Meigs Stanley (2 results)

Newspaper. 48p., folded tabloid newspaper, illustrations, photos, news, reviews, Out in the City book and media reviews section, opinion, resources, ads, toning at folds else very good on newsprint. Cover story on the political uses of moral panic over paedophilia. Look back at 1984. The major Canadian LGBTQ periodical from the 1970s and 1980s. Very political and under constant attack from the Right.

The personal annotated vernacular photograph album of Stanley V. Meigs, a railroad engineer based in Pueblo, Colorado. The album is peppered with some family photographs, including Meigs and a baby, but is mostly concerned with mining and engineering ventures in Utah and Colorado in 1908 or earlier. The album opens in Gold Springs, Utah, with several images of the settlement, the surrounding mountains, some interiors, four pages of family photographs, and a small two-panel elevated panoramic image of the town. Interspersed with the Gold Springs images are a few from Fay, Nevada, including the largest image in the album, featuring "Four Generations" of a Native American family. Meigs was evidently in Gold Springs to work for or visit the Buck Mountain Gold Mining Company, whose buildings and claims are featured in photographs here. The Jennie Mill is also captured in a handful of images, including the "Jennie Hoisting and Air Plants," the "Interior Jennie Mill - The Stamps and Amalgam Plates," and the "Jennie Shaft." Meigs includes a handful of casual photographs of Salt Lake City before the images shift to Colorado. The main reason for Meigs' presence in Colorado seems to be as an observer or participant on the Kansas-Colorado Railway surveying team. Various photographs are captioned "Kansas-Colorado Railroad Surveyor's Camp," "Kansas-Colorado Railway Grading Camp," "K-C Ry. Party," "The Garcia House K-C Ry. Camp," "K-C Ry.," and "K-C Ry. Camp." Many of the men associated with the Kansas-Colorado Railway surveying team are identified here, namely H.L. Titus, E.L. Wadsworth, C.W. Orr, O.R. Smith, a man named simply "Jack," plus two unnamed images of the same man who may be Meigs himself. This man bears a striking resemblance to the man featured in some of the earlier family shots and the handful of later images dated in 1920-21 at the end of this album. Meigs visits and pictures (often scenically) several Colorado locations, such as Beaver Creek, Portland, Turkey Creek (the only dated photograph in the album emanates from Turkey Creek and is captioned "Sept 20th, 1908"), Canon City, the Balanced Rocks at Lytle, Paradise Park, St. Charles River, Nepesta, Manzanola, Adobe (where Meigs records the scene of a train wreck in two images), Garden of the Gods, Cheyenne Canyon, Monument Park, the "Mine Entrance" at Manitou, Colorado Springs, Royal Gorge, and alfalfa farmers at Lamar. Some photographs have been removed from the later leaves of the album, though these are likely later family images not related to the engineering content. Five images are stored in an envelope mounted to the inside rear cover; these appear to be additional images of Gold Springs, with one of the settlement, two of the blacksmith's shop, and two of the exterior of the mine shaft. Stanley V. Meigs appears in a few engineering publications from early in the 20th century. In May 1911, Meigs is listed as a member of the Western Society of Engineers from Pueblo, Colorado, though he was serving as a draftsman for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Los Angeles. Later that year, Meigs registered a patent for a flanged-wheel railway motor car. He went on to become the Assistant Construction Engineer for Union Station in Los Angeles in the 1930s, compiling a report called THE UNION PASSENGER TERMINAL, LOS ANGELES: AN EARLY HISTORY OF THE CITY AND ITS TRANSPORTATION AND THE PROCEEDINGS LEADING UP TO THE UNION TERMINAL. The present album dates earlier than Meigs' time in Los Angeles, and likely represents the start of his engineering career. A striking collection of western images focused on mining, the railroads, and western scenery in Utah and Colorado. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black cloth, covers and interior pages ruled in white ink, ownership name "Stanley V. Meigs" written at bottom of front cover in white ink. Minor edge wear. Some photographs trimmed to fit the assembler's aesthetic, but in generally nice shape. Some photographs detached from leaves, held in an envelope pasted to rear wrapper. Overall very good.