Western Stereo-Views Collection
Abstract
This collection consists of original stereo-views (two identical images printed side by side that appear three-dimensional when placed in a stereoscopic viewer) that were taken of sights along the Union Pacific Railroad as well as general views of Ogden, Utah. Many photographers are included in this collection such as A.J. Russell, Charles Bierstadt, William Henry Jackson, C. W. Carter, and Charles Russell Savage.
E &H.T. Anthony and Co.
E. & H. T. Anthony & Company was the largest supplier and distributors of photographic supplies in the United States during the 19th century. It was incorporated in 1877 with Edward Anthony as President, and with brothers Henry T. Anthony and V. M. Wilcox as vice presidents.
C.W. Carter
C.W. Carter grew up in England and after converting to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, immigrated to the United States. Carter and his wife Sarah reached Salt Lake City in 1864 where he continued the photographic practice he began in England. Carter initially worked for C.R. Savage before starting his own studio in 1867. Over the years Carter partnered with a number of photographers including J.B. Silvis, C.W. Symons and Mikkael Faldmo. In 1906 he sold his collection of negatives to the Salt Lake City Bureau of Information for $400.
William Henry Jackson
William Henry Jackson began his photographic career in Omaha, Nebraska in 1867. After briefly working for another photographer, he and his brother purchased a studio. Jackson first made a name for himself when he and his assistant Arundel Hull traveled along the newly completed Union Pacific Railroad photographing the line, the railroad towns, and scenic wonders in 1868 and 1869. Between 1870 and 1879 he was the photographer in charge for the Hayden Survey. He was the first photographer to reach Yellowstone National Park and his images played a part in the recognition of that area for special protection. In 1879 Jackson opened a studio in Denver, Colorado and in 1881 he began work for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. In 1892 he incorporated the W.H. Jackson Photography & Publishing company and traveled throughout the world as a photographer. In 1897 he moved to Detroit where the Detroit Publishing Company used his images as postcards. In 1924 the company went bankrupt and Jackson moved to Washington D.C. to publish his memoirs and paint historic western scenes.
A.J. Russell
A.J. Russell (1829-1902) grew up in New York and worked as a painter and a teacher before moving to New York City in 1859 to learn the new art of photography. During the civil war he served as a military railroad photographer for the Union Army. After the war he returned to New York City but in 1868 he was hired by the Union Pacific Railroad to photograph the building of the transcontinental railroad. Between 1868 and 1870 he took over 800 glass-plate negatives and thousands of stereoview negatives. In 1870 Russell returned to New York City where he spent the rest of his career working as an artist and photographer for Leslie's Illustrated.
Charles Russell Savage
Charles R. Savage is perhaps best known for shooting the Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869. His photographic trips, however, took him throughout the West from the 1860s to the 1890s and his images were sold across the United States and reproduced in Eastern periodicals. A convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he grew up in Southampton, England and moved to New York City in 1855. He slowly mastered the new medium of photography and by the time he and his young family made their way to Utah in 1860 he was ready to set up a permanent studio. Savage was a savvy businessman whose profits from a successful art/photography store funded his various photographic endeavors. In Utah he was known not only as a photographer but also as a philanthropist and passionate defender of the Mormon Church. He would eventually enter into polygamist unions with four women.
Keystone View Company
The Keystone View Company was a major distributor of stereographic images, and was located in Meadville, Pennsylvania. From 1892 through 1963 Keystone produced and distributed both educational and comic/sentimental stereoviews, and stereoscopes. By 1905 it was the world's largest stereographic company.
Dates
- Creation: 1880 - 1900
Extent
1 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
BOX 1
FD 1 E & H.T. Anthony and Co. “Views Along the Line of the Pacific Rail Road”
Item 1 No. 7124 Bridge over the Weber River. Ogden in the distance.
Item 2 No. 7131 Mount Anthony-Summit of the Wahsatch Mts. Near Devil’s Gate
Item 3 No. 7143 Steamboat Bluff, 800 ft. high. Echo Canyon
Item 4 No. 7127 Looking down at Devil’s Gate Bridge, the high peaks of the Wasatch in the distance
FD 2 Charles Bierstadt, Photographer
Item 1 No. 1258 Ogden Canon, Utah
Item 2 No. 1258 Ogden Canon, Utah
Item 3 No. 1260 Ogden Canon, Utah
Item 3a No. 1261 View from Ogden Canon
Item 4 No. 1262 View from Ogden Canon, Utah
Item 5 No. 1262 View from Ogden Canon, Utah
Item 6 No. 1273 Mormon Fortifications, Echo Canon, Utah
FD 3 C. W. Carter, “Utah by C. W. Carter”
Item 1 1000 Mile Tree
Item 2 Devil’s Slide, Weber
Item 3 Episcopal Church, Ogden
FD 4 C. W. Cater “Gems of Utah Scenery”
Item 1 No. 6 Devil’s Gate Bridge, Weber Canyon
Item 2 Small Tunnel- Weber Canon
FD 5 C. W. Cater, “Stereoscopic Gems of Utah Scenery”
Item 1 Needle Rocks on Line of U.P.R.R.
Item 2 Needle Rocks on Line of U.P.R.R.
