Robert Ellison Western photographs
Scope and Contents
Collection includes two hundred and thirty photographs, including oversize images, one tintype, and a Brady photograph, with images of the oil industry and oil fields, landscapes of the West, G. A. Custer, and Ellison family and friends; stereographs of Indian wars, Wyoming; various western personalities and places; and postcards. Also includes four photographs and a postcard of Edward Copely and family. Also a picture of the printing shop at the "Old Nez Pierce Mission", and a postcard of the Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Dates
- approximately 1880-1949
Creator
- Ellison, Robert Spurrier (Person)
- Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896 (photographer, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Box 10 Condition restricted; permission to use items must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research. Items kept in cold storage; access requires 24 hours advance notice.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Robert Ellison Western photographs must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Spurrier Ellison (1875-1947) was a prominent Colorado lawyer, businessman, politician, historian and author.
Extent
1 oversize box
10 boxes (6.5 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased; Fred Rosenstock.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated; Edward Copely family.
Appraisal
Photographs (Photograph Archives).
- Agricultural exhibitions -- Wyoming
- Boy Scouts of America
- Bridger, Jim, 1804-1881 -- Photographs
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- Photographs
- California
- Carson, Kit, 1809-1868 -- Photographs
- Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.)
- Cheyenne Indians
- Colorado
- Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 -- Photographs
- Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 -- Pictorial works
- Dull Knife Battle, Wyo., 1876
- Fort Laramie (Wyo. : Fort)
- Fort Reno (Wyo.)
- Grant, Ulysses S., 1852-1929 -- Photographs
- Gros Ventre Slide Geological Area (Wyo.)
- Idaho
- Images
- Independence Rock (Wyo.)
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)
- Material Types
- Mexico
- Montana
- Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
- New Mexico
- Oil industries
- Photographs
- Postcards
- Salt Lake City (Utah)
- Shaanxi Sheng (China)
- Smet, Pierre-Jean de, 1801-1873 -- Photographs
- South Dakota
- Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 -- Photographs
- Teton Range (Wyo. and Idaho)
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia City (Mont.)
- Wyoming
- Yellowstone National Park
- Zuni Indian Reservation (N.M.)
- Title
- Register of Robert Ellison Western photographs
- Author
- Rose Frank
- Date
- 2011 November 23
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
- Box: 6 (Graphic Materials)
- Box: 5 (Graphic Materials)
- oversize: 10 (Graphic Materials)
- Box: 1 (Graphic Materials)
- Box: 7 (Graphic Materials)
- Box: 3 (Graphic Materials)
- Box: 2 (Graphic Materials)
- Box: 4 (Graphic Materials)
- Box: 11 (Graphic Materials)
- Box: 8 (Graphic Materials)
- Box: 9 (Graphic Materials)
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States