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Boston, Plymouth, and New Bedford Photograph Album, ca. 1888-1915

24 photographs and 1 postcard in 1 album

The Boston, Plymouth, and New Bedford photograph album contains 24 images of scenes in Boston, Plymouth, and New Bedford in Massachusetts as well as one cyanotype postcard of a young woman.

The Boston, Plymouth, and New Bedford photograph album contains 24 images of scenes in Boston, Plymouth, and New Bedford in Massachusetts as well as one cyanotype postcard of a young woman.

The album (16 x 19.5 cm) has leather covers with the word “Photographs” stamped on the front in gold. A loose card is included that provides explanatory information and corresponding page numbers for each photograph in the album. Most of the photographs are outdoor scenes with groups of people. Images of note include views of Park Street in Boston looking towards the capitol building, the 1867 suspension bridge, Ether Monument and Washington Monument in the Boston Public Gardens, the Boston Public Waterworks from Beacon Street in Chestnut Hill, a fisherman, an old whaling ship in New Bedford, Plymouth-area monuments, cemeteries, and downtown, and two people in a carriage in front of the Egypt Train Depot in Scituate, Massachusetts. Also present is a cyanotype postcard of a young woman sitting and reading with “Miss Mary E. Black/Eggemoggin, Maine” written on the back.

Collection

Caribbean Vacation Photograph Album, 1892-1897

110 photographs in 1 album

The Caribbean vacation photograph album contains 110 commercially produced photographs compiled by an unidentified traveler during visits to several Caribbean countries and territories.

The Caribbean vacation photograph album contains 110 photographs compiled by an unidentified traveler during visits to several Caribbean countries and territories.

The album (30.5 x 25.5 cm) is bound with gray leather. All photographs are unmounted and most are accompanied by hand-written and printed captions including dates. It remains unclear whether the dates listed with captions (ranging from 1892 to 1897) refer to when a photograph was originally taken or when the photograph was acquired by the album's anonymous compiler. Certain photographs appear to have possibly been reproductions of earlier daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, etc. Most images were commercially produced by professional photographers, some of whom are identified in captions.

Caribbean locations represented include Cuba, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Barbados, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, and Curacao. Also present are views of Caracas, Venezuela, as well as St. Augustine and Rock Ledge in Florida. In addition to street scenes, landscapes, occupational portraits, and architectural views, there are also numerous images depicting local civilians engaged in various activities, including many portraits of Afro-Caribbean men, women, and children.

Contents include views of the Alcazar Hotel and a slave market building in St. Augustine; a silk tree, The Queen's Staircase, and a banana garden in Nassau; views of Columbus Cathedral, Columbus Memorial Chapel, the Tomb of Columbus, an Afro-Caribbean stagecoach driver, Moro Castle, and Our Lady of Mercy Church in Havana, Cuba; the Cienfuegos Cathedral and plaza; a group of people performing a "Zapatec Dance (sic)"; views of the steamers Orinoco and Trinidad likely shown docked in Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda; the Princess Hotel, Harrington Sound, Pyramid Rock, Hungary Bay, Tucker's Cave, "Queen Cave," and St. Peter's Church in Bermuda; the H.M.S. Tourmaline in the Bermuda floating dry dock; a bird's-eye view of St. George's, Bermuda; a coral rock quarry scene; views of Jamaican scenery including Port Antonio, Annotto Bay, Castleton Garden, a "Negro Cottage," Kingston, the Rio Cobre Hotel, a bog walk in Spanishtown, and a group of Afro-Caribbean sugarcane cutters; "Blue Beard's Castle" on St. Thomas; a group of masqueraders performing in a parade on St. Kitts; a leper hospital on Rat Island, Antigua; a large group portrait of Afro-Caribbean women doing laundry in a river on Guadeloupe; a view of a windmill in Barbados; a studio portrait of an Indo-Trinidadian woman; a view of a coffee plantation in Grenada; a view of La Guaira, Venezuela; and views of Caracas, Venezuela, including the interior of the "American Home" and the house of former president Antonio Guzmán Blanco; views of Curaçao including the harbor; and a studio portrait of an Afro-Caribbean woman posing with water coconuts.

Collection

Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico Views Collection, ca. 1885-1915

24 photographs in 1 album

The Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico views collection contains 24 photographs of places and people in the western United States, British Colombia, and Mexico.

The Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico views collection contains 24 photographs of places and people in the western United States, British Colombia, and Mexico.

The collection is stored in a modern brown plastic binder (30.5 x 23.5 cm). Contents consist of images of the Ferguson area of British Columbia; pack mules at work; a gold mine in Oatman, Arizona; Idaho Springs, Colorado; Santa Fe and Laguna, New Mexico; a woman from Cuernavaca, Mexico; buildings (including a Mexican cathedral); portraits of Native Americans in New Mexico; and mountains in Colorado. The collection include mounted and unmounted photographs ranging in size from cartes de visite to prints on 20 x 25 cm mounts.

