Cape York communicated with Captain Stephenson through the interpreter Christien Petersen, and Hans. In his diary Lt. Parr described the clothes worn by the native women as consisting 'of sealskin jumper, trousers & long coloured boots [which] were embroidered with different colours… the boots being almost as long as our fishermen's and none of their garments overlap each other so that if it is blowing they must find it rather chilly'. |
| 64. |  | Thomas Mitchell 1875, 20 July Hans Hendrik 'the Esquimaux' with his daughter/wife[?] and son on the upper deck of 'Discovery' [The British Arctic Expedition, 1875-76] Photographic print 33 x 39.2 x 13 cm National Maritime Museum Repro ID: P39584 ® National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London The National Maritime Museum provides the context for this photograph: Hans was employed on the expedition as one of the native dog-drivers on board Discovery. The Alert and Discovery spent three days at Proven, Greenland, between 19 and 21 July 1875 in order to collect the dog-drivers. The official report stated that 'All speak in the highest terms of Hans, the Esquimaux, who was untiring in his exertions with the dog-sledge, and in procuring game'. Indeed, he played an important role in helping to contain the outbreak of scurvy. |
| 65. |  | George White 1875, 10 August Starboard bow view of 'Alert' (1856), with Berrie, Ice Quartermaster, standing in the foreground behind a walrus which he killed. Photographic print 33 x 39.2 x 13 cm National Maritime Museum Repro ID: P39585 ® National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London The National Maritime Museum provides the context for this photograph: On 10 August 1875, Parr wrote: 'In the afternoon, one of our whaleboats went away to see if they could pick up a walrus & in an hour or so afterwards they were seen coming back again with something in tow… It turned out to be a walrus and a fine one too…, the length being 12ft 5in, girth 11ft 6in. It was at once proposed to photograph him, so the camera was prepared and he was taken lying on the floe near the bows of the ship with Berry [Ice Quartermaster, Alert] the harpooner that stuck him, the negative turned out rather well'. |
| 66. |  | William de Wiveleslie Abney 1876 The Recent Transit of Venus: Appendix I Magazine page Google Books From "Paper IX. The Recent Transit of Venus" by Captain Abney, R.E. p.73 in "Papers on Subjects connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers", New Series XXIII, 1876 |
| 67. |  | G.E. Dobson 1872, 4 May Maia Biala, the chief of Rutland Island and his wife [Andaman Islanders] Photographic print Private collection of Jan Weijers (Servatius) This plate was published in G.E. Dobson "On the Andamans and Andamanese" in "The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain", Volume IV, 1875, Plate xxxi A further copy of this plate is in the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, PRM. B30. Misc.Ic; RAI . [Thanks to Jan Weijers for providing this additional information, pers. comm. 21 Sept 2010.] |
| 68. |  | G.E. Dobson 1872, 4 May (taken) 1875 (published) Maia Biala, the chief of Rutland Island and his wife [Andaman Islanders] Magazine illustration Google Books G.E. Dobson "On the Andamans and Andamanese" in "The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain", Volume IV, 1875, Plate xxxi Note that the genitalia of Maia Biala have been scratched out in this version. In the versions at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, PRM. B30. Misc.Ic; RAI 5758 and in the private collection collection of Jan Weijers the genitalia are shown. [Thanks to Jan Weijers for providing this additional information, pers. comm. 21 Sept 2010.] |
| 69. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1871, October The Corean Expedition Magazine page Google Books The Photographer's Friend (Baltimore), vol. 1, no. 4, October, 1871, p. 163. The Corean Expedition. The Navy Department at Washington have received from Admiral Rogers, with his official dispatches concerning the Fleet's operations, a very large Album, containing about fifty Photographs, illustrations of Corean Scenery and people, including the first fort captured on the 10th of June; interior view of the second fort captured; a Corean camp; a Corean magazine; United States vessels of war conveying the army on their advance upon the Corean forts; a view at the seashore, showing the line of march followed by United States troops; interior view of a fort, showing the dead and mangled bodies of Coreans killed by shells from the United States fleet; exterior of the same, showing a number of dead Coreans; interior of the Corean commander-in-chiefs headquarters, showing a number of slain and mangled Corean men and women, and similar scenes.* In fact all scientific expeditions are now accompanied by a photographer, which shows the Art begins to be appreciated by the appreciative. * Nearly all of the above, through the enterprise of Frank Leslie, have been reproduced, since the above was In type, in his excellent illustrated paper, |
