Sixteen Rare Artist's Proof Photographs Printed by Burton Frasher. de (PHOTOGRAPHY: DEATH VALLEY & VICINTY) - [ca. 1926-35]

Pomono: Frasher's Photos, [ca. 1926-35]. Original silver gelatin proof prints by Burton Frasher of scenes in Death Valley and environs. Sight size of each is 5 x 7 inches and the mount size is 10 x 8 inches. All with the Frasher logo in the print as well as stamped in the back. one photograph with a small marginal tear. Impeccable condition of rarely seen views. All photographs were laboriously identified on three typed sheets. From the library of Hugh Toldford.When one thinks of Frasher the first thing that comes to mind are his numerous RPPCs but the photographs on offer here are all his deluxe format photographs and are seldom seen, especially not in this condition and number. After years of traveling while working in the fruit packing industry, Burton Frasher and his wife Josephine opened a photo shop in La Verne, California in 1914. Six years later they moved to Pomona where he expanded his studio by publishing postcards. Frasher went to great lengths to find images for his real photo postcards. He traveled extensively through California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada, ranging up through Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, and down through Baja California region and Sonora, Mexico, taking pictures during a time these locations were still largely inaccessible by road. He was one of the major RPPC makers of his day and his work is sough after now. The titles of these artist's proofs are: Old Stamp Mill, Keane Wonder Mine, Death Valley; Pete Aguerberry, One of the Remaining Old Timers of Early Death Valley Days; The Bottle-Dugout at Stovepipe Wells; Abandoned Cabin at San Springs, North End Death Valley; Shoshone Indian "Nettie", Old Doc's Squaw, Death Valley; School House at the Ghost City of Rhyolite, Nev,; Historic 20 Mule Team Borax Wagons, Death Valley; Basket Making is Taught Down Through the Generations, Shoshone Indians, Death Valley; Easter Sunrise Services in the San Dunes in Death Valley; Indian Children at Indian Village; Bones of Oxen in Death Valley; Main Street of the Ghost City of Rhyolite, Nevada [even though this was taken in 1925, 18 years after Rhyolite's heyday, it looks like it has been desert for generations]; Two Burrows Standing in Front of a Miner's Dugout House; Death Valley Scotty Standing Next to His Shack; Mill in Death Valley with 3 Men Standing on a Walkway, One of Whom is Carrying a Gun.N.B. Pete Aguerberry came to the Death Valley region in 1905 and that same summer nearly died while tying to cross Death Valley in Summer. He stuck gold with the Eureka mine but nonethess less remained in Death Valley for another 40 years.