Collection

Hudson Valley African Americans Photograph Album, ca. 1860s-1900s

25 photographs and 1 silhouette in 1 album

The Hudson Valley African Americans photograph album contains 25 photographic portraits and 1 silhouette portrait of African Americans in New York State’s Hudson Valley region.

The Hudson Valley African Americans photograph album contains 25 photographic portraits and 1 silhouette portrait of African Americans in New York State’s Hudson Valley region.

The album (25.5 x 22 cm) has red and orange velvet covers with silver adornments and clasp while the pages are faux wood boards. Contents include 10 cabinet cards, 5 tintypes, 8 cartes de visite, 1 real photo postcard, 1 snapshot, and 1 silhouette. All or most subjects appear to be African American and include men, women, and children of a variety of ages. The silhouette shows a man in profile wearing a bowler hat smoking a cigar.

Images of particular note include portraits of an older man with a long beard, an older woman wearing black mourning clothing, a younger woman posing next to what appears to be some type of doll or taxidermied animal, a portrait of a woman taken by Pirie MacDonald on pg. 11 (produced at some point prior to MacDonald's decision to exclusively photograph men), and two carte de visite copies of a portrait of a bearded man with lighter skin.

Collection

Marguerite H. Voll photograph album, ca. 1909-1920

87 photographs in 1 album

The Marguerite H. Voll photograph album includes 87 photographs documenting family activities and various events in Plymouth, Wisconsin, as well as Chicago, Illinois.

The Marguerite H. Voll photograph album includes 87 photographs documenting family activities and various events in Plymouth, Wisconsin, as well as Chicago, Illinois.

The album (28.5 x 35 cm) has black cloth with “Photographs” stamped in gold on the front cover. Images include portraits of the Bade, Schram, and Fiedler families as well as views of parades in Chicago (including a Barnum & Bailey Circus parade), group portraits of the Plymouth Hook and Ladder bicycle team, the Sheboygan County Fair, natural landscape scenes, cars, trains, farming, and photographic reproductions of sentimental art. Of particular note is a portrait of Marguerite Bade riding a floor sweeper as an infant in 1909.

Collection

Mills Family Photograph Album, ca. 1890-1905

approximately 200 images and 6 loose photographs in 1 album

The Mills family photograph album consists of approximately 200 images and 6 loose photographs documenting a trip to London, Ontario, as well as the daily life of a well-to-do family in Marysville, Michigan.

The Mills family photograph album consists of approximately 200 images and 6 loose photographs documenting a trip to London, Ontario, as well as the daily life of a well-to-do family in Marysville, Michigan.

The album (28 x 38 cm) has leather covers with the stamped initials “HEM” of the compiler Hannah Elizabeth Mills. Contents include photographs of the Marysville “Lower Mill,” residences belonging to Hannah’s brother Myron, numerous portraits of people including Hannah's youngest sister Hally, two photographs of Hally from when she had diphtheria in 1891, “Hal” in a darkroom likely in the Mills family home, people playing tennis, the Mills family cemetery plot, views of a trip to Stag Island, Ontario, an apparently ill person lying on a cot, and several views documenting a trip to what may be a relative’s home in London, Ontario. Also present are images from a winter "In the Lumber Woods, 1891", an excursion to Niagara Falls in 1894, the town of Pinckney, Michigan, following a tornado, and wedding gifts for Mary Margaret Mills and Walter Jasperson Hopkins.

Collection

Robert M. Vogel Collection of Historic Images of Engineering & Industry, ca. 1850s-2004 (majority within ca. 1850s-1900)

approximately 22,890 photographs (including 18,500 stereographs), 1220 prints, 13 photograph albums, 11 books, 117 pieces of ephemera, 15 pieces of realia

The Robert M. Vogel collection of historic images of engineering & industry contains approximately 22,890 photographs (including 18,500 stereographs), 1220 prints, 13 photograph albums, 11 books, 117 pieces of ephemera, and 15 pieces of realia documenting a wide range of subjects primarily related to 19th-century civil engineering, industrial processes, and mechanization.

The Robert M. Vogel collection of historic images of engineering & industry contains approximately 22,890 photographs (including 18,500 stereographs), 1220 prints, 13 photograph albums, 11 books, 117 pieces of ephemera, and 15 pieces of realia documenting a wide range of subjects primarily related to 19th-century civil engineering, industrial processes, and mechanization.

