• Unknown (photographer)
• Seneca Ray Stoddard (photographer)
• Pierre Charles L'Enfant (architect)
• Henry Van Brunt (architect)
• Abel C. Martin (role unspecified)
• Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad Company (role unspecified)
• Andrew Hamilton (role unspecified)
• Governor John Haldimand (role unspecified)
• Chilion Jones (role unspecified)
• Nicholas Biddle (role unspecified)
• Alfred B. Mullett (role unspecified)
• Thomas William Fuller (architect)
• Charles Bulfinch (role unspecified)
• George Benson Hall (role unspecified)
• William Ware (role unspecified)
• Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of Dufferin and Ava (role unspecified)
• Peter Harrison (role unspecified)
• Thomas Dawes (role unspecified)
• Robert Stephenson (role unspecified)
• Isaiah Rogers (role unspecified)
• Lord John George Lambton Durham (role unspecified)
• Robert Smith (role unspecified)
• William Price (role unspecified)
• Robert Mills (role unspecified)
• Walter Chesterton (role unspecified)
• James O'Donnell (architect)
• Quebec Railway Light & Power Co. (role unspecified)
• Governor Francis Bernard (role unspecified)
• Charles E. Brigham (role unspecified)
• Colonel Gother Mann (role unspecified)
• Judge Porter (role unspecified)
• Thomas Stent (role unspecified)
• Holland and Twiss (role unspecified)
• Colonel Élias-Walker Durnford (role unspecified)
• Richard Bond (role unspecified)
• Thomas Ustick Walter (role unspecified)
• Lieutenant Colonel John By (engineer)
• Charles Ellet Jr. (role unspecified)
• George Washington (role unspecified)
• John Augustus Roebling (engineer)
• Stephen Hallet (role unspecified)
• Pierre Charles L'Enfant (urban planner)
• Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada (client)
• Prospect Park Company (role unspecified)
• Gridley James Fox Bryant (architect)
• George Hadfield (role unspecified)
• Augustus Laver (role unspecified)
• Peter Patterson (role unspecified)
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe (role unspecified)
• Peter Faneuil (role unspecified)
• John Ostell (architect)
• James Hoban (role unspecified)
• Edmund Wooley (role unspecified)
• William Thornton (role unspecified)
• Alexander Mackenzie Ross (engineer)

Album of views of major urban centres in Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Ontario and Québec and scenic views of the Adirondack Mountains, the White Mountains, Niagara Falls, Montmorency Falls and Chaudière Falls, United States and Canada

1886

- Album PH1986:0431:001-050 comprises 32 views of the United States, including: seven views of the Adirondack Mountains in New York; three views of the White Mountains in New Hampshire; seven views of Boston, Massachusetts; five views of Washington, D.C.; four views of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and two views of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are 14 views of Canada, including seven views of Ottawa, Ontario, and seven views of Québec: three views of Québec City, Québec; three views of Beauport, Québec; and one view of Montréal, Québec. There are eight views of Niagara Falls: five views of the American side and two views of the Canadian side.

Albumen silver prints

album (closed): 30,1 x 26,3 x 3,7 cm comps. (range): 7,9 to 25,1 x 5,9 to 24,4 cm sheets (range): 10 to 14,9 x 10 to 15,5 cm sheets (range [bound]): 23 to 29,3 x 23 to 29,3 cm

PH1986:0431:001-050

• general view
• exterior views

- Contemporary binding consists of white tape binding, tooled maroon leather-covered boards and spine with marbled endpapers. There are 36 cream-coloured wove cardboard pages of which only the first 16 are used. The pages have gilt edging and the bottom right corner of page 13 (PH1986:0431:037 and PH1986:0431:038) is broken off.

inscribed and dated - on PH1986:0431:001, by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, u.c.: "Canada + United States 1886." inscribed - on all of the photographs, by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary supports, u.c. to l.c.: with titles imprinted and numbered - on several of the photographs, by an unknown hand, in typescript, in the image, l.l. to l.c.: with series [?] number and title

Adirondack Mountains; New York; United States;

