A.J. Russell1869 (?, album)
The last rail; or, Joining the U.P.and C.P.R.R.'s.
[Geo. W. Williams & Co.'s Carolina fertilizer, with twenty photographic views from the line of the Union Pacific Railroad]
Album page, with tipped in albumen print
24 x 27 cm (album)
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryYale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Call number: WA Photos 106, Image ID Number: 1073542
Photographs of the west are reduced images from Andrew J. Russell's The Great West Illustrated along with advertisements for the products of the George W. Williams Company.
Viewbook of mounted photographic prints compiled by the George W. Williams & Company, fertilizer merchants, ca. 1869. A photographic print appears on the recto of each mount that depicts an advertisement for Carolina Fertilizer with a letterpress testimonial.
Album includes 41 photographic plates.
LL/38185