View of what are identified as the homesteads of Henderson and Hankins and snow covered Blanca Peak (Sierra Blanco, Sierra Blanca), possibly Costilla County, Colorado. Shows a creek, log cabins, a tent, an outhouse, and wagons.
View of Fort Garland, in Fort Garland (Costilla County), Colorado; Sierra Blanca mountain is in the distance.
Fort Garland (Colo.)--1850-1890.; Fort Garland (Fort Garland, Colo. : Fort)--1850-1890.; Sierra Blanca (Colo.)--1850-1890.; Forts & fortifications--Colorado--Fort Garland--1850-1890.; Military facilities--Colorado--Fort Garland--1850-1890.
Panoramic view of a high mountain lake, sparse trees, the Sierra Blanca ridge (Cerro Blanco), and Blanca Peak in probably Costilla County or Alamosa County, Colorado. Shows a rocky ridge and possibly Lake Como.
Blanca Peak (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Colorado--1870-1880.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--1870-1880.; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)
View of Portola, California; shows homes, businesses, the Western Pacific Railroad depot, and tracks of the narrow gauge Sierra and Mohawk.
Sierra and Mohawk Railway--1910-1920.; Western Pacific Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Portola (Calif.)--1910-1920.; Narrow gauge railroads--California--Portola--1910-1920.; Railroad stations--California--Portola--1910-1920.
Men stand on a hillside beside a Denver and Rio Grande Railway locomotive, passenger car and a caboose on La Veta Pass in probably Huerfano County, Colorado. A log building is beside tracks. Shows snow on Blanca Peak (Sierra Blanca) in the distance.
Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1870-1880.; Blanca Peak (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Huerfano County (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Veta Pass (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Passes (Landforms)--Colorado--Huerfano County--1870-1880.; Railroads--Colorado--Huerfano...
View of snow removal on the Central Pacific Railroad near Emigrant Gap in the Sierra Nevadas in Placer County, California. Chinese laborers remove snow in Blue Canyon.
Central Pacific Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Alien labor, Chinese--California--1890-1900.; Blue Canyon (Calif. : Town)--1890-1900.; Emigrant Gap (Calif.)--1890-1900.; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--1890-1900.; Blizzards--California--1890-1900.;...
View of desert, Sierra Nevada mountains, and a volcanic crater in the Owens Valley, Inyo County, California.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations.; Inyo County (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Owens Valley (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--1890-1910.; Craters--California--Inyo County--1890-1910.; Deserts--California--Inyo...
Photograph of a drawing by J.M. Bagley shows a Denver and Rio Grande Railroad locomotive and passenger train in a valley on Veta Pass (La Veta Pass) in Huerfano County or Costilla County, Colorado. Shows steep mountain slopes and snow on mountains...
Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Sierra Blanca (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Veta Pass (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Passes--Colorado--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--1880-1890.
Panoramic view of Pasadena (Los Angeles County), California. Shows houses, trees, cultivated fields, commercial buildings, and utility poles. The San Gabriel Mountains are in the distance.
Pasadena (Calif.)--1900-1910.; San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--California--Pasadena--1900-1910.; Croplands--California--Pasadena--1900-1910.
View from a hillside of orchards, fields, houses, and barns in Pasadena (Los Angeles County), California. The San Gabriel Mountains (Sierra Madre Mountains) are in the distance.
Pasadena (Calif.)--1900-1910.; San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)--1900-1910.; Croplands--California--Pasadena--1900-1910.; Hills--California--Pasadena--1900-1910.; Orchards--California--Pasadena--1900-1910.
View of Henderson and Hankins Park, Sierra Blanco, probably, Costilla County, Colorado; shows a creek, log cabins, a tent, an outhouse, wagons, and snow covered peaks.
View of Blanca (Costilla County), Colorado; shows houses and town buildings. Low stratus clouds swathe the Sangre de Cristo Mountains; cirrus formations fill the sky.
A man wears a hat, holds a rifle and stands near what is identified as Apache Lake in the White Mountains in Navajo County or Apache County (later Fort Apache Indian Reservation), Arizona. Shows steep basalt bluffs and trees on a hillside.
White Mountains (Ariz.)--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Arizona--1870-1880.; Lakes & ponds--Arizona--1870-1880.; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)
A Native American (Apache) family poses beside canvas-covered wickiups and tents in Gila County, Arizona. The women and girls wear blouses with gathered yokes and ruffled skirts. Two of the girls pose with a woven olla and a woven basket. A boy...
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Public Relations--1910-1920.; Apache baskets--Arizona--Gila County--1910-1920.; Apache Indians--Arizona--Gila County--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--Arizona--Gila County--1910-1920.; Apache Trail...
