The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

Lot comprised of 15 photographs documenting the American West. Images in varying conditions though most feature some toning or fading, and spotting, with wear to mount edges and corners. Including the following:

2 albumen photographs of the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, uncredited but originally taken by William Henry Jackson in the 1880s. Includes views of Gate Rock and Cathedral Spires. Each photograph measures approx. 13 1/4 x 10 in., and is mounted on 19 3/4 x 15 in. cardstock (spotting and toning to prints and mounts; edge and corner wear to mounts including chipping and areas of minor loss). -- Hand-colored print showing Los Pueblos de Taos, New Mexico. Detroit, MI: Detroit Photographic Company. After photograph taken by William Henry Jackson. 3 1/2 x 7 in. (sight), matted, with publication information on verso. -- Cabinet card, Pikes Peak from Manitou, Colorado. Denver, CO: R.M. Davis. Mount verso with photographer's imprint and printed information about the series, "One the Line of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway." -- The Raymond Excursion Party. Salem, Oregon. 28 June 1884. Portland, OR: Partridge, 1884. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. photograph on cardstock mount with title and photographer's credit printed in lower margin, showing a group of men, women, and children gathered together (toning and spotting to print and mount). -- Cabinet card of people horseback riding on Santa Barbara Beach. Santa Barbara, CA: Hayward & Muzzall. -- Cabinet card showing what appears to be multi-story home overlooking a courtyard. San Francisco, CA: Bradley & Rulofson.

[With:] 8 stereoviews on pink, peach, and buff cardstock mounts, all but two credited to B. W. Kilburn or the Kilburn Brothers of Littleton, NH, on verso. Titles include: Camping Out, Col. This view features geologist Dr. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden seated with fellow scientists. There is also a Black man standing off to the side, likely acting as an attendant to the members of the party. -- The Great Loop. Silver Plume, Col. U. S. A. -- Hold Your Breath, Uncompahgre Canyon, Col. U. S. A. -- (2) Our Trip to the Mines, Ouray, Col., U. S. A. -- The Miners Ships, Ouray, Col. U. S. A. -- Packing...Sinching the Load. -- View of Charles Bierstadt's photographic party with photographic equipment at Yosemite Valley. Niagara Falls, NY: C. Bierstadt.