| 70. |  | B.F. Baltzly 1871, 14 October [Geological Survey party in camp at Canoe River, October 14. Alfred Selwyn at centre with John Hammond (left centre) and Benjamin Baltzly (right centre)] [Geological Survey of Canada expedition of British Columbia, led by Alfred R. C. Selwyn] Albumen print 17.5 x 23.5 cm (image) 36 x 49.5 cm (mount) Toronto Reference Library Special Collections, Canadian Historical Picture Collection, Identifier: 928-2-31 Photograph taken during Geological Survey of Canada expedition of British Columbia, led by Alfred R. C. Selwyn Printed caption on verso: No. 69993 Geological Survey Party to British Columbia, at Canoe River, October 14th, 1871 10 x 8 Sir William Logan was temporary director of the Geological Survey of Canada in 1871 while Selwyn (the new director) was in British Columbia on the survey during which this photograph was taken. |
| 71. |  | Augustus Le Plongeon 1877 The size and appearance of the statue, "half as large again as the natural size," is here distinctly pictured, together with Dr. Le Plongeon standing in the rear of his discovery. The head-dress, trappings and sandals are clearly defined. Magazine plate Google Books Stephen Salisbury, Jr. "Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan", p.70-119 in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society at the Semi-Annual Meeting, held in Boston, April 25, 1877, Volume 28, p.74. [This was also privately printed as a separate volume The Mayas, The Sources of their History: Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan (Worcester, 1877) - the full text is available in the public domain at: www.gutenberg.org/files/29723/29723-h/29723-h.htm] |
| 72. |  | Augustus Le Plongeon 1877 Decorated Building at Chichen-Itza, Yucatan Magazine plate Google Books Stephen Salisbury, Jr. "Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan", p.70-119 in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society at the Semi-Annual Meeting, held in Boston, April 25, 1877, Volume 28, p.74. [This was also privately printed as a separate volume The Mayas, The Sources of their History: Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan (Worcester, 1877) - the full text is available in the public domain at: www.gutenberg.org/files/29723/29723-h/29723-h.htm] DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. 1 Represents the building at the southern extremity of the eastern wall of the so-called Gymnasium described by Stephens Travels in Yucatan, vol. II., page 308. It is supposed by Dr. Le Plongeon to have been a monument to the chieftain Chac-Mool. 2. This picture shows the upper portion of the same edifice, in which were found " the mural paintings, bas-reliefs and other signs," which gave a clue to the discovery of the statue. 3. Shows probably the locality where the statue was excavated. The same sculptured slabs that appear in picture 8 in the foreground on the right, are seen resting against a mound, in their supposed original position, and serve to indicate the identity of the localities. In the rear of the slabs is probably the heap of stones forming the pedestal for the stone figure of a tiger spoken of in the " Mexican Memorial." 4. This is probably another view in the Immediate neighborhood. Among the scattered debris is the sculptured head of a serpent, with open jaws. 5 Represents the sculptured slabs, which are seen also in pictures 3, 6 and 8. They are of unequal width, but the length and thickness was probably the same in each. 6. Another view of the sculptured slabs. The first shows a bird of prey; this is apparently a tiger. Both of them hold in their grasp objects of a similar character. Note. Several of these pictures are described in the Mexican Memorial, but are there differently numbered. |
| 73. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Bone Field on Talbot Hill, 10 miles from Canon City, Colo. Stereoview Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics This view is accompanied by a photocopied excerpt from The New Rocky Mountain Tourist, Arkansas Valley and San Juan Guide by Joseph Gladding Pangborn, 1878, that describes this area as a vast bonefield of newly discovered dinosaur fossils. |
| 74. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Bone Field on Talbot Hill, 10 miles from Canon City, Colo. Stereoview, detail Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics This view is accompanied by a photocopied excerpt from The New Rocky Mountain Tourist, Arkansas Valley and San Juan Guide by Joseph Gladding Pangborn, 1878, that describes this area as a vast bonefield of newly discovered dinosaur fossils. |
