Stereoviews of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1872, 1872

Processed by Padma Rubiales, and Katherine Ruiz.

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

1997

Stereoviews of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1872, 1872

BANC PIC 19xx.090--STER

The Bancroft Library

University of California

Berkeley, California 1997

Finding aid and digital representations of archival materials funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Processed and encoded by:

California Heritage Digital Image Access Project staff in The Bancroft Library and The Library's Electronic Text Unit

Digital images processed by:

The Library Photographic Service

Finding aid completed:

March 1997

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Stereoviews of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1872,

Date (single): 1872

Collection Number: BANC PIC 19xx.090--STER

Extent: 35 photographic prints ; stereograph, albumen ; 10 x 18 cm. 35 digital objects

Photographer: William Bell

Repository: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is available for use.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Stereoviews of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1872 , BANC PIC 19xx.090--STER, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Digital Representations Available

Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.

Related Collections

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.055--ffALB,

Title: Photographs Taken During the U.S. Geological Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, 1871-1873, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.089--STER,

Title: Stereoviews of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1871, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.091--STER,

Title: Stereoviews of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1873, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.273--PIC,

Title: Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.). New Mexico Photographs from the 1873 Geographical Survey West of the 100th Meridian

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1905.17116-.17119--STER,

Title: Western Survey Expeditions of 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Unknown

Biography

William Bell was born in Liverpool, England in 1830. His career as a photographer began as a daguerreotyper working for John Keenan beginning in 1848. In 1852 he opened his own daguerreotype gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1873 he took on William H. Rau as an assistant photographer and later became his partner (1870s). Bell's photographic collections include the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian Expedition of 1872, and Expeditions of 1871, 1872, 1873 and 1874. He died in 1910 in Philadelphia.

(Source: Treadwell, T. K. and William C. Darrah. Stereographers of the World. [Byran, Texas] : National Stereoscopic Association, c1994, v. 2.)

Scope and Content

This collection consists of 35 stereographs of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1872, photographed by William Bell. Includes views from the Utah Series, the Colorado River Series, and the Geological Series. The locations photographed include: Mt. Nebo, Willow Creek Canyon, Salt Creek Canyon, Gunnison, Mt. Baldy, Kanab Canyon, Colorado Basin, Paria River, the Grand Canyon, miscellaneous Arizona scenes, and others. The photographer's numbers are retained for the numbering system, which accounts for the gaps in numbering. Printed captions below the photographs are reprinted in the container listing.

Container Listing

:3 Mt. Nebo foothills, from the West.

Photographer's number: 3

Photographer's series: Utah Series. Explorations West of the 100th Meridian. Expedition of 1872, Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Com'dg.