PBA Galleries

16 images are approx. 25.5x33 cm (10x13") or reverse; 3 are approx. 16x22.4 cm (6¼x8¾") or reverse. On original cardstock mounts measuring 36x45 cm (14¼x17¾"), with ruled borders and watercolor floral decorations in each corner. All set loose in original morocco-backed folder lettered in gilt.

Superb selection of original photographs by William Henry Jackson of spectacular western scenery, ranging from the Yellowstone geysers to the adobe houses of Santa Fe, with such iconic views as his Mount of the Holy Cross, the Garden of the Gods and Pike's Peak, the Grand Canon of the Colorado, and others. The collection was purchased in the 19th century by members of the well-to-do Swiss Streuli family when on holiday in the wilds of the American West. It has remained till now in that family, notable for their silk-based textile fortune and splendid dwelling on the shores of Lake Horgen.

The images include: Mount of the Holy Cross; Garden of the Gods and Pike’s Peak; untitled view of a canyon with a 3-car train on tracks; Boulder Falls; Keppler’s Cascade; Castle Gate Price Canon Utah; two examples of the same untitled view of waterfall (1 of them lightly foxed, the other without border); Excelsior Geyser and Prismatic Springs, Midway Basin; Canon of Diamond River Arizona; Snowy Range from Bellevue; Santa Fe, From the College; Hot Springs, Queen’s Laundry; Mammoth Hot Springs & Formations (two different examples, each one of the smaller images); Manitou; Grand Canon of the Colorado; The Grand Teton (smaller image); Upper Geyser Basin from the Crater of Old Faithful.