Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Illustrations of Hudson's Bay Company forts of the American West.
BANC PIC 1922.002--BLOCAL
Collection Overview

Title:

Illustrations of Hudson's Bay Company forts of the American West

Creator/Contributor:

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Abstract:

One photographic view of Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Vancouver and 8 vintage photographic prints of drawings. The photograph (United States Photograph No. 3) depicts the interior of the Hudson's Bay Company post at Fort Vancouver, probably in May, 1860. Drawings depict: Fort Hall, Fort Boise, Fort Walla Walla (i.e. Fort Nez Percés), Fort Okanagan [sic], and the Hudson's Bay Co. mill near Fort Colville. Several views include Indians.

Date:

186- (issued)

Subject:

n-usp--
Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- Pictorial works
Fortification -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works
Pacific railroads -- Explorations and surveys -- Pictorial works
Chemins de fer du Pacifique (États-Unis) -- Explorations et relevés -- Ouvrages illustrés
Discoveries in geography
Fortification
Indians of North America
Pacific railroads -- Explorations and surveys
West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Pictorial works
Vancouver Barracks (Wash.) -- Pictorial works
Fort Hall (Idaho) -- Pictorial works
Fort Boise (Idaho) -- Pictorial works
Fort Nez Percés (Wash.) -- Pictorial works
Fort Okanogan (Wash.) -- Pictorial works
Northwest, Pacific -- Discovery and exploration -- Pictorial works
Idaho -- Fort Boise
Idaho -- Fort Hall
Pacific Northwest
West United States
Washington (State) -- Fort Nez Percés
Washington (State) -- Fort Okanogan
Washington (State) -- Vancouver Barracks
Hudson's Bay Company -- Pictorial works
British and American Joint Commission for the Final Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies -- Pictorial works
Hudson's Bay Company.

Note:

Views are presumably copy photographs made by Alexander Gardner or his assistants (ca. 1860-1867) for the British and American Joint Commission for the Final Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural Companies. Most mounted on verso of card stock bearing the name of A. Gardner, photographer. Photographic view of Fort Vancouver is mounted on recto of a Gardner mount.
Images 6-9 are reproduced as lithographs in: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicabale and economical route for a railroad ... made ... in 1853-55 ... v. XII, book 1 (1860).
Each mount bears a ms. caption and the ms. heading "United States Photographs", followed by a number.
Transferred from the Alexander Smith Johnson papers (BANC MSS P-B 208).

Type:

graphic
Pictorial works.
Albumen prints.

Physical Description:

photoprint
9 photographic prints : albumen ; images 17 x 23 cm. or smaller.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 1922.002--BLOCAL

Origin:

United States

Related Item:

Alexander Smith Johnson papers : Johnson, Alexander Smith, : 1817-1878