Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Burton, C. W. (active ca. 1879), American, artist
Group Creator Name:
- C.L. Smith & Co (active ca. 1878-ca. 1879), American, lithographer and
publisher
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
Camp at Donner Lake, Nov. 1846, [California]
Date:
[1879?]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph
Dimensions:
28.5 x 36.1 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0358--B
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Lakes & ponds
- Overland
journeys to the Pacific
- Settlements
- Settlers
- Sierra Nevada (Calif.
and Nev.)
- Westward movement
- Lithographs
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Donner Party encampment with several log structures, one covered with animal hides. Men, women and children involved in various activities: hauling water, chopping wood, unloading wagons, tending cook fires. Cattle grazing in distance near lake. Sierra Nevada Mountains rising in distance.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): Burton; (LR): Lith. by C.L. Smith & Co., Oakland Cal[ifornia].
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf7r29p5s j

Camp at Donner Lake, Nov. 1846, [California]