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Description
Rare albumen photograph of a celebration of passengers during a stop along the Canadian Pacific Railway… likely an unexpected halt…but no great photographer let’s a moment or crisis go to waste.
(Charles A. Mayo and J.E. Weed)
Active at 63rd St. & Stewart Ave. Abel Building. (Englewood) Chicago. A partnership of Chicago photographers, Charles A. Mayo and J.E. Weed. The firm were "special artists" for Graftons Tours, which was also a Chicago company. In 1891, J.E. Weed traveled to Alaska with a tour going along the scenic route of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Mayo & Weed published a catalogue and album of this trip. The catalogue described the views of this trip as sized 5x8 and 8x10.
This unpublished photograph measures 8 x 10
(Charles A. Mayo and J.E. Weed)
Active at 63rd St. & Stewart Ave. Abel Building. (Englewood) Chicago. A partnership of Chicago photographers, Charles A. Mayo and J.E. Weed. The firm were "special artists" for Graftons Tours, which was also a Chicago company. In 1891, J.E. Weed traveled to Alaska with a tour going along the scenic route of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Mayo & Weed published a catalogue and album of this trip. The catalogue described the views of this trip as sized 5x8 and 8x10.
This unpublished photograph measures 8 x 10
