William Ashburner collection of photographs from the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Genre:Illustrated works

Physical Description:148 mounted photographic prints : albumen ; images chiefly 20 x 27 cm, mounts 46 x 62 cm.

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:227534063

Notes:

Formerly housed in 2 volumes, apparently bound by the library

On printed mounts, with ms. captions. Captions differ from official captions found elsewhere, but seem to have been made by a survey member

Clarence King was the geologist in charge of the expedition

Some views, particularly those in the Uinta Mountains, have been re-attributed to Andrew J. Russell. (Attributions by Glenn Willumson in Framing the west: the survey photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Yale Univ. Press, 2010. p. 177-185)

Six views present on a 19th century listing of the collection are missing from the Ashburner set. These are items 9-12, 59, and 131. See finding aid for item identifications