[Photograph album of a trip from California to Portland, Oregon by steamer and train] [graphic], [1905]

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Summary

Creators:
B.W. Merrill, Boston, Mass.
Abstract:
Album of amateur photographs documenting a trip by steamship and train from California [San Francisco?] to Portland, Oregon to visit the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905.
Extent:
1 album (80 photographic prints) : gelatin silver, 24 x 29 cm (album)
Language:
Finding aid is written in English. and Materials are in English.

Background

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
Physical facet:

Photographs (approximately 6 x 18.5 cm) are mounted to rectos of leaves of heavy black paper, three to a page; captions in faded white ink below some of the photographs. A single photograph (12 x 17.5 cm) of unidentified houses at water's edge of a river or bay is laid in, stamped on verso with photographer's name: "Photographed by B.W. Merrill, Boston, Mass."

Bound in limp red suede covers, laced together with red suede leather ties; tooled illustration on upper cover of a poinsettia flower and title "Photos."

Spec. Coll. copy: in modern beige cloth clamshell box.

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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