Particularly well-represented topics within the Vogel collection include images of different types of civil infrastructure such as bridges, canals, roads, dams, and tunnels as well as images showing construction projects, various types of machinery, modes of transportation (such as railroads, steamboats, automobiles, etc.), agricultural pursuits, natural resource extraction (including oil drilling, quarrying, mining, and lumbering), textile operations, electrical and hydraulic power generation, manufacturing, metal working, machine shops, and various industrial factory scenes. Many images of important and iconic structures are included such as the Brooklyn Bridge, Panama Canal, Hoosac Tunnel, and SS Great Eastern. Other represented topics include general architectural views, scenes of disasters/accidents, and portraits of notable individuals (such as Thomas Edison, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Robert Stephenson). While predominately United States-focused, the materials are international in scope overall and especially include many images of industrial sites and civil infrastructure in Great Britain. The order of the collection's original arrangement has largely been kept intact.

Examples of items of particular interest include salt prints possibly taken by civil engineer Montgomery C. Meigs documenting the construction of the U.S. Capitol and Washington Aqueduct in Washington, D.C.; a series of portraits of early Baldwin Locomotive Works locomotives; images documenting the SS Great Eastern and USS Niagara steamships; a group of 4 colored stereoviews on glass produced by Frederick Langenheim showing the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge ca. 1850s; images related to specific railroads including the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Mauch Chunk, Mount Washington Cog Railway, and New York City elevated railroad; and half-frame proof prints of stereographs produced by Underwood & Underwood as well as H. C. White & Co.

The following list represents the general subject categories found across the Vogel collection along with relevant box and folder numbers:

Agriculture & foodstuffs
  • Box 07.2
  • Box 14.1
  • Box 14.2
  • Box 14.3
  • Box 31.2
  • Box 52
  • Box 56
  • Folder 2.10
  • Folder 3.08

Bridges--Cantilever
  • Box 06.2
  • Box 06.3
  • Folder 1.08
  • Folder 2.15

Bridges--General
  • Box 01.1
  • Box 03.3
  • Box 06.3
  • Box 07.1
  • Box 28.2
  • Box 28.3
  • Box 46.2
  • Box 57
  • Box 58
  • Box 59
  • Box 61
  • Box 63.10
  • Folder 1.04
  • Folder 2.04
  • Folder 2.09
  • Folder 2.14
  • Folder 2.15
  • Folder 2.16
  • Folder 3.08

Bridges--Girder & tubular
  • Box 06.1
  • Box 06.2
  • Folder 2.06

Bridges--Masonry
  • Box 03.1
  • Box 03.2
  • Folder 2.17
  • Folder 3.08

Bridges--Metal
  • Box 03.3
  • Box 04.1
  • Box 04.2
  • Box 04.3
  • Box 05.3
  • Box 05.4
  • Box 06.1
  • Folder 3.08

Bridges--Moveable
  • Box 05.1

Bridges--Suspension
  • Box 01.1
  • Box 01.2
  • Box 01.3
  • Box 02.1
  • Box 02.2
  • Box 28.3
  • Box 43.2
  • Folder 3.02
  • Folder 3.08
  • Folder 3.10

Bridges--Timber
  • Box 02.3
  • Box 05.2
  • Box 06.1
  • Box 49.1
  • Box 49.2

Canals
  • Box 09.1
  • Box 09.2
  • Box 36.1
  • Box 36.2
  • Box 39.1

Construction
  • Box 08.2
  • Box 08.3
  • Box 18.4
  • Box 28.1
  • Box 28.3
  • Box 46.1
  • Box 53.2
  • Box 58
  • Box 61
  • Box 63.08
  • Box 63.11
  • Folder 1.03
  • Folder 2.16
  • Folder 2.17

Disasters
  • Box 06.3
  • Box 17.3
  • Box 20.1
  • Box 24.3
  • Box 25.1
  • Box 28.1
  • Box 41.1
  • Box 54
  • Box 57
  • Folder 1.07
  • Folder 2.16

Explosives
  • Box 11.2
  • Box 45.2

Industry--General
  • Box 27.1
  • Box 27.2
  • Box 27.3
  • Box 39.2
  • Box 46.1
  • Box 46.2
  • Box 56
  • Box 57
  • Box 58
  • Box 59
  • Box 63.02
  • Box 63.03
  • Box 64.1
  • Folder 1.05
  • Folder 1.11
  • Folder 1.13
  • Folder 2.04
  • Folder 2.11
  • Folder 2.17
  • Folder 3.08

Machinery
  • Box 07.2
  • Box 07.3
  • Box 08.1
  • Box 08.2
  • Box 28.1
  • Box 28.2
  • Box 43.2
  • Box 46.3
  • Box 52
  • Box 54
  • Box 56
  • Box 57
  • Box 59
  • Box 63.04
  • Box 64.2
  • Box 64.4
  • Folder 1.09
  • Folder 2.05
  • Folder 2.10
  • Folder 2.12
  • Folder 2.17
  • Folder 3.08

