1899 Photograph Album From The Atlantic To The Pacific; Volume 3. Covering California, Utah, Colorado

BARKER, C.B. & EVA BARKER

Publication: 1899,

11 x 13 1/2" x 1 1/2," bound in brown heavy pebble-surface cloth, leather corners & spine, with gilt line-and-scroll rules. With the 'title' in three paper strips affixed to the top cover: "Book IIII - Tour of 1899 - From the Atlantic to the Pacific." Houses 84 photographs, mostly via studios including 11 by Parker & Co., 1 by Waite, 21 by Taber, 5 by C.R. Savage, 14 by F.P. Stevens as well as several Cyanotype prints. The album consists of photographs and supporting ephemeral paper related to the journey. All photographs and ephemeral items are pasted directly to pages and each has hand-written description of location and most with brief information. Through research, we have determined that the album most likely belonged to Charles Bell Barker and his wife. C.B. Barker Manufacturing Co./Barker Silver Co. specialized in silverware and was located in New York, New York, from around 1895-1900 and then in Milford, Connecticut, from around 1900-1901. Photographs in this album include: Parker & Co. Photo, (11), with their studio name & title of image in the print; photos are approx. 5" x 8" size, including: # 710 Palmettos, Magnolia Ave. Riverside Cal.; # 299.A. Palm Drive Avenue; Palmetto Palm (faded); # 744 Date Palm Los Angeles Cal.; # 906 Canyon Crest Park (faded); # 912 The Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel; #1621 Arcadia Hotel Beach Santa Monica; # 650 Mount Lowe view (railway, observatory, hotel in distance); # 605 Alpine Tavern Mount Lowe Railway; # 991 The Oaks at (head) of the (burro) Trail Sou. Cal.; # 995 The Half Way House Wilson’s Peak Trail Sou. Cal. Waite (1861-1927) Photo (1), with their studio name & title of image in the print; photos are approx. 5" x 8" size, including: # 943 At Baldwin's Ranch So. Cal.  Charles Betts Waite (1861-1927) "…Active in Escondido and San Diego area in 1891, working with H. E. Coonley before moving to Los Angeles and Mexico. Brother of San Diego Sun editor Frank D. Waite." Unknown (2): Cable car incline Echo Mountain; (and another) Ruffin Canyon cable car route. (May also be Waite studio) Taber Photo, San Francisco (21), with their studio name & title of image in the print; photos are approx. 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" size, including: # 8785 Seal Rocks, S.F. Cal.; # 7879 Japanese Garden, Golden Gate Park; # 7903 Huntington Falls, Golden Gate Park; # 2490 Study on Pescadero Creek – Redwood Cal.; # 5116 Wawona Hotel A.D. 1890 (faded a little); # 2452 "Wawona" 26 feet diameter…Mariposa Grove; # 5897 Hotel Vendome, San Jose Cal.; # 5874 Lick Observatory road, Half way up Mt. Hamilton; # 4780 General View Lick Observatory, San Jose; # 4480 Hotel Del Monte – front-Monterey Cal.; # 324 Arizona Garden, "Hotel del Monte" Monterey; # 4495 The grounds of the hotel; # B 292 Cypress Drive, near Midway Point; # B 271 Cypress Tree, near Cypress Drive; # 2516 Cal. ... A Study (album notes this was seen "On the Road to Santa Cruz, on the side of the Rail Road;" # 5907 Big Trees Santa Cruz (3); # 6590 Stoneman House, J.J. Cook, Proprietor Yosemite Valley, 1894; # 6999 Yosemite Stage Coach, April 1895; # 6990 General View of the Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, April. Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912) "…When Watkins lost his studio and negatives to creditor John J. Cook. Cook, along with photographer I. W. Taber, took over the Yosemite Art Gallery.…In the 1906 at the time of the S.F. Earthquake he was 76, lost his gallery and negative collection, that was the end of his photographic career." Unknown. Photograph of a drawing of the bathing pavilion on the Great Salt Lake UT, (the first 'Saltair' resort) approx. 6" x 8." C.R. Savage Photo (5), with their studio name & title of image in the print; photos are approx. 5 3/4" x 8" size, including: Mormon Temple, Salt Lake; Interior of Mormon Tabernacle; Eagle Gate erected by B. Young; Gardo House…erected by Brigham Young; (portrait) Brigham Young. C.R. (Charles Roscoe) Savage (1832-1909) "… one of the foremost 19th century landscape photographers of the western United States, as well as a renowned studio portrait photographer, with his studio in Salt Lake City, Utah…" F.P. Stevens (14), with their studio name & title of image in the print; photos are approx. 