| 75. |  | Jean Chaffanjon 1886-1887 (ca) Along the Orinoco River, Venezuelan Amazon (Sur l'Orénoque) Albumen print Snite Museum of Art This photograph was taken during a late 19th-century French expedition in the Venezuelan Amazon, led by explorer anthropologist Jean Chaffanjon (1854-1913). Jean Chaffanjon published his book L'Orénoque et le Caura: relation de voyages exécutés en 1886 et 1887 (Paris, 1889) and it was very popular in France. Jules Verne's 45th volume of the 54 Extraordinary Voyages series is entitled "Superb Orénoque" and is based upon the work of Chaffanjon. |
| 76. |  | Kilburn Brothers n.d. 7994 Greely Expedition Stereocard Jefferson Stereoptics Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tues. May 23rd & Thurs. May 25th, 2006, # 06-2, Lot 658) |
| 77. |  | Kilburn Brothers n.d. 7994 Greely Expedition (Detail) Stereocard Jefferson Stereoptics Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tues. May 23rd & Thurs. May 25th, 2006, # 06-2, Lot 658) |
| 78. |  | F. Florßn 1882 Telescopio traido por la Comision Francesa para fotografiar el trßnsito de Venus frente al Sol (Bragado, Provincia de Buenos Aires) Albumen print Private collection of Roberto A. Ferrari This photograph shows the French cabin built near Buenos Aires in 1882 in order to record the transit of Venus on photographs. |
| 79. |  | William H. Bell 1882, 31 August William Bell's Department of State Introduction for the Transit of Venus Expedition National Museum of Health and Medicine National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington (OHA 111 - Bell Collection) |
| 80. |  | Marc Ferrez, Humberto Saraiva Antúnez, and José Carlos de Carvalho 1888 Moving the Bendégo Meteorite Albumen print 9 1/8 x 12 3/16 ins (23.18 x 30.96 cm) SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Foto Forum purchase, 2003.118.A-R |
| 81. |  | F. Jay Haynes 1891 Str. Queen on Ice [Alaska Views] Albumen print 5 x 8.25 in (13 x 21 cm) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs Vintage albumen print by F. Jay Haynes, ca. 1891. Mounted on boudoir-size card (5.25 x 8.5 inches) with reverse imprint for "Alaska Views … Photographed and Published by F. Jay Haynes & Bro., Official Photographers N.P.R.R. 392 Jackson St., Cor. 6th, St. Paul, Minn. Yellowstone Park and Northern Pacific Views." along with a list of views in the series. |
| 82. |  | Nils Strindberg 1897, 14 July The "Örnen" / "Eagle" [S. A. Andrée and Knut Frænkel with the crashed balloon on the pack ice] Black and white photograph Creative Commons - Wikipedia The remains of the expedition were discovered by the Bratvaag Expedition in 1930 along with five rolls of exposed film and 93 of the photographs were saved. Published in the French magazine L'illustration, December 1930. |
| 83. |  | Nils Strindberg 1897, 19 July S.A. Andrée with the first polar bear shot by the explorers Black and white photograph Creative Commons - Wikipedia This was published on: http://www.zwoje-scrolls.com/zwoje41/text08p.htm |
| 84. |  | Edward S. Curtis 1899 (taken) 1901 (print) Eskimo Winter Hut, Plover Bay, Siberia (Alaska) [Harriman Alaska Expedition: May-August, 1899] Photogravure Private collection of Jan Weijers (Servatius) Courtesy of Jan Weijers |
| 85. |  | William Finley / Herman Bohlman 1900 (ca) Ellis Hadley (left) William Finley (center) and Herman Bohlman wading across a river on their way to a red-tailed hawks' nest Gelatin silver print Oregon State University Libraries Original Collection: MSS - William L. Finley Papers |
| 86. |  | Unidentified photographer 1840s Group portrait of three men posed with an Everest theodolite and other instruments Daguerreotype Museum of the History of Science One of the men may be Sir George Everest (1790-1866), military engineer and surveyor, after whom both the theodolite and mountain are named. |
| 87. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1855 (ca) Elisha Kent Kane Ambrotype, 1/6 plate Source requested [Provenance unknown: Information on current owner requested] |
| 88. |  | W.P. Egbert 1865 Charles Christopher Parry, Botanist Carte de visite Wisconsin Historical Society Increase Allen Lapham: Papers, 1825-1930, carte-de-visite collection, WHS Image id: WHi-46969 Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles C. Parry (1823-1890), American Botanist. Parry is most famous for his botanical research in the southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado. A self-described "exceptionally unselfish and kind," man, Parry never published a book and catered more to the public at large than the scientific community, focusing on newly-discovered plants that he found to have ornamental value. Shown here standing in a full-length portrait, carrying a tube-shaped container. Handwritten inscription at the bottom reads, "C.C. Parry, 1865." © Wisconsin Historical Society W.P. Egbert (No. 45 Brady Street, Davenport, Iowa) |
| 89. |  | Elliott & Fry 1874 (ca) Thomas H. Huxley, Biologist Carte de visite Wisconsin Historical Society Increase Allen Lapham: Papers, 1825-1930, carte-de-visite collection, WHS Image id: WHi-45423 Elliott & Fry (55 Baker Street, Portman Square) Carte-de-visite portrait of Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog." He also coined the term "agnosticism" to describe his religious beliefs. Handwritten text at the bottom of the image reads,"Huxley." © Wisconsin Historical Society |
