The Adelle Webber Gray photograph album contains 75 photographs and 14 photo-reproductions of scenes from Watkins Glen in New York, Yosemite, and Colorado as well as 13 newspaper clippings and two advertisements regarding travel in the western United States.
The album (21.5 x 26.5 cm) has read leather covers. Inside of the front cover are two of Gray's bookplates and a loose clipping from 1906 regarding the purchase of Watkins Glen. The album begins with a series of views of Watkins Glen (including some showing the stairs built around the waterfalls). Pages are mostly blank from pgs. 17 to 113 except for pg. 107 which includes 10 loose clippings about camping and traveling in the western United States mostly from Christian Life magazine. Other images of interest after pg. 113 include views of a man standing inside a tree in California's Redwood Forest; waterfalls at Yosemite; Denver, Colorado, scenes such as the train depot and Stout Street; Silver Plume, Colorado; the Loop between Manitou Springs and Georgetown; an 1884 photographic reproduction print by W. H. Bagley; a railroad going through Clear Creek canyon; Pikes Peak; Helen Hunt Jackson's grave in Colorado Springs; the Garden of the Gods; Manitou Springs; Williams Canyon; Ute Pass; and pictures of men and cows taken by W. H. Allen and William Henry Jackson. Also of note are advertisements for a print of Mount Holy Cross by Thomas Moran and for the caves at Manitou Springs, two photographic reproductions of views of Marshall Pass, and photographs of the peak of Sierra Blanca, taxidermy coyotes and a mountain lion, and a train snowplow in Ivanhoe, Colorado.
