Scope and Content Note
This album consists of 218 collodio-chloride photographic prints documenting a trip from Tennessee through Louisiana and Texas into Mexico. Among the subjects depicted are a bull fight, significant structures, and scenic landscapes.
Dates
- Creation: 1895
Creator
- Raymond & Whitcomb (Organization)
Language of Materials
Material in English
Access Restrictions
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Copyright
Arizona State University does not own the copyright to this collection. We recognize that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.
Historical Note
Walter Raymond and Irvine Whitcomb founded the Raymond & Whitcomb travel agency in Boston in 1879. The company arranged the first through train to California in 1881 and introduced such innovations as transcontinental sleeping and dining cars. They later expanded their service to Europe and pioneered the cruise with a voyage to the Far East in 1895. The company continued operating well into the 20th century.
Full extent
1 Box(es)
Full extent
1.17 Linear Feet
Abstract
This album consists of 218 collodio-chloride photographic prints documenting a trip from Tennessee through Louisiana and Texas into Mexico. Among the subjects depicted are a bull fight, significant structures, and scenic landscapes.
Arrangement
This collection consists of one box.
Provenance
Archives and Special Collections purchased this photograph album (Accession #1993-00885).
Cultural context
Geographic
- Aguascalientes (Mexico) -- Photographs
- Chattanooga (Tenn.) -- Photographs
- Galveston (Tex.) -- Photographs
- Guadalajara (Mexico) -- Photographs
- Guanajuato (Mexico) -- Photographs
- Houston (Tex.) -- Photographs
- Mexico City (Mexico) -- Photographs
- New Orleans (La.) -- Photographs.
- San Antonio (Tex.) -- Photographs
- San Luis Potosí (Mexico) -- Photographs
- Tierra Caliente (Mexico : Region) -- Photographs
- Torreón (Coahuila, Mexico) -- Photographs
Topical
- Title
- Raymond & Whitcomb Photograph Album
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Richard Pearce-Moses.
- Date
- 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding guide encoded in English.
Repository details
Part of the Greater Arizona Collection Repository
Contact
Arizona State UniversityP.O. Box 871006
Tempe AZ 85287-1006 United States
(480) 965-4932
archives@asu.edu