Apr 07, 2022 - Sale 2600

Sale 2600 - Lot 259

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(WEST.) Album of western photographs by Taber, Jackson, and more. 99 photographs of various sizes mounted in scrapbook on both sides of 24 card mounts. Oblong folio, contemporary 1/2 calf, worn at extremities and lacking backstrip but sturdy; foxing to the mounts and occasionally the photographs. Various places, circa 1890s

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The album begins with 38 photographs by Taber of San Francisco, almost all of them of California scenes, including views of Pasadena, Los Angeles, San Gabriel, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, San Jose, Monterey, Mariposa Grove, and the Lick Observatory. They are followed by 10 photographs of California orchards, some or all by Reed. Next are two views of San Antonio, TX by Jacobson: the Alamo and Mission Concepcion. At least 3 and probably several others are by William Henry Jackson & Co., showing Royal Gorge, the Garden of the Gods, Eagle River Canyon, and other Colorado scenes.