Ralph P. Bieber Photographs of the Overland Trail: Finding Aid
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Prints
8 x 10 in. prints
Prints 1-146
Ash Hollow, Nebraska
Bannock Creek, Idaho. A few miles west of Portneuf River
Baptist Mission to the Potawatomi Indians.
Bear River, California
Bear River, Wyoming
Beer Spring, Idaho
Benicia, California
Bidwell Bar, California, and Feather River
Brady’s Hot Springs, Nevada
California Trail Deaths
Camp Creek California, west of Leek Spring
Carson Pass, Carson Canyon, Carson River, Carson Sink
Castle Rock. South of the North Platte River
Chimney Rock, south of North Platte River
City of Rocks, Idaho
Coloma, California
View of Courthouse Rock (right) and Jail Rock (left), Nebraska
Devil’s Gate, Wyoming
Donner Party sites
Fort Hall, Idaho
Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Sites associated with John C. Frémont
Gold discovery sites
Green River and Sublette Cut-off
Hastings Cut-off
Hooper Spring, Idaho
Horseshoe Spring, Idaho.
Hot Springs (Thousand Springs), Nevada
Humboldt River and Humboldt Sink
Independence, Missouri
Independence Rock, Wyoming. (A short distance west of present Casper, Wyoming.)
Prints 147-275
Jackson Cemetery, Jackson, California
Jackson Hole
(Johnson’s Ranch.) Bear River (dry bed), near Wheatland, California (Butte County)
Kansas River
Kelsey, California
Little Goose Creek, Nevada
(Lassen’s Cut-Off.) Black Rock Desert, near Sulphur, Nevada
Leek Spring, California
Long Bar, California
John Marsh home, near Mt. Diablo, California.
Martinez, California, city cemetery
Missouri River
Mokelumne River, California, at Big Bar
Monterey, California
Mormon Bar, Mormon Island Memorial Cemetery
Mount Ophir, California
Names Hill, Wyoming. (South of LaBarge, north of Mormon Ferry of Green River.)
North Platte River
Pacific Creek and Pacific Spring, Wyoming
Placerita Canyon, California
Portneuf River, Idaho
Presidio, San Francisco, 1776-1846
Raft River, Idaho
Red Buttes, Wyoming
Register Cliff, Wyoming
Rocky Ford Crossing of the Kansas River
Ruts of the California Trail (Wyoming)
Sacramento, California
Sacrament, Gravestones in City Cemetery
St. Joseph, Missouri, cemetery
Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
Shawnee Methodist Mission, Kansas
Sheep Rock, Idaho
Sierra Nevada, California
Smiths Fork River, Wyoming
Snake River, Idaho
Range, Humboldt County, Nevada
Sonora Cemetery, Sonora, California
Fork of the American River, at Sacramento, California
South Pass, Wyoming
South Platte River, Nebraska
Split Rock, Wyoming
Stanislaus River, California
Sublette Cut-Off
Sutter’s Fort, Sacramento
Sweetwater River, Wyoming
Tragedy Spring, California
Truckee River, California
Wall Defile (Carlin Canyon), Nevada
Warm Spring, Wyoming
Wells, Nevada
Wind River Mountains, Wyoming
Woods Creek, Tuolumne County, California
Woods Crossing
12 x 14 in. prints
Prints 276-344
American Falls of the Snake River, Idaho
Ash Hollow, Nebraska
Bear River and Bear River Valley, California
Benicia Cemetery, Benicia, California
Bidwell’s Bar, California
Big Bar of the Mokelumne River, California
Black Rock Desert
Carquinez Straits, California
Carson Canyon and Carson Pass, California; Carson River and Carson Sink, Nevada
Chimney Rock, Nebraska
City of Rocks, (near Almo, Cassia County, Idaho)
Courthouse Rock, Morrill County, Nebraska
Devil’s Gate, Wyoming
Fort Hall, Idaho
Fort Kearny, Nebraska
Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Gold Discovery Site (January 24, 1848)
Gold Hill, California.
