[Western Photographica]

[Large Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Recording the Lives and Travels of the Owners of a Colorado Ranch]

[Various locations in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, and Utah: 1934-1935]. Seventy-four leaves, illustrated with 485 photographs and picture postcards, between 2 x 3 inches and 4.75 x 6.75 inches, occasionally annotated in manuscript in white pencil. Oblong folio. Contemporary black textured cloth, string tied. Small stain near right edge of front cover. Internally very clean and well organized. Very good plus. Item #3380

A voluminous collection of photographs picturing the lives and travels of Pat and Marge Williams, centered on their ranch in Colorado. The images capture the landscape and buildings on the ranch, both exterior and interior, as well as the livestock, grain fields, and more. Several photographs capture farming activities including the harvesting of the alfalfa crop and the threshing of the wheat. The album also includes photos of the area around the ranch and within Colorado, in places such as North Park, Estes Park, Cheyenne Plains, Grand Lake, and Fort Collins, with images of Long's Peak, Mary's Lake, Spanish Peaks, Big Fish Lake, White River, Trapper's Lake, and others. The album also features locations visited by the compiler in the American West and Southwest, with informative photos of Taos Mountain, Cimarron Canyon, Kit Carson's house, the pueblos and ruins in Taos and Puye, House Rock Valley, Bryce Canyon, Zion Canyon, and other sites in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, and Utah. Some of the original photographs and postcards feature Native American subjects, such as Native American women in Taos, "Victoriano Sisneras and Wife" in Puye, and Navajo rug weavers at work in Arizona. Other interesting images depict a "Hopi Watch Tower" in the Grand Canyon, the Mojave Desert, "Old Fort Bridger" in Wyoming, "Dinosaur tracks near Tuba City," and the Colorado River Bridge at Lee's Ferry. The final eighteen leaves, encompassing about ninety-six photos and postcards (mostly the latter) record numerous scenes in various locations in Mexico. A far-reaching collection of vernacular images and pictorial postcards capturing numerous locations in the American West and Southwest during the mid-1930s.

Price: $850.00