[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]

Price: $4,800.00

Softcover. Oblong folio. Flexible leather over paper boards, stamped with "Photographs" in gilt on front wrap. Wear at the edges of the wrappers, spine mostly eroded away, but sound and internally about fine. Album contains approximately 175 captioned photographs of a trip by seven employees (named on the "title page," with Dick identified as photographer) of the Lee Higginson & Co. investment banking firm (of Boston, Chicago, and New York) to Montana and Washington state. The album seems to be something of a combination of a sightseeing tour and an inventory of properties that the firm either held or were interested in acquiring in the West. Higginson & Co., aligned with other firms like J.P. Morgan, took over and consolidated many small power generation companies in the West, forming The Montana Power Company. The photographs are very nicely composed and all identified, illustrating mines, powerhouses, railways, dams, and other industrial sites from Portland to Tacoma, Seattle, Butte, Billings, Rainbow and Crooked Falls on the Missouri River, Mad River, etc. Interspersed are many vernacular photos of local interest: a horse stampede in Bozeman, a futuristic "gasoline railway engine," an overturned and wrecked train, Native Americans, street cars, etc., but probably the majority are of commercial investment properties. A generous selection of images of power generation in the West.

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Item #390957 [Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]. Fairman R. DICK.
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]
[Photo Album]: Trip to Pacific Coast. Summer 1909. [California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and Montana]