6" x 8" size, including: Rain in Manitou, Col; Railroad up Pike's Peak; View of Mountain rail road; view of the Valley of Manitou from RR; Half Way house "stop of ten minutes is made for water;" Nearing the top Pike's Peak; Top of Pike's (This page with a few paragraphs of historical touring information); Burro-portrait 'the only way up;' Scenery along the Denver & Rio Grande RR in the Rocky Mountains; Colorado & Midland RR scenery; # 601. Pike’s Peak Ave. Colorado Springs; North Cheyenne Canyon; Seven Falls; South Cheyenne Canyon. (Note: these images are very finely detailed silver prints; only slight silvering on some borders) Fred Park Stevens (1872 - 1915) Photographic reproduction process inventor and "The Man that Made Colorado Famous." The Stevens-identified section is followed by (6) additional photos, in the same size format and albumen process; we speculate that they may also by Stevens’ studio images: Sentinel Rock Garden of the Gods Col. Springs; Balance Rock; Seven Falls; Giant Gate Way entrance; Seal & Turtle Rocks; and the Devil's Punch Bowl. Photographs followed by 24 detailed hotel-bill receipts for the travelers, from The Arlington, Washington DC; The Jefferson, Richmond VA; Charleston Hotel, Charleston SC; The De Soto, Savannah GA; The St. James, Jacksonville, FL; Hotel Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, FL; Battle House Co., Mobile AL; Hotel Grunewald, New Orleans LA; Tremont Hotel, Galveston TX; Capitol Hotel, Houston TX; The Driskill Hotel, Austin TX; Menger Hotel, San Antonio TX; Hotel Westminster, Los Angeles, CA; Echo Mountain House, CA; Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, CA; Hotel Florence, San Diego, CA; Place Hotel, San Francisco CA; Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, CA; Hotel Vendome, San Jose, CA; Golden Eagle Hotel, Sacramento CA; Hotel Knutsford, Salt Lake City UT; The Colorado, Glenwood Springs, CO; The Brown Palace Hotel, Denver CO; and the Coates House Management Co. Kansas City MO. Each receipt is affixed on its own page, with most measuring approximately 5" x 8." Receipts include detailed information on cost of room and all amenities. At top of each page is listed the location and the city's population at the time. This grouping is followed by two pages devoted to "Distance" - a grand total of 10,123 miles recorded. These are listed in two columns and reflect the travel between various cities, from New York to cities in the south and thence to California, and back again. The album concludes with 23 large cyanotypes, one to a page, most of them sharply detailed and measuring approximately 7 1/4" x 9 1/2." These include ... views of the exterior of a large very stately late-Victorian style home; plantings; the countryside; young deer on farm grounds; 4 photos of a classical figure statuary two of these with statuary maker marks of J.W. Fiske visible on the base; two estate firefighting rigs, one identified by marking "Pioneer No. 1" and the other a four-wheeled cart carrying metal canister fire extinguishers of the time; several of the buildings on the estate with signage: Coal Bin, Pigeon Coop, Orange County Kennels, Engine House, Pig(g)ery, Hen(n)ery, a blockhouse tower with the name of Fort Maplehurst; an image of a two-seater Horseless Carriage; this image with the handwritten name (in reverse, in the image) of C.B. Barker Central Valley N.Y. in lower margin; with another photo-print of this vehicle, an albumen (darkened & dulled, appearing damaged in the plate); as well as the interior of a pump-house; an image of a lake camp identified as Camp Maplehurst and a lake view. Laid-in are several pieces of ephemera from a European portion of the journey ... A Directory to the English and American Medical Profession in Paris, 4-sided flyer with the practitioners’ name, address, consultation hours and specialty if listed, with another Dr. added in manuscript; L'Horloge-Programme large black & white illustrated program starring Mlle. Yvette Guilbert; Programme Hippodrome Tous Les Soirs Jeanne d’Arc, starring Mlle. Litini; an unbacked G.W.W. studio 5 1/4" 7 1/2" albumen photo of the Central Station Hotel Hope St. Glasgow, with a notation in pencil on reverse; Paris Soiree Concert des Ambassadeurs program, Paula Brebion, Ouvrard, Sulbac in various skits & song numbers; menu from Le Doyen, reverse with the extensive carte des vins and with the traveler’s notation, "finest restaurant in Paris;" and a small mailing envelope from Drexel, Harjes & Co. to the Barkers. Wear to corners and edges of the binding. Items affixed to good quality paper; some of the photographic surface with some rippling; a few leaves detached; a couple of pages with evidence of some prior removals; several leaves at back are blank. Album, photographs and ephemeral materials in good to very good condition.