Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(COLORADO.) Mellen, George E.; photographer. No. 101. Denver to Ogden. Art Keepsakes. Union Pacific Railway. 6 mounted albumen cabinet card photographs. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches), publisher's lettered stiff wrappers, minor wear, with ribbon stitching. Colorado Springs: Rocky Mountain View Company, circa 1888
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In 1888, prior to his association with William H. Jackson, Mellen issued these small albums of cabinet card images from his short-lived studio in Colorado Springs as railroad souvenirs. These "Art Keepsakes" are not often seen in their original stiff wrappers. This issue includes the following images: Dale Creek Bridge, Up the Weber from Pulpit Rock, untitled image of needle-like rock formations, untitled image of railroad tracks running though a mountain pass next to a river, Devil's Slide [in] Weber Canyon, Tunnel No. 3 [in] Weber Canyon. No other copies of this issue traced.