Manufacturing
  • Box 07.1
  • Box 07.2
  • Box 13.2
  • Box 13.3
  • Box 14.1
  • Box 27.2
  • Box 27.3
  • Box 31.2
  • Box 32
  • Box 33.1
  • Box 33.2
  • Box 34
  • Box 35
  • Box 36.1
  • Box 37
  • Box 39.2
  • Box 40
  • Box 41.2
  • Box 42
  • Box 43.1
  • Box 43.2
  • Box 46.2
  • Box 53.1
  • Box 53.2
  • Box 60.1
  • Box 61
  • Box 63.01
  • Box 63.03
  • Box 64.1
  • Box 64.3
  • Folder 1.03
  • Folder 1.07
  • Folder 2.05
  • Folder 2.06
  • Folder 2.11
  • Folder 2.15
  • Folder 3.03
  • Folder 3.08
  • Folder 3.09
  • Folder 3.12

Miscellaneous
  • Box 15.1
  • Box 43.2
  • Box 44
  • Box 55.1
  • Box 55.2
  • Box 60.1
  • Box 60.2
  • Box 62
  • Folder 1.01
  • Folder 1.02
  • Folder 1.12
  • Folder 3.07

Natural resources--Fossil fuels
  • Box 11.2
  • Box 11.3
  • Box 12.1
  • Box 12.2
  • Box 13.2
  • Box 23.1
  • Box 61
  • Folder 2.05

Natural resources--General
  • Box 11.2
  • Box 12.2
  • Box 14.2
  • Box 63.07

Natural resources--Lumber
  • Box 12.2
  • Box 12.3
  • Box 12.4
  • Box 13.1
  • Box 13.2
  • Box 37
  • Box 46.2
  • Box 57
  • Box 58

Natural resources--Metals
  • Box 21.3
  • Box 22.1
  • Box 22.2
  • Box 22.3
  • Box 28.1
  • Box 39.2
  • Box 61
  • Folder 2.14
  • Folder 2.15
  • Folder 3.08

Natural resources--Mining
  • Box 23.1
  • Box 23.2
  • Box 23.3
  • Box 24.1
  • Box 24.2
  • Box 40
  • Box 41.2
  • Box 50.1
  • Box 50.2
  • Box 51
  • Box 52
  • Box 55.1
  • Box 55.2
  • Box 61
  • Folder 1.03
  • Folder 2.02
  • Folder 2.05
  • Folder 2.14
  • Folder 3.02
  • Folder 3.10

Natural resources--Quarrying
  • Box 29.1
  • Box 29.2
  • Box 30
  • Box 46.1
  • Box 57
  • Folder 1.07

Natural resources--Textiles
  • Box 24.3
  • Box 25.1
  • Box 25.2
  • Box 25.3
  • Box 26.1
  • Box 26.2
  • Box 26.3
  • Box 27.1
  • Box 27.3
  • Box 37
  • Box 38
  • Box 39.2
  • Box 40
  • Box 41.1
  • Box 42
  • Box 46.3
  • Box 64.1
  • Folder 3.06

Natural resources--Water supply
  • Box 10.3
  • Box 11.1
  • Box 11.2
  • Box 41.2
  • Folder 3.05
  • Folder 3.12

Personalities
  • Box 01.1
  • Box 10.3
  • Box 28.3
  • Box 39.1
  • Box 46.3
  • Box 56
  • Box 64.2
  • Box 64.3
  • Folder 2.15
  • Folder 3.06
  • Folder 3.07

Power--Electricity
  • Box 08.1
  • Box 28.1
  • Box 46.3
  • Box 64.2

Power--Hydraulic
  • Box 09.3
  • Box 10.1
  • Box 10.2
  • Box 10.3

Transportation--Aerial
  • Box 39.1

Transportation--Automobiles
  • Box 34
  • Box 42
  • Box 56
  • Box 63.07
  • Folder 2.16

Transportation--General
  • Box 15.1
  • Box 28.2
  • Box 31.2
  • Box 33.2
  • Box 36.2
  • Box 54
  • Box 58
  • Box 64.3
  • Folder 2.16
  • Folder 3.04

Transportation--Marine
  • Box 19.1
  • Box 19.2
  • Box 19.3
  • Box 20.1
  • Box 20.2
  • Box 20.3
  • Box 21.1
  • Box 21.2
  • Box 21.3
  • Box 28.2
  • Box 45.2
  • Box 46.3
  • Box 57
  • Box 59
  • Box 63.09
  • Folder 2.08
  • Folder 2.11
  • Folder 2.14
  • Folder 3.05
  • Folder 3.07
  • Folder 3.08