Clouds and mountains are reflected in Theodore Roosevelt Lake above Theodore Roosevelt Dam in Gila County, Arizona. Water cascades from the spillways on either side of the masonry dam wall. The Lodge Hotel is on the shore nearby. The rocky,...
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Public Relations--1910-1920.; Apache Trail (Ariz.)--1910-1920.; Gila County (Ariz.)--1910-1920.; Sierra Ancha (Ariz.)--1910-1920.; Theodore Roosevelt Dam (Gila County, Ariz.)--1910-1920.; Dams--Arizona--Gila...
Two men in small boat slide down a narrow, wooden flume filled with water in the Sierra Nevada Range in Nevada or California. Shows the flume on a tree-covered mountain, rock formations and summits in the distance.
View of a tent camp, identified as Sierra Camp, in Sequoia National Park, California. Striped canvas tents are among pine and sequoia trees. A wooden building is in the distance.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations.; Sequoia National Park (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Camps--California--Sequoia National Park--1890-1910.; Forests--California--Sequoia National Park--1890-1910.; Giant sequoias--California--Sequoia...
View of a tent camp, identified as Sierra Camp, in Sequoia National Park, California. Striped canvas tents are in the forest. A folding table is in the hollow trunk of a large giant sequoia tree.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations.; Sequoia National Park (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Camps--California--Sequoia National Park--1890-1910.; Giant sequoias--California--Sequoia National Park--1890-1910.; National parks &...
View of Mount Williamson, in the Sierra Nevada range, in Inyo County (now John Muir Wilderness), California; desert flanks jagged peaks.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations.; Inyo County (Calif.)--1890-1910.; John Muir Wilderness (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--1890-1910.; Williamson, Mount (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Deserts--California--Inyo...
View of hay fields, a house, a dilapidated windmill, a barn, orchards, and the Sierra Nevada range, in the Owens Valley, Inyo County, California.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations.; Inyo County (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Owens Valley (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--1890-1910.; Farms--California--Inyo County--1890-1910.; Valleys--California--Inyo...
View of desert, distant farms, and the Sierra Nevada range, in the Owens Valley, Inyo County, California.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations.; Inyo County (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Owens Valley (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--1890-1910.; Deserts--California--Inyo County--1890-1910.; Valleys--California--Inyo...
View of desert, Mount Williamson, the John Muir Wilderness Area, and the Sierra Nevada range, in the Owens Valley, Inyo County, California.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations.; Inyo County (Calif.)--1890-1910.; John Muir Wilderness (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Owens Valley (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--1890-1910.; Williamson, Mount...
View of grass, creosote bushes, and the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Owens Valley, Inyo County, California.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations.; Inyo County (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Owens Valley (Calif.); Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--1890-1910.; Valleys--California--Inyo County--1890-1910.
View of dry grass, distant poplar trees, and the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Owens Valley, Inyo County, California.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations.; Inyo County (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Owens Valley (Calif.); Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--1890-1910.; Valleys--California--Inyo County--1890-1910.
View of dry grass, s sheepdog, and the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Owens Valley, Inyo County, California.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations.; Sheep dogs--California--Inyo County--1890-1910.; Inyo County (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Owens Valley (Calif.)--1890-1910.; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--1890-1910.; Dogs--California--Inyo...
Riding equipment, including a saddle and reins, lies on a rack in front of a cabin built on a mountaintop above timberline near Falls City, Colorado. Patches of snow cover the shale fields above the cabin.
Falls City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Falls City--1890-1900.
A Pony Express rider, probably in Nevada, rides down a snowy slope in probably the Carson Range. Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains are in the distance.
Carson Range (Nev. and Calif.)--1860-1870.; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--1860-1870.; Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.)--1860-1870.; Horseback riding--1860-1870.; Lakes & ponds--1860-1870.; Pony express--Nevada--1860-1870.; Snow--1860-1870.;...
Garland City, Colorado, was a construction camp while the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad was being built over La Veta Pass between 1877 and 1878. The entire town moved to the new townsite of Alamosa in May 1878. The town includes a main street with...
Painting, American.; Mountains in art.; Sun--Rising and setting--Pictorial works.; Sierra Blanca Range (N.M.)--Pictorial works.; La Jara River (Colo.)--Pictorial works.; La Plata Range (Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Watercolors (Paintings)
Painting, American.; Mountains in art.; Sun--Rising and setting--Pictorial works.; Sierra Blanca Range (N.M.)--Pictorial works.; Colorado--Pictorial works.; Watercolors (Paintings)