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HARVEY, FRED, Hand Colored Views Grand Canyon of Arizona [Cover Title].
. Oblong 4to 11-3/8 x 14-1/8. 18 hand colored plates tipped to cream paper with printed legend. Gray blue wrappers, printed in gold and blue. ¶ Fred Harvey (1835-1901) founded the Harvey House hotel, restaurant, and dining car chain that served passengers on the Santa Fe and other Southwestern railways. Harvey essentially invented the popular image of the Southwest, tailoring its scenery and the appearance of Native American life and art to suit the taste of tourists who took his "Harvey Company Detour" tour packages. This album of Grand Canyon views is typical of Harvey's aesthetic - the naturally picturesque Southwestern landscape overlaid with the weirdly man-made feel of the hand-coloring. Harvey was also a publisher of "photostint" postcards, similar in appearance to these Grand Canyon views, sold to promote his Harvey House chain. With 2 other hand colored plates of the Grand Canyon laid in
Offered for US$ 750.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 236101