Transportation--Railroads
  • Box 15.1
  • Box 15.2
  • Box 15.3
  • Box 16.1
  • Box 16.2
  • Box 16.3
  • Box 16.4
  • Box 17.1
  • Box 17.2
  • Box 17.3
  • Box 18.1
  • Box 18.2
  • Box 18.3
  • Box 18.4
  • Box 28.1
  • Box 28.2
  • Box 31.1
  • Box 35
  • Box 46.2
  • Box 47
  • Box 48.1
  • Box 48.2
  • Box 49.1
  • Box 56
  • Box 57
  • Box 58
  • Box 59
  • Box 61
  • Box 63.05
  • Box 63.06
  • Folder 1.06
  • Folder 1.10
  • Folder 2.01
  • Folder 2.03
  • Folder 2.04
  • Folder 2.06
  • Folder 2.07
  • Folder 2.10
  • Folder 2.13
  • Folder 2.16
  • Folder 3.04
  • Folder 3.07
  • Folder 3.10
  • Folder 3.11
  • Folder 3.12

Tunnels
  • Box 28.2
  • Box 43.1
  • Box 43.2
  • Box 45.1
  • Box 45.2
  • Folder 2.06

Views--General
  • Box 08.1
  • Box 08.2
  • Box 25.1
  • Box 28.3
  • Box 39.1
  • Box 39.2
  • Box 46.3
  • Box 53.2
  • Box 56
  • Box 57
  • Box 59
  • Box 64.2
  • Box 64.4
  • Folder 1.04
  • Folder 2.04
  • Folder 2.15
  • Folder 2.16

While the Vogel collection general subject categories are generally comprehensive there are still numerous instances of items that could feasibly belong to multiple categories other than the group they are classified under. For instance, there are disaster images found in several groupings other than "Disasters," while bridge construction images can be found in all of the various "Bridges" categories as well as within the "Construction" category. For more detailed descriptions of specific materials, see the box and folder listing in the Contents section below.

Collection

T. E. Hecht California views photograph album, ca. 1856-1900 (majority within ca. 1856-1875)

approximately 234 photographs in 1 album

The T. E. Hecht California views photograph album contains approximately 234 copies of photographs of Californian scenery originally produced by various photographers between 1856 and 1875 that were reproduced and compiled by photographer Treu Ergeben Hecht between 1890 and 1900.

The T. E. Hecht California views photograph album contains approximately 234 copies of photographs of Californian scenery originally produced by various photographers between 1856 and 1875 that were reproduced and compiled by photographer Treu Ergeben Hecht between 1890 and 1900.

The album (32 x 20 cm) has a leather spine with "Photographs" gilt stamped on the front and marbled paper cover boards. Contents are organized into geographic sections and mainly consist of street scenes, architectural profiles, aerial views, and landscape photographs documenting aspects of several Californian cities including San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Grass Valley, Nevada City, Copperopolis, Sonora, Knight's Ferry, Lake Tahoe, Cisco, Benicia, Vallejo, and Mare Island. San Francisco-related content is the most prevalent material and includes views of the Express Building, Chinatown, Russian Hill, the Mission District, Woodward's Gardens, Portsmouth Square, Telegraph Hill, Union Square, San Francisco Bay, North Beach, Broadway Wharf, the Stock Exchange, Cliff House, Market Street Railway, the Palace Hotel, and more. This album purportedly once belonged to former mayor of San Francisco James "Sunny Jim" Rolph, Jr.

Many images include handwritten captions identifying places and buildings, and in some cases the original photographer is credited. Original negatives were mainly produced during the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. Photographers whose works have been reproduced include George R. Fardon, Lawrence & Houseworth (later Thomas Houseworth & Co.), Eadweard Muybridge, W. M. Stuart, and William J. Shew. Two photographic reproductions of non-photographic materials are also present including a print of San Francisco with several building vignettes as well as a document titled "Proposed Plan for Completing the County Jail." Of particular note are images of people and businesses in Chinatown, the aftermath of the 1868 Hayward earthquake, the airship Avitor Hermes, Jr. prior to takeoff during in 1869, numerous views showing businesses and storefronts (including the photography studios of Silas T. Selleck, Thomas Houseworth & Co., and W. M. Stuart), and pictures of missions across California.

Collection

Traveling photographers collection, ca. 1850s-1900s

approximately 245 photographs

The Traveling photographers collection contains approximately 245 examples of photographs produced by various traveling photographers that operated in the United States primarily during the latter half of the 19th-century.

Works by approximately 145 different traveling photographers are present in this collection and include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, stereographs, tintypes, and a small number of larger format images. For many of these photographers there is only a single example of their work included in the collection. Locations of operation include a wide range of regions across the United States, with eastern states such as Pennsylvania being particularly well-represented. Most of these photographs are typical individual and group portraits of men, women, and children.

