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Glass negatives

 Subject
Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms

Found in 540 Collections and/or Records:

Funeral display, 2017 April 29

 Item
Identifier: MSS 8845 Series 9 Sub-Series Sub- 7 Item p054
Dates: Digitized: 2017 April 29
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Harold B. Lee Library History in Your Attic collection / Tropic, Utah, scanning event / Niemann family photographs

George Edward Anderson glass plate negatives, 1860-1928

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 3289 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Includes eighty-three gelatin glass plate negatives taken by George Edward Anderson. The majority of these photographs are of railroads being built and the reconstruction of bridges in Utah and Colorado.

Dates: 1860-1928
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / James L. Ozment collection of George Edward Anderson photographs

[Gin poles, Meadow Lake Dam construction], circa 1898-1902

 Item — Box 1: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197225508735], Box: 1
Identifier: MSS P 585 Series 1 Item 147
Scope and Contents

There is a pole with many cables stemming from it, scaffolding on the bottom right, and a rocky hill in the background.

Dates: circa 1898-1902
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Edith Irvine photographs and other material / Edith Irvine photographs

[Gin poles, Meadow Lake Dam construction], circa 1898-1902

 Item — Box 1: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197225508735], Box: 1
Identifier: MSS P 585 Series 1 Item 148
Scope and Contents

There are poles with many cables stemming from them and tracks on the right side. A man carrying a pole in the middle; a rocky hill and a few trees in the background.

Dates: circa 1898-1902
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Edith Irvine photographs and other material / Edith Irvine photographs

[Gin poles, Meadow Lake Dam construction], circa 1898-1902

 Item — Box 1: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197225508735], Box: 1
Identifier: MSS P 585 Series 1 Item 149
Scope and Contents

There is a pole with cables stemming from it. A track weaves around the bottom of the photograph with men at the end of it moving a large boulder. A rocky hill with a few trees on the top is in the background.

Dates: circa 1898-1902
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Edith Irvine photographs and other material / Edith Irvine photographs

[Gin poles, Meadow Lake Dam construction], circa 1898-1902

 Item — Box 1: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197225508735], Box: 1
Identifier: MSS P 585 Series 1 Item 150
Scope and Contents

Men are on the top of tracks, which go over a rocky ridge to the right. In the background are trees and a pole, towards the right, with many cables stemming from it.

Dates: circa 1898-1902
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Edith Irvine photographs and other material / Edith Irvine photographs

Glass plate negative of a fawn in a sagebrush in Gardiner, Montana, 1887

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197239252221], item: 30
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 30
Scope and Contents

New fawn (mule deer with spots still present) in sagebrush, probably in Gardiner area.

Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

Glass plate negative of a group of women and children looking east toward Rattlesnake Butte, 1887

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197239252221], item: 31
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 31
Scope and Contents

Group of children with women (presumably their mothers and/or caretakers) and definitely looking east across the flats east of Gardner River to Rattlesnake Butte, identifiable in background.

Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

Glass plate negative of a group of women and children on west bank of Gardner River, 1887

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239252205], item: 3
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 3
Scope and Contents A much clearer and generally better version #31: (#31: Group photo of children with women (presumably their mothers and/or caretakers) and definitely looking east across the flats east of Gardner River to Rattlesnake Butte, (identifiable in backgroound)). The children here are neatly posed and quiet; one of the women is the only adult in the photo and is wearing a bonnet; and almost everyone is wearing a hat and apparently posing on the west bank of the Gardner River looking toward the...
Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

Glass plate negative of a group of women and children on west bank of Gardner River, 1887

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239252205], item: 4
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 4
Scope and Contents

A clearer and quieter version of #31: (#31: Group photo of children with women (presumably their mothers and/or caretakers) and definitely looking east across the flats east of Gardner River to Rattlesnake Butte, (identifiable in the background).

All three adult ladies are present, two of them wearing hats. The children are in slightly different positions, probably based upon their playing.

Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

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