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Photograph albums and photographic prints of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico
Title
[Photograph albums and photographic prints of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico].
Production
[United States, Mexico, and Italy], [approximately 1896-1915]
Physical Description
0.63 linear feet (3 boxes)
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Place of creation supplied by cataloger.
Date of creation supplied by cataloger.
Many photographic prints in the collection are damaged with small portions missing due to consumption by rodents.
Inscriptions in English.
Provenance
Purchased from James Arsenault & Company on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2021.
Organization
Photograph album, 1900, in Box 1. Photograph album, approximately 1910, in Box 2. Photographic prints, approximately 1896-1915, in Box 3.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Jesse "Jack" Harrison Holmes, Jr. (1879-1961) and David Hull Holmes (1874-1967) were partners in the Holmes and Holmes architectural firm at Tucson, Arizona, from 1905 to 1912. They were sons of Jesse Harrison Holmes (1843-1924) and Clara B. Holmes (1854-1929) and brothers of Horace Burbank Holmes (1877-1917).
Summary
Collection consists of two photograph albums and photographic prints that document the travel, family, and friends of Jesse "Jack" H. Holmes, Jr., at Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico, approximately 1896-1915.
A photograph album with a printed title page, "A Trip to California, Nov. 23rd to Dec. 11th 1900, Snap-Shots Along the Way," comprises 69 hand-tinted photographs measuring 9 x 9 centimeters that document a trip by Jesse "Jack" H. Holmes, Jr., and his parents Clara Holmes and Jesse H. Holmes, Sr., from Santa Fe, New Mexico, through Arizona to California and returning through Albuquerque, New Mexico. Views of New Mexico include sites at Santa Fe, including the recently completed territorial capitol building (later known as the Bataan Memorial Building) and state prison, and the San Felipe de Neri Church at Albuquerque. Photographs of sites in Arizona include railroad depots at Flagstaff and Peach Springs with Hualapai people at the latter, and views at Tucson that include Tohono O’odham encampments, Fort Lowell, the Owls Club, and buildings at the University of Arizona, as well as images of Wilcox and Yuma. Images of California locations include Colton, Indio, Lancaster, the Mount Lowe Railway on Echo Mountain and Mount Lowe, Ontario, Pasadena, Redlands including the home of Albert K. Smiley and the Smiley Heights neighborhood as well as home of Henry Fisher, Santa Barbara including the Arlington Hotel and Santa Barbara Mission, Santa Cruz, and Santa Monica. The album includes portraits of the parents. The final page of the album includes the itinerary of places visited during the trip.
A photograph album with an inscription on the first page, "J. H. Holmes, Jr., Boulder, Colo.," consists of 192 photographs measuring 21 x 13 centimeters and smaller created by Jesse "Jack" Harrison Holmes, Jr., as well as commercial photographs created by Charles B. Waite and others that chiefly document architectural sites at Tucson, Arizona, and throughout Mexico, approximately 1910. The album opens with informal portraits of two couples, likely David Hull Holmes and his wife Helen Pierce Holmes and Horace Burbank Holmes and his wife Cecil W. Mill Holmes (later Caley) at the San Xavier del Bac Mission at Tucson. The bulk of photographs in the album document architectural views and street scenes in Mexico at Coyoacán, Cuernavaca, Guadalupe Bravos, Mexico City, Puebla de Zaragoza, Tepotzotlán, and Veracruz. A group of photographs at the end of the album documents houses designed by the Holmes and Holmes architectural firm and constructed at Tucson, including the homes of Annie Hull Neal Cheyney and Levi Howell Manning (1864-1935) designed by Henry Trost. A single photograph created by the Detroit Photographic Company documents a private dining room at the Hotel El Tovar at the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Unmounted photographs in the collection chiefly document travel by and activities of Jesse "Jack" Harrison Holmes, Jr., his family, and friends, approximately 1896-1915. Many of the 175 photographic prints are cyanotypes. The prints measure 27 x 18 centimeters and smaller, with most 6 x 9 centimeters. Approximately half the photographs duplicate images mounted in the albums. The other photographic prints document the friends of Jesse "Jack" Harrison Holmes, Jr., during his late adolescence and attendance at the University of Colorado at Boulder, approximately 1900-1905. Photographs likely created in Colorado include images of camping, fencing, golfing, horseback-riding, hunting, and rock climbing. Includes prints and a copy negative of a view of Taos, New Mexico, as well as photographs of Mission San Xavier del Bac at Tucson, Arizona. Also includes photographs of sites in Italy including the Arch of Constantine and Temple of Castor and Pollux at Rome as well as Palazzo Ducale on the Piazza San Marco at Venice.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 27, 2021
References
Jesse Harrison Holmes, Photograph Albums and Photographic Prints of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Jesse Harrison Holmes, Photograph Albums and Photographic Prints of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
Gelatin silver prints.
Photograph albums.
Photographs.
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