You are here

 

0156
(T. No. 129)
KLVX  STEAMBOATS ON THE COLORADO COLLECTION

NOTE: This collection is for research use only. Copies should be ordered from  the owner institution. Where no such institution is identified, Special Collections will have copies made; however, the user assumes responsibility for publication.

0001   Copy, Arizona Sentinel, September 28, 1978, article on Arizona fleet

Bonelli’s Landing

0002  Bonelli ranch house, photographer Robert Brewster Stanton
0003  Bonelli ranch house
0004  Bonelli ferry ¼ m. west of house, photographer Robert Brewster Stanton

Cerbat, A.T. (see also Mining)

0005  Main Street
0006  Steam arrastra, ca. 1870s

Colorado River and area

0007  Salt mine (original in
0008  Colorado River(original in
0009  Black Canyon
0010  Black Canyon
0011  River view
0012  Black Canyon Reservoir site from Monument Pass, on Nevada side of river,
           6-23-29
0013  Site of Lake Mead

Drawbridges

0014  Metal swing bridge; steamboat Cochan pointed upstream, ore sacks on cargo deck
0015  Partial view
0016  Drawbridge open

Ehrenburg, A.T.

0017  Ehrenburg, 1870
0018  Ehrenburg, 1870, J. Casteneda store at left.
0019  Ehrenburg, 1875, From Vanished Arizona
0020  Ehrenburg, 1875, From Vanished Arizona, another view
0021   Ruins of old city

El Dorado Canyon

0022  Hauling freight (original)
0023  Mill
0024  Mill and river
0025  Mill
0026  Mohave II (mill on left)
0027  Gila

Fort Mohave, A.T.

0028  Buildings, 1871, T.H. O’Sullivan photo
0029  Buildings and soldiers
0030  Buildings, men quarters on left,  1871, T.H. O’Sullivan photo
0031  Center section of buildings, 1871, T.H. O’Sullivan photo
0032   Soldiers

Hoover Dam

0033  Dynamiting side walls
0034  Night scene, early const.
0035  Dynamiting side walls
0036  Early construction
0037  River and bridges before diversion
0038  Dam under construction
0039  Aerial view of dam under construction
0040  Dam under construction
0041  Dam under construction
0042  Dam under construction, nearly completed
0043  Penstock?
0044  Officials, including Elwood Mead
0045  Men on three-tiered equipment
0046  Dam nearly completed
0047  Men pouring cement

Indians

0048  Three male Yuma Indians in native dress
0049  Man, woman, child, Yuma Indians in native dress
0050  Yuma Indian girl
0051  Group of five Yuma women, Reynolds, photographer
0052  Trapper and Indian
0053  Pima Indians, River Gila, copy of water color
0054   Yuma Indian house, Reynolds, photographer
0055  Yuma Indian house, Reynolds, photographer
0056  Yuma Indian house, Reynolds, photographer
0057  Yuma Indian house, Reynolds, photographer
0058  Two Yuma Indians carrying firewood
0059  Indian Children , appear to be outside school
0060  Portrait of Indian man
0061  Colorado River dispensary
0062  Colorado River Indian Reservation Agency building
0063  Unidentified Indians outside wickiups
0064  “An Indian Watching the Arrival of Emigrants”
0065    Yuma Indians at Samkee Laundry

Ives, Report Upon the Colorado…prints from

0066  Chimney Peak—frontspiece
0067  Robinson’s Landing, Mouth of Colorado River—Plate I
0068  Cane Brake Canon from near Camp 16—Plate II
0069  Mojave Canon—Plate III
0070  Purple Hills—fig.3
0071  Pyramid Canon fig.19
0072   Deep Rapid fig.20
0073   Painted Canon fig.22
0074   Mt. Davis—fig.23

La Paz, A.T.

0075  La Paz, ca. 1905, W.G. Keiser, photographer
0076  La Paz in ruins

Mining (see also Cerbat, A.T.)