The collection has been divided into two volumes. Volume 1 contains cartes de visite and tintypes while Volume 2 contains cabinet cards, stereographs, and a few other images with larger mounts of varying sizes. Volume 1 also includes two clippings and one photocopied page from an article about traveling photographers written by Eaton S. Lothrop, Jr., for Popular Photography magazine as part of his "Time Exposure" column series.

While most of the people represented in this collection are unidentified, the following individuals are identified by accompanying inscriptions:
  • “Wm. Johnson” - taken by N. L. Stone (Vol 1)
  • “F. W. Huling” - taken by C. S. Roshon’s Mammoth Union Photograph Car (Vol 1)
  • “Jimmie McCool Taken in 1889” - taken by S. R. Miller’s Photograph Car (Vol 1)
  • “J. B. [or J. R.?] Enders” - taken by A. J. Miller, Keystone Traveling Gallery (Vol 1)
  • “Uncle John Grimes” - taken by H. F. Knoderer & Bro (Vol 1)
  • “J. P. Seip & Bro” - taken by Josiah Knecht (Vol 1)
  • “Angalina Seip” [Angelina Seip] - taken by Josiah Knecht (Vol 1)
  • “Julie Hamlin” - taken by Huested Bros. (Vol 1)
  • “Timo Moyer?” - taken by Geo. V. Knecht (Vol 1)
  • “Sam Rhenis Martin” and “Probably Sam Rhenis Martin’s Wife” - taken by Callahan’s Traveling Gallery (Vol 1)
  • “Mrs. R H Blodget 236 35th St. Denver Col. Formily Mary Neil” - taken by King & Co.’s Traveling Gallery (Vol 1)
  • “[?] Adaline Temple” - taken by F. J. Aiken (Vol 1)
  • “Presented to Mr. & Mrs. Silas Boyer” - taken by B. Breslow’s Empire Movable Photograph Gallery
  • “C. H. Holmes May 2nd 1881” - taken by J. B. Silvis (Vol 1)
  • “Lou House - Graham’s Baby” - taken by the Erik Borklund Photo Car (Vol 2)
  • “Olive Woodward” - taken by A. Couturier (Vol 2)
  • “Geo. H. Dunham” and “Fredd Harry Dunham” - taken by Currier & Parkinson (includes stamp depicting Landing of Columbus on verso) (Vol 2)
  • “Will Duning of Dresden” - taken by F. M. Foster (Vol 2)
  • “Pansy Lovewell” - taken by the Hutchings Rail-Road Photo-Car (Vol 2)
  • “Jabez Willes brother of Julia Willes Thrall” - taken by F. L. Hale (Vol 2)
  • “Charlie, Mary, & Bruce Blaney Claysville Washington Co Pa.” - taken by Gibson & Myres (Vol 2)
  • “Mrs. James J. Connelly #10 McConnellsburg PA” - taken by S. R. Miller’s Photograph Car (it is unclear if this inscription is related to the couple depicted) (Vol 2)
  • “Carrie and Mattie Ewan”- taken by the National Art Company’s Railroad Palace Photographic Studio (Vol 2)
  • “George & Sarah Kistler” - taken by Rollow’s Art Car (Vol 2)
  • “Leo Martin” and "Jim Martin" - both taken by the Pacific Photograph Car, Rockford, Washington (Vol 2)
  • “Arron Smith Children” - taken by the Pacific Photograph Car, Rockford, Washington (Vol 2)
  • “Miss. Kittie M. Newell July 22nd 1889” - taken by Abel J. Whalen’s Accommodation Photo. Car (Vol 2)
  • “Will Schnegg” - taken by H. C. Williams’ Floating Gallery (Vol 2)
  • “Jonas Heim” - taken by B. L. Wilson’s Traveling Gallery (“Christina Waltz Williamsport Pa.” likely a relative of the subject and former owner of the photograph) (Vol 2)
  • “April 1891 - Maggie Austin April 1891. A. M. Austin 43. E. G. ‘ ‘ 43 Mag ‘ ‘ 14 Edd ‘ ‘ 18 May ‘ ‘ 21.” - taken by W. H. Yant (Vol 2)
  • “Howard J. Martin about 1893” - taken by Boston and Albany R.R. Photo Car (Vol 2)
  • “Wash’s Daughter Pearl” - taken by F. M. Steele (Vol 2)
  • “The Boy Preacher, Age 14: John E. De Merritt” - taken by Winslow and Shobe (Vol 2)
  • “Maurice (Moe?) Boynton Alice Price } 2nd buggy” - taken by Carson Bros (Vol 2)
  • “Mrs. J. C. Boxley” - taken by Newton & Sprague Photo Car (Vol 2)

