W.B. Tyler
Presentation Album of California Scenes, 1889
Photo album; albumen prints (27)
Each 5 5/8 x 3 5/8 inches, and the reverse
With Tyler's blind stamp on recto.
With Tyler's blind stamp on recto.
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Album comprising 27 well-composed cabinet-sized photographs by the noted San Francisco photographer, William B. (W.B.) Tyler. The album gives a cross section of San Francisco and the vicinity, including a...
Album comprising 27 well-composed cabinet-sized photographs by the noted San Francisco photographer, William B. (W.B.) Tyler.
The album gives a cross section of San Francisco and the vicinity, including a selection of Tyler’s specific areas of focus; Mission Dolores in the city’s Mission District; San Francisco street scenes and panoramic views, one photograph portrays establishments at “Barbary Coast”, one of which is identified as the Tehama Lodging House, while another shows streetcars at the C.P.R.R. Ferry Terminal; also included are shots of Chinatown and its environs, with a short series depicting the Bun Sun Low Restaurant, located at 629 Jackson Street. Following these are several images of Golden Gate Park, and three photographs of the Yosemite Valley.
The album was presented to Thomas Bours by T. McSweeny in February 1889.
Albumen prints, the images measuring 5 5/8x3 5/8 inches (14.2x9.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with Tyler’s blind-stamp in the lower left corner. Small 4to, debossed cloth; a few leaves detached.
Tyler’s legacy within the cannon of commercial Western photographers remains fairly minimal. He is known to have published a small book in 1889, entitled “The Festival of The Great Dragon, Chinatown, San Francisco,” featuring photographs by Samuel Cheney Partridge. Tyler also published (and possibly photographed) a series of images documenting the California missions throughout the 1880s. We have located a record of auction for Tyler’s entire inventory in February of 1891, it would appear that this was the end of his tenure as a photographer/publisher.
The album gives a cross section of San Francisco and the vicinity, including a selection of Tyler’s specific areas of focus; Mission Dolores in the city’s Mission District; San Francisco street scenes and panoramic views, one photograph portrays establishments at “Barbary Coast”, one of which is identified as the Tehama Lodging House, while another shows streetcars at the C.P.R.R. Ferry Terminal; also included are shots of Chinatown and its environs, with a short series depicting the Bun Sun Low Restaurant, located at 629 Jackson Street. Following these are several images of Golden Gate Park, and three photographs of the Yosemite Valley.
The album was presented to Thomas Bours by T. McSweeny in February 1889.
Albumen prints, the images measuring 5 5/8x3 5/8 inches (14.2x9.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with Tyler’s blind-stamp in the lower left corner. Small 4to, debossed cloth; a few leaves detached.
Tyler’s legacy within the cannon of commercial Western photographers remains fairly minimal. He is known to have published a small book in 1889, entitled “The Festival of The Great Dragon, Chinatown, San Francisco,” featuring photographs by Samuel Cheney Partridge. Tyler also published (and possibly photographed) a series of images documenting the California missions throughout the 1880s. We have located a record of auction for Tyler’s entire inventory in February of 1891, it would appear that this was the end of his tenure as a photographer/publisher.