Collection Summary
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Scope and Content
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Stereoviews of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1872
Date: 1872
Collection Number: BANC PIC 19xx.090--STER
Photographer:
William Bell
Extent:
35 photographic prints ; stereograph, albumen ; 10 x 18 cm.
35 digital objects
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is available for use.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted
in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted
to research and educational purposes.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Stereoviews of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1872, BANC
PIC 19xx.090--STER, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Digital Representations Available
Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image
files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto
35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD
files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.
Related Collections
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.055--ffALB,
Title:
Photographs Taken During the U.S. Geological Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, 1871-1873, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.089--STER,
Title:
Stereoviews of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1871, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.091--STER,
Title:
Stereoviews of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1873, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.273--PIC,
Title: Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.).
New Mexico Photographs from the 1873 Geographical Survey West of the 100th Meridian
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1905.17116-.17119--STER,
Title:
Western Survey Expeditions of 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Unknown
Biography
William Bell was born in Liverpool, England in 1830. His career as a photographer began as a daguerreotyper working for John
Keenan beginning in 1848. In 1852 he opened his own daguerreotype gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1873 he took on
William H. Rau as an assistant photographer and later became his partner (1870s). Bell's photographic collections include
the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian
Expedition of 1872, and
Expeditions of 1871, 1872, 1873 and 1874. He died in 1910 in Philadelphia.
(Source: Treadwell, T. K. and William C. Darrah.
Stereographers of the World. [Byran, Texas] : National Stereoscopic Association, c1994, v. 2.)
Scope and Content
This collection consists of 35 stereographs of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1872,
photographed by William Bell. Includes views from the Utah Series, the Colorado River Series, and the Geological Series. The
locations photographed include: Mt. Nebo, Willow Creek Canyon, Salt Creek Canyon, Gunnison, Mt. Baldy, Kanab Canyon, Colorado
Basin, Paria River, the Grand Canyon, miscellaneous Arizona scenes, and others. The photographer's numbers are retained for
the numbering system, which accounts for the gaps in numbering. Printed captions below the photographs are reprinted in the
container listing.