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Mojave Route, El Dorado Canyon and Fort Mojave, 1863 - Photographic Views

Owning Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

About this Collection

The Photographic Views of the Mojave Route, El Dorado Canyon and Fort Mojave collection contains 41 photographic prints taken by Rudolph D'Heureuse in 1863. Pictured in the collection is the Mojave Desert region from the San Bernardino Valley and Cajon Pass eastward to the Colorado River and Fort Mojave of Arizona. The reason D'Heureuse photographed this section of the "Mojave Road" and the adjacent region is unclear. It is most likely that he was surveying the area in association with either the Macedonia Mining District or the California State Geological Survey. D'Heureuse's work is considered to be the earliest extant body of survey photographs of this region. View collection guide.

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44 items found in this collection

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Below San Juan Cabin, Eldorado Canyon
Cactus and small Yucca at Rock Spring
Cactus, Eldorado Canyon
Cajon Pass Tollgate
Camp Cady
Capt [Captain] Atchison, his orderly and clerk in the rear of his …
Carpenter shop, Fort Mojave
Cedar Spring Canyon (Providence Mts.)
Colorado River at Fort Mojave
Dr. [doctor] Stark and Indians, Fort Mojave
Eldorado Canyon from San Juan Camp, downwards
Forks of the roads
Group of Indian chiefs and others, Fort Mojave
House of Woosencroft (i.e., Wozencraft), formerly Mormon Elder Lyman's for himself and …
Indian girl (Topsy and captain's cook), Fort Mojave
Indians and soldiers
John Moss and Piute Chief Tercherrum
Lanes, on first crossing of Mojave
Lewis Spring
Lewis Spring
Macedonia Mts. and plains from Rock Springs
Marl Spring
Martin's. 12 mi [miles] from San Bernadino
Mojave Piutes (Asper-ka-miah (t?) or Eagles ?)
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