Other items of interest include 14 tintypes including a group portrait taken at the Algonquin Bon Ton Tent by W. H. Pearce and a miniature tintype produced by Douglass’ Travelling Car (Vol 1); several photographs with revenue stamps; and 10 cartes de visite by C. G. Blatt, including three items containing humorous poetry in their backstamps (Vol 1); a stereograph view of "the old Block House at Annapolis Royal" by the Palace R.R. Photograph Car Co. (Vol 2); a stereograph view of Bridgewater, Vermont (Vol 2); a stereograph view of the "Steam Packet 'Minnesota' at Hastings [Minnesota] (Vol 2); a portrait of a pet pug taken by Will. H. McMillan, R. R. Palace Photo Car that bears an inscribed caption reading: “For my dear ‘Missis’ from her Devoted ‘Brownie’” (Vol 2); a group portrait of a man and women taken by Keil & Matula with an inscribed caption reading “Czechlovakia Couple Fayetteville, TX” (Vol 2); several portraits of children that appear to show hidden mothers in the background; two studio portraits of unidentified individuals produced by Civil War veteran turned photographer Capt. J. B. Shane (Vol 2); a number of photographs that appear to be copies of earlier images, including a portrait of a man produced by the Hutchings Railroad Photo Car bearing an inscribed caption reading: “Copied from original” (Vol 2); and a possible self portrait of photographer Abel J. Whalen on a mount stamped "Whalen's 'Accommodation' Photo. Car."

The following lists contain names of photographers represented in the collection as well as the total number of images included for each photographer:

Volume 1: Cartes de visite
  • F. J. Aiken [2 images]
  • Aldhizer & Eutsler [2 images]
  • Atkinson’s Photographic Railroad Gallery [1 image]
  • L. K. Bair [1 image]
  • B. Billian [1 image]
  • C. G. Blatt [10 images]
  • A. F. Bonine [1 image]
  • E. A. Bonine [2 images]
  • J. K. Bottorf [1 image]
  • Bowdish's Traveling Gallery [1 image]
  • B. Breslow’s Empire Movable Photograph Gallery [2 images]
  • Brown & Huard [1 image]
  • Burchfield & Bottorf [1 image]
  • J. Bushong [1 image]
  • Callahan’s Travelling Gallery [3 images]
  • H. P. Carnes [1 image]
  • Coggeshall’s Excelsior Photographic Car (John Ingersoll Coggeshall) [2 images]
  • G. W. Dibert [1 image]
  • W. A. Dietrich [4 images]
  • Doran's Photographic Car [1 image]
  • Dougherty (Mammoth wagon) [2 images]
  • Dougherty & Cope (Mammoth wagon; J. L. Cope) [3 images]
  • J. W. Fothergill's Mammoth Photograph Car [1 image]
  • F. Z. Fritz [2 images]
  • William R. Godkin [1 image]
  • M. C. Goodell [4 images]
  • William Griffin [2 images]
  • Harry Gurlitz’s Photograph Car [1 image]
  • W. H. Heiss [2 images]
  • J. J. Hodge [2 images]
  • J. M. Horning & Co. [2 images]
  • Huested Bros. [1 image]
  • Johnson & Sullivan’s Portable Railroad Gallery [1 image]
  • King & Co.’s Traveling Gallery [1 image]
  • George V. Knecht [5 images]
  • Josiah Knecht [8 images]
  • H. F. Knoderer & Bro. [1 image]
  • C. L. Leonard [3 images]
  • J. Loveridge [1 image]
  • C. D. Luccock [1 image]
  • J. H. McGowan (U.P.R.R. Photographic Car) [1 image]
  • A. J. Miller [1 image]
  • S. R. Miller's Photograph Car [2 images]
  • William Nick [3 images]
  • Nick & Knecht [2 images]
  • E. W. Peirce (The Railroad Photograph Coach) [1 image]
  • Lewis P. Peter [7 images]
  • Peter & Kresge [1 image]
  • Peters & Brother [1 image]
  • F. B. Pine's Floating Photographic Studio, of the St. John's River, Fla. [1 image]
  • S. Place [1 image]
  • Portable Picture Palace [1 image]
  • G. M. Primrose [2 images]
  • W. H. Rector [4 images]
  • C. S. Roshon (Mammoth Union photograph car) [1 image]
  • J. B. Silvis (U.P.R.R. Photographic Car) [2 images]
  • C. H. Sisson [1 image]
  • C. M. Stark [1 image]
  • N. L. Stone [1 image]
  • A. Stoppel [1 image]
  • Tucker & Powell [1 image]
  • W. A. Vale [1 image]
  • M. C. Vance [1 image]
  • D. S. Von Nieda [1 image]
  • Horace L. Webber [1 image]
  • West & Lewis (Travelling photographers) [1 image]
  • Whalen's Portable Art Gallery (Abel J. Whalen) [1 image]
  • L. H. Whitson (Professor L. H. Whitson's Rail Road Photographic Car) [1 image]

