Photograph Album of Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Other City Views: Finding
Aid
Finding aid prepared by Michelle Sanchez.
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Photograph Album of Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Other City Views
Dates (inclusive): approximately 1870s-1880s
Collection Number: photCL 135
Extent:
59 photographs in 1 disbound album; album 34.5 x 43 cm. (14 x 17 in.)
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Photo Archives
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This disbound album contains 59 photographs consisting mostly of commercial views of cities and miscellaneous subjects, dating
from circa 1870s-1880s,
including images of Mormon figureheads, Salt Lake City, Utah; city scenes of San Francisco; and some views of Native Americans
of the Southwest and Great Plains. Also included
are posed photographs of Japanese women and men in traditional dress. Photographers who contributed to this collection include
Alfred A. Hart, B.A. Hawkins, J. Notman, Charles
Roscoe Savage, and Isaiah West Taber.
Language: English.
Note:
Finding aid last updated on October 16, 2014.
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Preferred Citation
Photograph Album of Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Other City Views. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Provenance
Gift of David Magee on October 15, 1962.
Scope and Content
This disbound album contains 59 photographs consisting mostly of commercial views of cities and miscellaneous subjects, dating
from circa 1870s-1880s,
including images of Mormon figureheads, Salt Lake City, Utah; city scenes of San Francisco; and some views of Native Americans
of the Southwest and
Great Plains. Also included are posed photographs of Japanese women and men in traditional dress.
Photographs of Utah depict Mormon leader Brigham Young; third president of the Mormon Church John Taylor; Salt Lake City;
Gardo House; the Mormon Tabernacle;
and Paiute Indians being baptized into the Mormon faith by Mormon men. California photographs show Yosemite; the Sierra Nevadas;
Oakland; city scenes of San
Francisco; and the mansions of Mark Hopkins, George Crocker, Collis P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford. Other photographs
are of Paiute Indians, Navajo Indians,
Pueblo Indians, Bannock Indians, Niagara Falls, Union Square and Central Park in New York City, and the Central Pacific Railroad.
Also included are hand-colored
photographs of Japanese women and men in posed scenarios, some with musical instruments. It is unclear whether these photographs
were taken in the United States or in Japan.
Photographers who contributed to this collection include Alfred A. Hart, B.A. Hawkins, J. Notman, Charles Roscoe Savage, and
Isaiah West Taber.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885 -- Portraits.
Taylor, John, 1808-1887 -- Portraits.
Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 -- Portraits.
Central Pacific Railroad Company -- Photographs.
Gardo House (Utah) -- Photographs.
Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah) -- Photographs.
Bannock Indians -- Photographs.
Baptism -- Photographs.
Eagle dance -- Photographs.
Indians of North America--Great Basin -- Photographs.
Indians of North America—Southwest, New -- Photographs.
Japanese--Women--1800-1900 -- Photographs.
Mansions—California -- Photographs.
Navajo Indians -- Photographs.
Paiute Indians -- Photographs.
Pueblo Indians -- Photographs.
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Photographs.
New York (N.Y.) -- Photographs.
Oakland (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Salt Lake City (Utah) -- Photographs.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Forms/Genres
Photograph Albums.
Photographs.
Portraits.
Photographers
Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908, photographer.
Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909, photographer.
Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912, photographer.
Item 1a
[Advertisement for I.W. Taber (Isaiah West Taber) & Co. Yosemite views, with photos of people and scenery]
Item 1b
[Portrait of Irvin McDowell, major general. Photographer: J. Notman]
Item 1c
“Utah’s Best Crop” [Collage of babies and young children, presumably Utah citizens. Photographer: possibly Charles Roscoe
Savage]
Item 2a
Honble. [Honorable] John Taylor [Mistakenly labeled as Brigham Young]
Item 2b
Prest. [President] Brigham Young [Mistakenly labeled as John Taylor] [Photographer: Charles Roscoe Savage]
Item 4
Temple Block (interior) [1880]
Item 6
The Tabernacle. Organ 50 feet high
Item 7
Baptism of Indians by Mormons. St. George, Utah [Photographer: Charles Roscoe Savage. Shirwit Indians
(a band of the Southern Paiute) being baptized by Mormons in southern Utah, 1875. Man performing baptism is Daniel P. McArthur,
President of the St. George, Utah, Stake of the Mormon
church. At right with hand on lapel is Sheriff Augustus P. Hardy.) [Source: Alfred L. Bush and Lee Clark Mitchell. The Photograph
and the American Indian. p. 55]
Item 8
Black Rock, Salt Lake. Antelope Island in the distance
Item 9
San Francisco from House Road
Item 10
Oakland from McClure’s military academy
Item 13a
[Yosemite and Sierra Nevada Mountains]
Item 13b
[Yosemite and Sierra Nevada Mountains]
Item 13c
Central Pacific RR [Railroad]
Item 13d
The Grand Crater [Yosemite]
Item 13e
[Yosemite and Sierra Nevada Mountains]
Item 15a
Hopkins Mansion, San Francisco [Site of Mark Hopkins Hotel. Leland Stanford Mansion stands behind Hopkins Mansion]
Item 15b
Crocker Mansion, San Francisco [Site of Grace Cathedral. Collis P. Huntington’s mansion can be seen at right of photograph]
Item 16 S
an Francisco looking west from Telegraph Hill
Item 17
[Central Park, New York?]
Item 20a
[San Francisco cable car barn]
Item 26a
“Venus and Adonis” [Indian couple from unidentified tribe]
Item 26b
Bannack [Bannock] Indians [Two men seated] 26c [Caucasian family outside a log cabin]
Item 27a
The Eagle Dance—Pueblo Indians
Item 27b
[Caucasian and Indian men sitting in yard]
Item 27c
[Indian man standing on rocks]
Item 27d
[J.P. Lower in center of group of Indians. Back row: Buckskin Tim, Ne-gaf, AIt-set-sah, Passoon, Nalaratz, Smoke. Middle
row: Chavano, J.P. Lower, Pi-ah. Front of group: Emma, Kop-e-sit] [Photographer: B.A. Hawkins]
Item 28a
Residence of Prest. [President] B. [Brigham] Young. [The Gardo House]
Item 28b
[Indian pottery and ceramic figures]
Item 28c
Navajoe [sic] [Navajo] Indian & hut
Item 29a
[Caucasian man and Navajo man with cart of hay]
Item 29b
[Paiute squaws and children. Stereo half attributed to A.A. Hart]
Item 36
[Two Japanese women with possibly a koto and gottan. Hand-colored]
Item 37
[Japanese woman in high shoes. Hand-colored]
Item 38
[Two Japanese women embracing. Hand-colored]
Item 39
[Three Japanese women with fans and musical instruments. Hand-colored]
Item 40
[Japanese. Man pulling woman in rickshaw. Two women talking to woman in rickshaw. Hand-colored]
Item 41
[Five Japanese women in traditional dress. Hand-colored]
