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Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives, 1899-1937 Concord Free Public Library — Special Collections |
Series VIII – Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and North Dakota, 1899-1928
Series VIII (20 glass, 14 film;) is organized into four subseries; all subseries are arranged by date. Wisconsin contains two portraits in Fond du Lac: a small child, and a Miss Gridley. Chicago images include: Eugenie Street, and a vase of flowers in the home of Stephen T. Mather, wealthy Chicago businessman and first director of the National Park Service. (For other images related to Mather, see Series V, XIV, and XVI.) Iowa images include: bluffs outside Dubuque and along the Yellow River; "Pike's Peak" in McGregor along with scenes of Painted Rocks; and two botanicals.
On a train trip though North Dakota in 1905, Gleason photographed a number of prairie scenes including prairie farms and farm machinery, a street scene in the town of Kenmare, several rural train stations, and natural phenomena (including cloud formations and a sunset).