Volume 1: Tintypes
  • Bishop's Portable Photograph Gallery [1 image]
  • J. Davidson [1 image]
  • Doolittle & Humphrey's Tintype and Ferrotype Car [1 image]
  • Dougherty & Cope (Mammoth wagon; J. L. Cope) [1 image]
  • Douglass’ Traveling Car [2 images]
  • Paul’s Mammoth Travelling Photograph and Ferro-type Car [1 image]
  • W. H. Pearce (The Algonquian Bon Ton Tent) [1 image]
  • E. B. Squier [2 images]
  • A. D. Terhune [1 image]
  • Williams & Dodge’s Photograph Cars [2 images]
  • C. C. Williams [1 image]

Volume 2: Cabinet cards
  • Antoinette Palace Railroad Photo Car (Studio Antoinette) [2 images]
  • Blocker Palace Art Studio and Traveling Cottage Gallery [1 image]
  • Erik Borklund [1 image]
  • Boston and Albany R. R. Photo Car [2 images]
  • W. A. Bradley [1 image]
  • P. L. Britain (Palace R. R. Photo Car.) [1 image]
  • Clark’s Portable Gallery [1 image]
  • J. P. Coffey, Photo. Car. (J. N. Bayles) [1 image]
  • A. Couturier [2 images]
  • James H. Crockwell [1 image]
  • Currier & Parkinson [1 image]
  • J. W. Dalrymple [1 image]
  • Drum Rail Road Photo Car (Oscar Drum) [1 image]
  • Elite R. R. Photo Co. [1 image]
  • Fallman Parlor Photo Car [3 images]
  • F. M. Foster [1 image]
  • Gibson & Myres, Traveling Photographers [1 image]
  • F. L. Hale [2 images]
  • F. J. Haynes [3 images]
  • T. E. Hays [1 image]
  • Howell (Prairie Queen Gallery - Temple, Tex.) [1 image]
  • Hutchings Bros. Railroad Photo. Car [1 image]
  • Hutchings Rail-Road Photo-Car [3 images]
  • K. C. Photo Car [1 image]
  • Keil & Matula, Traveling Photographers [1 image]
  • Keystone Portable Gallery [1 image]
  • Lyden & Bellinger [1 image]
  • Malloy (20th Ave. No. & Wash. Minneapolis) [1 image]
  • William H. McMillan [1 image]
  • J. W. Merideth [1 image]
  • S. R. Miller [3 images]
  • National Art Company’s Railroad Palace Photographic Studio [1 image]
  • Newton & Sprague Photo Car. [1 image]
  • Nowack Bros. Floating Gallery [1 image]
  • Pacific Photograph Car [4 images]
  • Palace R.R. Photograph Studio [1 image]
  • Lewis DeArcy Rollow (Rollow’s Art Car) [2 images]
  • J. B. Shane [2 images]
  • Showman & Joy’s Palace Cars [1 image]
  • Smith Brothers [1 image]
  • C. H. South [1 image]
  • F. M. Steele [1 image]
  • The K. C. Art Chariot [1 image]
  • The Stuart Queen City Photo Co's. Great Australian Route, Car No. 12 [4 images]
  • The Traveling Art Company [1 image]
  • M. F. Timmerman (East Tenn. Photo Car) [1 image]
  • Tooley & Grigsby (The Monarch Traveling Photographers) [1 image]
  • Turner & Johnson [1 image]
  • N. A. Watkins [1 image]
  • Welsh & Harlow [1 image]
  • West & Lewis (Travelling photographers)
  • Whalen's "Accommodation" Photo. Car. (Abel J. Whalen) [2 images]
  • H. C. Williams (Williams' Floating Gallery) [1 image]
  • B. L. Wilson's Traveling Gallery [1 image]
  • Wilson's Railroad Photo Car. (B. L. Wilson) [1 image]
  • Winslow and Shobe [1 image]
  • Wolfe & Peiffer (Keystone Traveling Photo Studio) [2 images]
  • W. H. Yant [1 image]
  • Young, Portrait Artist (Boston Portrait Car) [1 image]

Volume 2: Stereographs
  • T. A. Aldrich [1 image]
  • Coggeshall’s Excelsior Photographic Car (John Ingersoll Coggeshall) [2 images]
  • Mrs. Emma A. Cooke's Traveling Photo. Pavillion (Emma A. Cooke and W. A. Cooke) [1 image]
  • J. P. Doremus [1 image]
  • H. H. H. Langill [1 image]
  • Palace R. R. Photograph Car Co. [1 image]
  • F. B. Pine's Floating Photographic Studio, of the St. John's River, Fla. [1 image]
  • W. E. Warren's Portable Photograph House [2 images]

Volume 2: Larger formats
  • J. A. Bellinger [1 image]
  • Carson Bros. [1 image]
  • Newton & Sprague Photo Car. [1 image]
  • D. R. White [1 image]