Item 3 Pulpit Rock, Mouth of Echo Canyon
FD 6 The Johnson Co. “Johnson’s Stereo Views of Everything”
Item 1 No. 1460 A Sunset on the Great Salt Lake
Item 2 Mouth of Ogden Canyon
Item 3 Winslow’s Hotel in Ogden Canyon
FD 7 Jackson Bros., “Scenery of the Union Pacific Railroad”
Item 1 No. 106 Tower on Castle Rock
Item 2 No. 107 Great Eastern Echo Canon
Item 3 No. 127 Tower on Castle Rock
FD 8 William A. Jackson, “Scenery of the Union Pacific Railroad”
Item 1 No. 82 Devil’s Gate Bridge
Item 2 No. 88 Sixth Crossing, Webber River
Item 3 No. 89 West from Tunnel No. 4, Weber Canon
Item 4 No. 93 Weber Canon
Item 5 No. 98 1000 Mile Tree, Weber Canon
Item 6 No. 128 Castle Rock, Echo Canon
Item 7 No. 4330 Castle Gate, Price Canon, Utah
FD 9 Keystone View Company
Item 1 No. 2459 Ogden and Wasatch Mountains, Utah
Item 2 No. 2459 Ogden and Wasatch Mountains, Utah
Item 3 No. 2459 Ogden and Wasatch Mountains, Utah
Item 4 No. 2459 Ogden and Wasatch Mountains, Utah
Item 5 No. 9584 A View of the Wasatch Mountains from Ogden, Utah
Item 6 No. 9585 A View of the Wasatch Mountains from Ogden, Utah
Item 7 No. 37361 Boulder Dam, the Highest in the World, in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River
FD 10 B.W. Kilburn
Item 1 No. 3237 1000 Mile Tree, Weber Canyon, Utah
Item 2 No. 3242 View from Weber Canyon, Utah
Item 3 No. 16121 General view of Ogden and Wasatch Mts.
FD 11 G. M. Manning, “Union Pacific R.R.”
Item 1 No. 111 Pulpit and Hanging Rocks, mouth of Echo Canyon
FD 12 A. J. Russell, “Union Pacific Railroad Views”
Item 1 No. 93 Lion Rock, Echo Canyon
Item 2 No. 381 Looking down Weber, from Stone Quarry
FD 13 Charles Russell Savage, “Union Pacific Railroad”
Item 1 Devil’s Gate Bridge-From Below
Item 2 Devil’s Gate Bridge and Hanging Rock
Item 3 Finger Rock, near Tunnel 3, Weber Canon
Item 4 Hardscrabble Canon, near Weber Station, No. 1
Item 5 Monument Rock, Echo Canon
Item 6 Pulpit Rock, with Railroad Track
Item 7 Scene in Echo Canon
Item 8 Tunnel No. 3 and Weber River
Item 9 Conglomerate Rocks, mouth of Echo
FD 14 Charles Russell Savage, “Utah”
Item 1 Black Rock in the Great Salt Lake
FD 15 Charles Russell Savage, “Views of the Great West”
Item 1 Ogden, Utah
Item 2 Pulpit Rock
FD 16 Charles Russell Savage
Item 1 Logan Canon
Item 2 Ogden Canon
Item 3 Weber Canon, U.P.R.R. Bridge
FD 17 Savage and Ottinger “Scenes on the U.P.R.R.”
Item 1 No. 105 Devil’s Gate
Item 2 Tunnel No. 4, Weber Canon
Item 3 Tunnel No. 4, Weber Canon
Item 4 Weber Canon, Repairing Tracks
FD 18 O.C. Smith, “The Wonderful Scenery of the Rocky Mountains”
Item 1 No. 324 Witches Rock, with group, Echo City
Item 2 No. 447 Coalville, Utah
Item 3 No. 624 Devil’s Gate, Weber Kanyon, Utah
Item 4 No. 625 Above Devil’s Gate, Weber Kanyon, Utah
FD 19 Milan P. Warner
Item 1 Cloud Effect, Ogden City
FD 20 Watkins, “Union Pacific R.R.”
Item 1 No. 2757 1000 mile Tree, Weber Canyon, Utah
FD 21 Chas. Weitfle
Item 1 No. 460 Cascade and Falls, Ogden Canon, Utah
Item 2 No. 426 Tunnel No. 4- Weber Canon
Item 3 No. 425 Tunnel No. 3- Weber Canon (dist. View)
Item 4 No. 401 Pulpit Rock, Echo Canon
Item 5 No. 402 Witch Rocks, Echo Canon
Item 6 No. 419 The heights of Weber Canon
Item 7 No.431 Profile Rock, near Echo, U.P.R.R.
FD 22 Whitaker
Item 1 After wind storm, Ogden Utah April 1899
Item 2 Birches, Ogden Canon
FD 23 American Scenery
Item 1 Ogden City, Utah
Item 2 No. 631 Column Rock, Wahsatch Mountain, Utah, Photographed by C.L. Pond
FD 24 American Views
Item 1 R.R. Bridge, Weber Canyon, Pacific Railroad
Item 2 R.R. Bridge, Weber Canyon, Pacific Railroad
Item 3 Witch Rocks near Echo City, Utah
FD 25 Popular Series
Item 1 Weber River, Pacific Railroad
FD 26 Unknown Photographers
Item 1 No. 150 Ogden Canon, Utah
Item 2 No. 387 Weber Canon, Utah
Item 3 No. 440 Looking across Weber at 3,000 feet Elevation
Item 4 No. 441 Devil’s Gate from the South High Peaks of the Wahsatch in the distance, Union Pacific Railroad
FD 27 Unknown Photographers
Item 1 Horseshoe Bend, Weber Canon, Utah
Item 2 Irrigation Canal near Mouth of Weber Canyon, Utah
Item 3 Weber Canon, Utah near Devil’s Gate
Item 4 Train in Echo Canyon, Union Pacific Railroad
FD 28 J.O. Stephens
Item 1 City hall, Ogden, Utah
FD 29 J.B. Silvis
Item 1 Views of the Pacific Railroad, Rocky Mountain Scenery
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the WSU Stewart Library Special Collections Repository