| 90. |  | Unidentified photographer 1862 (ca) William Landsborough with his native guides Jemmy and Jacky Albumen silver print National Library of Australia nla.pic-an10570995 A studio portrait of the explorer and his native guides, in a velvet-lined leather-covered case of the kind normally used for daguerreotypes and ambrotypes. Probably taken on his return to Melbourne from one of the Burke and Wills relief expeditions. |
| 91. |  | Talma & Co. 1874 Portrait of John Forrest explorer of Western Australia Black & white print 18.7 x 13 cm (image) 29.6 x 21.8 cm (mount) National Library of Australia nla.pic-an23382380 Inscriptions: "Groom; The old [?] Sir John Forrest, explorer, West Australia" --In pencil on reverse. "Talma & Co., Talma type, 119 Swanston St. and at Sydney" --Printed lower left to right. "John Forrest, 1874" --Signed in ink lower centre. |
| 92. |  | A. Sonrel (46 School Street, Boston) 1864 (ca) Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Geologist Carte de visite Wisconsin Historical Society Increase Allen Lapham: Papers, 1825-1930, carte-de-visite collection, WHS Image id: WHi-44730 Carte-de-visite portrait of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born American zoologist, geologist and glaciologist. Founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1860. Founding member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1863. Agassiz is shown sitting in three-quarter profile. Handwritten inscription at bottom reads, "Agassiz 1864." August Sonrel, to whom this credit refers, was a gifted 19th Century lithographer whom Agassiz had hired a number of years earlier to make images for a monograph on American fish. © Wisconsin Historical Society |
| 93. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1902 (ca) The Late Major J.W. Powell Carte de visite Wisconsin Historical Society Increase Allen Lapham: Papers, 1825-1930, carte-de-visite collection, WHS Image id: WHi-47856 Portrait, with accompanying obituary entry, of Major John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), American soldier, explorer, and geologist. Best known for the Powell Geographic Expedition in 1869, an exploration of the Green and Colorado rivers that marked the first passage through the Grand Canyon. © Wisconsin Historical Society |
| 94. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1876-1883 Charles Darwin [Men of Mark] Woodburytype Dominic Winter Book Auctions Auction Sale: Sept 3, 2008 - Lot: 102 |
| 95. |  | Lock & Whitfield 1876 (ca) Captain Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) Woodburytype 3,5 x 4,5 in / 90 x 115 mm (ca) Eastern Window (Jan van der Wal) Courtesy of Jan van der Wal (var5-05) English explorer, author and linguist. Explored together with Richard Speke Africa where they discovered Lake Tanganyika. Served in the army of the East India Company and later in the Crimea. As consul for the British Foreign Office he was sent to a.o. Brasil and Syria. Two titles of books by him are "Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah" and "Falconry in the Valley of the Indus" |
| 96. |  | Southwell Brothers 1864 (or later) John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) Carbon print, sepia-toned 23 ins x 18 1/8 ins (58.4 x 46 cm) National Portrait Gallery - NPG Purchased, 1996, NPG P658 This version of the photograph is included in Wikipedia (October 2010). Curatorial notes from the National Portrait Gallery An engraving of this photograph was used as the frontispiece to Speke's Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863). Speke is shown in his expedition clothes with sextant and shotgun. The studio backdrop shows an imaginary view of Lake Victoria. |
| 97. |  | Unidentified photographer 1908 (published) Charles Doughty Book plate Creative Commons - Wikipedia Charles Montagu Doughty Wanderings in Arabia, (London: Duckworth, 1908) |
| 98. |  | London Stereoscopic Company n.d. Mr. Stanley, in the dress he wore when he met Livingstone in Africa. Carte de visite Source requested A copy of this photograph is in the collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Inventory number: SA.5153-12) and their curatorial description (accessed: 5 September 2013) reads: This photograph was shot in 1872, in London, when Stanley was back from his journey to find Livingstone. It is part of a series, emphasizing the idea of so-called exploration and long travels in Africa. Riffle, high leather boots, helmet etc. were classical accessorizing items which may be found in other portraits, illustrating travels of the Victorian era. This photograph is part of an Album kept in the Henry M. Stanley Archives (King Baudouin Foundation Collection held in trust at the RMCA). |