0077  Mineral Park, ca. 1875
0078  Mineral Park, ca. 1888
0079  Mineral  Park
0080  Group of miners gold panning
0081  Arrastra, Flores Mine, Cerbat, A.T.
0082  Exterior Flores Mill
0083  Interior, Flores Mill
0084  Flores Mine Tunnel

Mormons

0085      Brigham Young’s party in Southern Nevada (trip to Muddy River settlements,
           (1871)
0086    Mormons in Hawaii
0087    LDS Plantation, Hawaii
0088    Salt Lake City street scene
0089    Salt Lake City street scene
0090    Salt Lake City street scene

Port Isabel and upriver

0091    Shipbuilding yard
0092    Slough below shipyard
0093    At low tide
0094    Bore at Horseshow Bend (Retta)
0095    Aerial, shipyard slough, March 22, 1975
0096    Port Famine

Portraits

0097    Barney, James M.
0098    Bonelli, Daniel
0099    Call, Anson
0100    Gass, O.D.
0101    Goldwater, Micheal (sic?)
0102    Hardy, W. H.
0103    Ives, Joseph C.
0104    Johnson, George A.
0105    Mellon, Jack, 1875
0106    Polhamus, Issac, Reynolds, photographer
0107    Polhamus, Issac
0108    Polhamus, Issac with child and dog
0109    Polhamus, Issac
0110    Summerhayes, Martha
0111    Young, Brigham

Prescott, A. T.

0112  First Goldwater store, built 1876

San Francisco, California

0113  Looking south from North point
0114  View, 1877

Prescott, A.T.

0115  Albert S. Reynolds home
0116  L. Zechendorf Store, corner Main and Pennington
0117  Sonoma Wine House, 1880

Vessels  (see also Yuma, Arizona Territory)

Aztec

0118  Swing bridge at Yuma with steam Aztec

Cochan

0119  Cochan by customs house, Yuma
0120  Cochan and barge at Yuma
0121  Cochan tied up to peninsula on river, men on deck
0122    Another view of Cochan
0123  Cochan somewhere between Yuma and Laguna Dam, 1907
0124  Load of firewood on deck
0125  Cochan and barge at Yuma
0126  On river, load of firewood
0127  Loading
0128  Cochan touring barge

Cocopah

0129  Steam Cocopah with barge astern bound upriver
0130  Steamers Cocopah and Mohave

Colorado

0131  Vacate
0132  Colorado II in dry dock at Port Isabel

Explorer

0133  Hull of boar used by Ives in exploration of the Colorado River,
            Sykes photographer

Gila

0134  Gila at foot of Main Street, Yuma, 1898
0135  Gila docked, location unknown
0136  View of Gila on land river’s edge
0137  Gila and barge at Yuma

Iola

0138  Sounding for hard rock
0139  Iola (?)

Mohave I and II

0140  Steamer Mohave I at the levee, Fort Yuma
0141  Mohave II and barge no. 3
0142  Mohave II
0143  Mohave II
0144  Mohave II at Yuma, under repair
0145  Mohave, Capt. Polhamus at El Dorado Canyon
0146  Mohave II at Yuma, Capt. I. Polhamus, May, 1876
0147  passengers on deck
0148  Excursion, May Day

Montana

0149  Montana, Col. Steam Nav. Co.  Walking beam side wheeler. Burned.

Retta  (see also Port Isabel)

0150  Retta at tidal bore at Horseshoe Bend, Gulf of California ( Silas
            Robinson’s landing)

St. Vallier

0151  On Col. River at Needles, 1910.  Note two women
0152  Crew on deck
0153  Upriver
0154  On river (barge on bank)
0155  At Yuma or Topoc.  Skiff and divots over side.
0156  Down river
0157  At Yuma Depot.  Customs house.  Cabin added after stack.

