Meigs, Stanley V.:

$3,000 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

[ANNOTATED VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM BELONGING TO RAILROAD ENGINEER STANLEY V. MEIGS, FEATURING SCENES IN A UTAH GOLD MINING CAMP AND WITH A COLORADO RAILROAD SURVEYING ... The personal annotated vernacular photograph album of Stanley V. Meigs, a railroad engineer based in Pueblo, Colorado. The album is peppered with some family photographs, including Meigs and a baby, but is mostly concerned with mining and engineering ventures in Utah and Colorado in 1908 or earlier.The album opens in Gold Springs, Utah, with several images of the settlement, the surrounding mountains, some interiors, four pages of family photographs, and a small two-panel elevated panoramic image of the town. Interspersed with the Gold Springs images are a few from Fay, Nevada, including the largest image in the album, featuring "Four Generations" of a Native American family. Meigs was evidently in Gold Springs to work for or visit the Buck Mountain Gold Mining Company, whose buildings and claims are featured in photographs here. The Jennie Mill is also captured in a handful of images, including the "Jennie Hoisting and Air Plants," the "Interior Jennie Mill - The Stamps and Amalgam Plates," and the "Jennie Shaft."Meigs includes a handful of casual photographs of Salt Lake City before the images shift to Colorado. The main reason for Meigs' presence in Colorado seems to be as an observer or participant on the Kansas-Colorado Railway surveying team. Various photographs are captioned "Kansas-Colorado Railr

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