Stover family photograph album : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women adventurers--West (U.S.).

Women adventurers.

Yakima River (Wash.)--Photographs.

Yakima River (Wash.).

Columbia River--Photographs.

Columbia River.

Yakima County (Wash.)--Description and travel.

Yakima County (Wash.).

Genre:

photograph albums.

Albums (Books)

Photographs.

Manuscripts, American -- 20th century.

Manuscripts, English -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Physical Description:

1 item (28 pages, 22 photographs) : paper ; 14 x 18 cm

Production:

Yakima River and Columbia River, Washington, between 1902 and 1907?

Other Title:

Cover title: Photographs

Summary:

Photograph album documenting a trip, by an unnamed woman, a man named Garfield (p. 4), and another man, on the Yakima and Columbia Rivers to "Bro. Vic's camp on the Columbia" (p. 20). Philip R. and Alice Elizabeth (Wilcox) Stover, their daughter Retta, and at least three of their sons (Victor, William, and Garfield) left Ohio and bought homesteads in Sunnyside and Bickleton in Yakima County, Washington, between 1902 and 1904. The woman, who is the writer of the captions, may be either Alta Blanche Hartman (1888-1986), who married Garfield Stover in 1907, or Retta Virginia Stover (1876-1961). The trip takes them past Kennewick (p. 8-9), Pasco (p. 11), and the Wallula Valley (p.13) and Twin Sisters Rock (p. 15, 18, unnamed in the album). At the end is a picture captioned, "My home, homestead on the hills, known as Buckeye Ranch" (p. 25; probably not the Buckeye Ranch of fellow former Ohioan Winfield Scott Stevens in Naches, Washington). The woman may have taken some of the photographs but appears in others. Commercial album with paper covers, printed cover title Photographs, and a partially removed label inside the back cover for Ward's Souvenir Album.

Cited in:

Described in OK, I’ll do it myself: narratives of intrepid women in the American wilderness: selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection, New York (exhibit catalog, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center, 2018), p. 52-53 (no. 49).

Cited as:

Stover Family Photograph Album (Ms. Coll. 1544). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1394136051