Offered is a nice group
of nine (9) circa 1890s original, mounted photographs of places and scenes in
the Big Basin area of Wyoming. The sepia toned photos measure 7 ½” x 4 ½” and
are on stiff, cream-colored mounts measuring 8” x 10”. Each of the images are
identified in period ink on the back of the mount” “Gould Family, Basin City on Greybull River” [shows a family of six
sitting outside of their log house]; “Woodford
Family / Beaver Creek / Big Horn Basin” [shows three men and a woman on
horseback and two standing men behind a fenced in one and one-half story log
house]; “Cabin in Big Horn Mountains. /
Snowed in here for 3 days” [shows a man and his horse by a crude log
cabin with provisions, rifle, axe, frying pan, and blankets piled up outside
the open cabin door]; “Clear Creek
Canon / near Buffalo, Wyo”; “Upper
Clear Creek Canon”; “Piney
Canon” [shows six women and two men among the boulders along a
fast-flowing creek or river]; “Piney
Canon”; “Big Horn Mts. / Snow
Storm in August”; and “Big
Goose Creek / Big Horn Mts”. One of the photographs has a red ink stamp
on the back of the mount, “Office of /
W. E. M. Stewart, B.D. M.D., / Douglas, Wyo…” Stewart is listed in a
Home Missionary Society Report in Douglas Wyoming in1900. There is no
indication of the photographer, the images have the look and feel of a
professional. One view has several small losses of surface from scratches; all
the other photographs are in fine condition, sharp and clear with good
contrast. Sold as a lot of nine photographs only.