Searchlight

0158  Searchlight at levee, 1906
0159  Upriver (convertible cinder catch on stack)
0160  Colorado River at Yuma (not mosquito cabin.  Prison hill on left side.
            Passengers disembarking on gangway)
0161  Searchlight at Yuma.  (S.P. Hotel behind RR cars.  Screen porch may be
            added seasonally)
0162  Searchlight towing barge.  (Swing bridge, 1906?)
0163  Searchlight with no flared stack.  9May be in process of loss)
0164  Searchlight going through steel swing bridge
0165  Docked on river
0166  Searchlight with Indians on board.
0167  Searchlight stranded in dry river 2 miles below levee break,
            December 14, 1906.
0168  Stranded, 1906
0169  Searchlight pushing barge
0170  On Colorado River
0171  On Colorado River
0172  At Needles ferry (?)
0173  Group shot on Searchlight

Silas J. Lewis barge

0174  Silas J. Lewis of Needles and Steamer Cochan tied up at Army depot at
            Yuma (after 1899)
0175  (Gangplanks from barge to RR cars, Yuma)
0176  (Silas J. Lewis on river near swing bridge)
0177  Silas J. Lewis barge at Red Rock Gate

Steamers, barges working

0178  Colorado River barge, loaded, 1868 (?)
0179  Barge no. 3 going through draw bridge, Yuma, Watkins photo

Yuma, Arizona Territory

0180  View of Ft. Yuma from Yuma City
0181  (Gila at dock.  Storehouse)
0182  Mike Nugent’s residence, 1892
0183  View of Yuma City
0184  Similar view
0185  Wagon shop, 1891
0186  View of Yuma, Reynolds photo
0187  (View of Yuma, waterfront looking south from California side. Steamer in dry
       dock is Mohave II before modifications)
0188  Yuma from Fort
0189   (Yuma, from the hill looking north), Reynolds photo
0190  (Yuma City. S.P. Hotel. First station hotel), Reynolds photo.
0191  (Yuma due west. Pilot Knob on left, settling tank mid picture), Reynolds Photo
0192  Main Street. Yuma Indians, Monagan &Murphy General Mdse.
0193  Yuma Landing. U.S. Quartermaster’s Depot behind tree, 1876. Steamers Gila,
           barge no.3, Cocopah
0194  Steamer on Colorado River at Yuma
0195  (Yuma, A.T. Silas J. Lewis is inboard of Cochan. Searchlight is outboard from St.
            Vallier)
0196  L-R Mohave II, Gila and a typical barge, Yuma after 1877
0197  Steamer Gila and barges of the Col. Navig. Co. in front of the office.
0198  SPRR vessel (copy of  art work)
0199  J.R. Young’s ferry
0200  H.S. Fitzgerald & Co., Central Merchandise, Yuma (?), 1875
0201   (waterfront with PR bridge)
0202  First train into Arizona, 1877, completing bridge at Yuma
0203   Yuma RR station
0204   SPRR Engine
0205   SPRR Engine (similar view)
0206   SPRR Engine

Fort  Yuma, A.T.

0207  Fort Yuma/SPRR Bridge over Col. River, 1881
0208  U.S. Quartermaster’s Depot opp. Fort Yuma, looking downstream
0209  Ferry and river gap at Fort Yuma

Yuma  Prison, Yuma  , A.T.

0210   Building new wall at Yuma Terr. Prison, Reynolds photo
0211   Building new wall
0212   Yuma Terr. Prison
0213 Another view of prison

Unidentified locations, objects, miscellaneous

0214  People in front of unidentified store and post office
0215  Children on horseback pulling Balsz’s wagon, in front of store, Yuma?
0216  Yuma Liquor Co. with men on horseback
0217  Steam vessel, may be Newburn
0218  Vessel, may be Hercules
0219  Unidentified people on vessel
0220  David Neahr store, Yuma, Arizona
0221  Fort Bowie
0222  (Little Colorado?)
0223  (Enlargement of Cochan?)

Updated: Monday, 17-Dec-2012 10:54:49 PST
Content Provider: Kathy War
Page Editor: Thomas Sommer