EARLY AMERICAN PHOTOS
You don't have to be a history buff to enjoy these remarkable photos from another time.
This is an incredible collection of tinted photochromes from the end of the 19th century and dawn of the 20th, hiding away in the Beinecke rare books and manuscript library. Published by the Detroit Photographic (which no longer exists), the firm's photographers traveled the country snapping the sights of North America to be printed on postcards and sold to the public.
Gold's Curio Store, Santa Fe, New Mexico, circa 1897.
This was the first Indian curio business established in Santa Fe. The ramshackle old adobe building with wood carrying burros in front of and or around the corner on Burro Alley made this innovative curio shop on San Francisco street a favorite subject for photographers of the late 19th century. Jake Gold, a brilliant salesman, cast himself as a man worthy of a souvenir portrait card as a moustached, frilly leather jacketed rugged frontiersman complete with a muzzle-loaded pistol stuck in his braided sash belt. He was equally colorful in discourse, "The tourists want to hear tales, and I am here to administer the same."
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Pulpit Terraces from Above, Yellowstone National Park circa 1898. I found very little information on the current state of these terraces today and could only find old photographs of them. They may have changed names to the Travertine terraces.
Glacier Point and Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, 1898
The Lobby, Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone Park, ca 1897, still open.
Navaho Woman Weaving a Blanket, 1902
Interior of Corridors, Mission San Juan Capistrano, CA, 1906. Now this 200 year-old monument has been restored (especially after the fatal 1812 earthquake) and you can still visit.
Old Caretaker at Mission San Juan Capistrano, 1897 (see caption above).
California grapefruit, 1902
The Arcade, Cleveland, 1901, still open for business.
Glen Afton Spring, near Pen Mar Park, 1903. No current information found, appears to be lost to the modern world.
You don't have to be a history buff to enjoy these remarkable photos from another time.
This is an incredible collection of tinted photochromes from the end of the 19th century and dawn of the 20th, hiding away in the Beinecke rare books and manuscript library. Published by the Detroit Photographic (which no longer exists), the firm's photographers traveled the country snapping the sights of North America to be printed on postcards and sold to the public.
Gold's Curio Store, Santa Fe, New Mexico, circa 1897.
This was the first Indian curio business established in Santa Fe. The ramshackle old adobe building with wood carrying burros in front of and or around the corner on Burro Alley made this innovative curio shop on San Francisco street a favorite subject for photographers of the late 19th century. Jake Gold, a brilliant salesman, cast himself as a man worthy of a souvenir portrait card as a moustached, frilly leather jacketed rugged frontiersman complete with a muzzle-loaded pistol stuck in his braided sash belt. He was equally colorful in discourse, "The tourists want to hear tales, and I am here to administer the same."
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Pulpit Terraces from Above, Yellowstone National Park circa 1898. I found very little information on the current state of these terraces today and could only find old photographs of them. They may have changed names to the Travertine terraces.
Glacier Point and Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, 1898
The Lobby, Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone Park, ca 1897, still open.
Navaho Woman Weaving a Blanket, 1902
Interior of Corridors, Mission San Juan Capistrano, CA, 1906. Now this 200 year-old monument has been restored (especially after the fatal 1812 earthquake) and you can still visit.
Old Caretaker at Mission San Juan Capistrano, 1897 (see caption above).
California grapefruit, 1902
The Arcade, Cleveland, 1901, still open for business.
Glen Afton Spring, near Pen Mar Park, 1903. No current information found, appears to be lost to the modern world.