General photographs

File — Box: 1, Folder: 1

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Scope and Contents

Photograph number 1: 'Sierra Nevada Mountains., Feather River April 30, 1850'
Photograph number 2: 'Wagon Hill to Browns Hole, Utah'
Photograph number 3: 'Porter's Rock, on the Prairie Base of Black Hills'
Photograph number 4: {Title Page} California Expedition Journal, Laramie Peak, it can be seen 100 miles
Photograph number 5: 'Scott's Bluff and Chimney Rock'
Photograph number 6: 'Pawnee Village on the Platte, destroyed by Sioux 1836'
Photograph number 7: [Sketch Map]
Photograph number 8: [Sketch Map]
Photograph number 9: unidentified, probably a mountain pass
Photograph number 10: 'Independence Rock' [With Lorton's sketches of many emigrant names on the face, including, in the upper right corner, his own W.B. Lorton, and a figure of a man atop the Rock at upper left]
Photograph number 11: 'Devil's Gate, June 16, 1849'
Photograph number 12: South Pass, July 26, 1849, Eastern Lamp Bluffs, Windriver Chain, of 'Am. Alps.'
Photograph number 13: 'Rocks on Red Fork, California'
Photograph number 14: 'California journal from Salt Lake vol. III 1849. Horse Spring ..Cut-Off.'
Photograph number 15: 'Wasatch Mountain, Novemeber, 6 1849, Cave at Can Kanyon' [and more, but illegible]
Photograph number 16: 'Great Gulf of Awful Chasm at Attempted Pass 1,000 feet high'
Photograph number 17: 'On Table Land Windblown Region' [various cacti sketches, etc.]
Photograph number 18: "San Gabriel Mission, January, 17 1850"
Photograph number 19: Writing on the back indicates this is a carte-de-visite of "Porter Rockwell, Chief of Danites", however this is NOT Orrin Porter Rockwell. It is probably of another man labeled a "Danite" in early Mormon history, possible Bill Hickman.
Photograph number 20: Dale Morgan with Bennion Sword USHS August 1968. Photo by Everett Cooley.

Dates

circa 1850-1968

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