I W Taber (1830 to 1912)
San Francisco, California
Albumen print
14 x 18 inches including archival frame (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
Provenance: Utah trade
A view of the Devil's Slide in Weber Canyon, Utah, the twin parallel limestone ledges running down the hillside at the center of the frame. A locomotive and cars stand on the track along the foot of the slope with steam venting from the engine, marsh grass and standing water lying between the train and the rock. The negative carries the printed caption at the lower left, A 69. The Devil's Slide, Weber Canon, Utah, with the Taber San Francisco imprint at the lower right. The print is mounted within a wide cream mat in a black archival frame.
Isaiah West Taber (1830 to 1912) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, went to sea on a whaler as a young man, and came to California in the gold rush of 1850. He returned east, worked for a time as a dentist, and opened his first photographic studio in Syracuse, New York, before settling in San Francisco in 1864, where he worked for Bradley and Rulofson and opened his own studio and publishing firm around 1871. He photographed Ulysses S. Grant and other presidents, the Hawaiian royal family, and Queen Victoria at her Diamond Jubilee in 1897, and by the 1890s had opened studios in London and on the Continent. Taber also published views from negatives acquired from Carleton Watkins after Watkins's bankruptcy, issuing them under his own imprint and often retaining the original numbers and titles. His entire stock of glass negatives was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, which ended his career.
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I W Taber (1830 to 1912)
San Francisco, California
Albumen print
14 x 18 inches including archival frame (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
Provenance: Utah trade
A view of the Devil's Slide in Weber Canyon, Utah, the twin parallel limestone ledges running down the hillside at the center of the frame. A locomotive and cars stand on the track along the foot of the slope with steam venting from the engine, marsh grass and standing water lying between the train and the rock. The negative carries the printed caption at the lower left, A 69. The Devil's Slide, Weber Canon, Utah, with the Taber San Francisco imprint at the lower right. The print is mounted within a wide cream mat in a black archival frame.
Isaiah West Taber (1830 to 1912) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, went to sea on a whaler as a young man, and came to California in the gold rush of 1850. He returned east, worked for a time as a dentist, and opened his first photographic studio in Syracuse, New York, before settling in San Francisco in 1864, where he worked for Bradley and Rulofson and opened his own studio and publishing firm around 1871. He photographed Ulysses S. Grant and other presidents, the Hawaiian royal family, and Queen Victoria at her Diamond Jubilee in 1897, and by the 1890s had opened studios in London and on the Continent. Taber also published views from negatives acquired from Carleton Watkins after Watkins's bankruptcy, issuing them under his own imprint and often retaining the original numbers and titles. His entire stock of glass negatives was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, which ended his career.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