Goodyear’s Bar, California
Gravelly Ford of the Humboldt River
Hot Springs, Nevada
Humboldt River and Humboldt Sink, Nevada
Independence Rock, Wyoming
Jackson Creek, at Jackson, California
Jail Rock, Morrill County, Nebraska
Jefferson City, Missouri
Kansas River
Laramie Peak
Lassen Cut-Off and Lassen’s Ranch
Little Goose Creek, Nevada
Long Bar, California, on North Fork of Feather River
Mariposa, California
Prints 345-396
Home of John Marsh [Contra Costa County, California]
Martinez, California, City Cemetery
Missouri River
River, California
Mount Ophir, California
Placerita Canyon historical marker on the site of the gold discovery here on March 9, 1842
Platte River, Nebraska
Presidio of San Francisco, California
Saint Louis, Missouri, river front
Sheep Rock, Idaho
Sonoma Range, Nevada
South Fork of the American River
South Fork of the Yuba River
South Pass, Wyoming
South Platte River, Nebraska
Stanislaus River, California
Sublette Cut-Off. Green River, at site of Mormon Ferry
Sullivan’s Creek, California
Sutter’s Fort, Sacramento, California
Table Mountain, California
Truckee Pass and Truckee River
Tuolumne River at Jacksonville, California
Wall Defile (Carlin Canyon), Nevada
Webber Creek. Southeast of Coloma, California
Wells, Nevada
Wind River Mountains, Wyoming
Woods Creek Crossing, south of Jamestown, California
Yankee Hill, California, from its base
Prints 397-411
Antrim illustrations: Tampico to Mazatlan
Scope and Content Note
From watercolor paintings
Main plaza of Tampico, looking north.
Part of the main plaza of San Louis Potosi.
Main plaza of Guadalaxhara.
The harbour and part of the city of Mazatlan, looking southwest.
From black-and-white drawings
Camp, guards &c., on the north bank of Paneuco River, looking west by southwest. [At Tampico, Mexico.]
Entering the city proper of San Louis Potosi. Looking South.
Aerial views of Union County, New Mexico
Union County.
McNee’s Crossing.
Round Mound, Santa Fe Trail.
East of Round Mound. Scale 2"=1 mile.
East of Round Mound. Enlarged to 8"=1 mile.
U.S.G.S. Topographic Maps
California Colfax Sheet, edition of June 1892.
Colfax Quadrangle, edition of 1938; reprinted 1941.
Placerville Sheet, edition of July 1893; reprinted 1931.
3.5 x 5.5 in. prints
Note
Prints, Items 412-695
Kansas, Missouri (Bieber: Roll 1)
Kansas, Nebraska (Bieber: Roll 2)
Wyoming (Bieber: Roll 3)
Wyoming (Bieber: Roll 4)
Wyoming, Idaho (1959)(Bieber: Roll 5)
Idaho, Nevada (Bieber: Roll 6)
Nevada (Bieber: Roll 7)
Nevada and Unidentified (Bieber: Roll 8)
Unidentified landscapes (Bieber: Roll 9)
Unidentified landscapes (Bieber, Roll 10)
Jacksonville, California and Unidentified landscape (Bieber: Roll 11)
California (Bieber: Roll 12)
Stanislaus River, California (Bieber: Roll 13)
[Old Oregon Trail]
[Hudspeth’s Cut-Off, Idaho]
Southwest Indian Country
Arizona (Monument Valley, Wupatki National Monument,
New Mexico (Acoma Indian Pueblo, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Chaco Canyon: Pueblo Bonito, El Morro National Park: Inscription Rock, Zuni, and unidentified Pueblo ruins)
Head Start graduation ceremonies for Pueblo children
Churches
Unprinted, unidentified negatives
Wyoming (addenda)
Miscellaneous unidentified buildings and people
Color prints: Arizona
Color prints: New Mexico
Rolled film negatives and prints
Note
Items 696-701: Kansas and Nebraska
Alcove Spring, Kansas
Alcove Spring, Kansas
Alcove Spring, Kansas
Wakarusa and Little Wakarusa, Kansas. August 1961.
Little Blue River (Kansas and Nebraska)
Kansas and Nebrasksa
Items 702-707: Kansas and Nebraska
Items 708-713: Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, and California
Items 714-719: New Mexico and California
Note
Items 720-726: New Mexico and California
3.5 x 5.5 in. film negatives
Negatives for 412-559
Negatives for 560-695
Ephemera
Ephemera
List of pictures taken on 1957 Western trip: Missouri to Wyoming; also California. (31 handwritten pages of notes. 1 page marked 1959.)
Handbook on Fort Laramie National Monument, Wyoming.
Photographic copy of poster, “Emigration to California.”