• architecture
• engineering
• military
• topographic
• urban planning

• government office buildings
• entrances
• fences
• stairs
• chimneys (architectural elements)
• houses
• museums
• parapets
• offices
• dining rooms
• apartment houses
• cresting
• balconies
• street lighting units
• domes
• libraries (buildings)
• rivers
• ships
• spires
• terraces
• towers (building divisions)
• topographical view
• capitols
• canals
• bridges (built works)
• markets (buildings)
• mansions
• columns (architectural elements)
• church towers
• ponds
• churches
• mountains
• towers (single built works)
• cargo vessels
• warehouses
• dwellings
• pediments
• porches
• row houses
• city halls
• outbuildings
• tracks
• football fields
• hotels (public accomodations)
• lakes
• office buildings
• picket fences
• steeples
• libraries (rooms)
• dormitory (building)
• cliffs
• citadels
• clock towers
• memorials
• balustrades
• chapels
• lumber
• rapids
• religious buildings
• cupolas
• kitchens
• driveways
• ports
• municipal buildings
• piers (marine landings)
• resorts
• finials
• waterfalls
• theatres
• cantilever bridges
• porticos
• public buildings
• universities
• observatories
• banquet halls
• colleges
• rail fences
• dormers
• commercial buildings
• streetcar tracks
• cabins (houses)
• dockyards
• post offices
• wagons
• classrooms
• streetcars
• parks (recreation areas)
• canoes
• boathouses
• avenues
• campuses
• mercantile buildings
• urban landscapes
• steamboats
• footpaths
• overlooks
• parliament buildings
• flumes
• meeting houses
• gymnasiums
• elm trees
• laboratories
• historic monuments
• community centres
• buttresses
• plaques (flat objects)
• terrace walls
• suspension bridges
• lumberyards
• reservoirs (water distribution structures)
• sawmills
• sleighs
• treasuries

Contains:

• PH1986:0431:001, View of ships docked at piers, Port of Québec [?], Québec [?], 1886
• PH1986:0431:002, View of Terrasse Dufferin and the Citadelle de Québec in winter from the Saint Lawrence River, Québec, 1886
• PH1986:0431:003, View of Montmorency Falls with Haldimand House (now the Maison Montmorency) on the far left, Beauport, Québec, 1886
• PH1986:0431:004, View of Terrasse Dufferin from above with the quartier du Petit-Champlain and the Port of Québec in the background, Québec, 1886
• PH1986:0431:005, View of the Montmorency River, Beauport [?], Québec, 1886
• PH1986:0431:006, View of Montmorency Falls in winter showing the sugarloaf, Beauport, Québec, 1886
• PH1986:0431:007, View of the Post Office (now demolished) with the Rideau Canal in the foreground and the Parliament Buildings in the right background, Ottawa, Ontario, 1886
• PH1986:0431:008, View of the principal and lateral façades of the West Block of the Parliament Buildings from the southeast, Ottawa, Ontario, 1886
• PH1986:0431:009, View of the principal and lateral façades of the Centre Block (now rebuilt) of the Parliament Buildings from the southwest, Ottawa, Ontario, 1886
• PH1986:0431:010, View of the principal and lateral façades of the East Block of the Parliament Buildings from the southwest, Ottawa, Ontario, 1886
• PH1986:0431:011, View of a lumberyard on the Ottawa River with houses in the foreground and warehouses in the background, Ontario, 1886
• PH1986:0431:012, View of the Library of Parliament from the northeast, Ottawa, Ontario, 1886
• PH1986:0431:013, View of Chaudière Falls, Ottawa, Ontario, 1886
• PH1986:0431:014, View of Montréal from Mount Royal showing the McTavish Reservoir in the foreground, Basilique Notre-Dame in the centre background and Pont Victoria in the right background, Québec, 1886
• PH1986:0431:015, View of Profile Mountain (also known as Old Man of the Mountain or the Great Stone Face), White Mountains, New Hampshire, 1886
• PH1986:0431:016, View of Franconia Notch from Mount Lafayette showing Profile House and Echo Lake below, White Mountains, New Hampshire, 1886
• PH1986:0431:017, View of Crawford Notch from Crawford House showing the railroad tracks of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad Company in the center, White Mountains, New Hampshire, 1886
• PH1986:0431:018, View of Edmond's Pond, Adirondack Mountains, New York, 1886
• PH1986:0431:019, View of Allen House from Grand View House with Mirror Lake in the background, Adirondack Mountains, New York, 1886
• PH1986:0431:020, View of Wilmington Flume, Wilmington Notch [?], Adirondack Mountains, New York, 1886
• PH1986:0431:021, View of Ausable Pass from Beede House showing a footpath with a cabin [?] in the background, Adirondack Mountains, New York, 1886
• PH1986:0431:022, View of Upper Ausable Lake, Adirondack Mountains, New York, 1886
• PH1986:0431:023, View of Upper Ausable Lake with a man in a canoe in the right foreground, Adirondack Mountains, New York, 1886
• PH1986:0431:024, View of Upper Ausable Lake with two men in a canoe in the left foreground, Adirondack Mountains, New York, 1886
• PH1986:0431:025, View of the Whirlpool Rapids on the Niagara River with the cantilever bridge in the background, Niagara Falls, New York, 1886
• PH1986:0431:026, View of Niagara Falls showing Prospect Point and the American Falls on the left and Horseshoe Falls and the Table Rock Hotel in the background, New York and Ontario, 1886
• PH1986:0431:027, View of the American Falls from the Shadow of the Rock, Niagara Falls, New York, 1886
• PH1986:0431:028, View of Horseshoe Falls from below Table Rock, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1886
• PH1986:0431:029, View of Niagara Falls showing Prospect Point and the American Falls on the left and Horseshoe Falls in the background, New York and Ontario, 1886
• PH1986:0431:030, View of the Shadow of the Rock Observatory and access stairs buried under snow with the American Falls in the background, Niagara Falls, New York, 1886
• PH1986:0431:031, View of the Cave of the Winds with Whirlwind Bridge (now demolished) in the background, Niagara Falls, New York, 1886
• PH1986:0431:032, View of Luna Falls (also known as Bridal Veil Falls) and the American Falls from Goat Island showing Prospect Point and the suspension bridge in the background, New York, 1886
• PH1986:0431:033, View of Independence Hall with a municipal building on the left, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1886
• PH1986:0431:034, View of the principal façade of Carpenters' Hall, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1886
• PH1986:0431:035, View of the steeple of Old North Church (now Christ Church) with apartment houses [?] in the foreground, Boston, Massachusetts, 1886
• PH1986:0431:036, View of the principal façade of the Old State House (now Old City Hall), State Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1886
• PH1986:0431:037, View of the principal and lateral façades of the Old South Meeting-house (also known as Old South Church), Washington and Milk Streets, Boston, Massachusetts, 1886
• PH1986:0431:038, View of the principal façade of the New State House (also known as the Massachusetts State House), Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1886
• PH1986:0431:039, View of the principal and lateral façades of Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, 1886
• PH1986:0431:040, View of the principal façade of King's Chapel, Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1886
• PH1986:0431:041, View of the principal façade of Memorial Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1886
• PH1986:0431:042, View of Harvard University with Harvard Hall on the left, University Hall in the center and Massachusetts Hall on the right, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1886
• PH1986:0431:043, View of the First Church Congregation with Washington's Elm in the foreground, Garden and Mason Streets, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1886
• PH1986:0431:044, View of the principal and lateral façades of the A.U.A. building, Boston, Massachusetts, 1886
• PH1986:0431:045, View of Washington's Elm, Garden Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1886
• PH1986:0431:046, View of the principal and lateral façades of the Capitol, Washington, D.C., 1886
• PH1986:0431:047, View of Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House with the Capitol in the background, Washington, D.C., 1886
• PH1986:0431:048, View of the principal and lateral façades of the Treasury, 15th Street, Washington, D.C., 1886
• PH1986:0431:049, View of the south façade of the White House, Washington, D.C., 1886
• PH1986:0431:050, View of the principal and lateral façades of the Army, Navy and State Department Building, Washington, D.C., 1886