Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Baker, George Holbrook (1827-1906), American, artist
Group Creator Name:
- Barber & Baker (active ca. 1855), publisher
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
Crossing the plains
Date:
1853
Materials:
print on tinted paper: engraving
Dimensions:
28.1 x 22.7 cm., sheet
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0023--A
Subject:
- Animals
- Bison
- Camping
- Colorado
- Cowboys
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Hunting
- Indians of North America
- Mountains
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Settlers
- Vehicles
- Westward
movement
- Wyoming
- Engravings
- Landscapes
- Pictorial lettersheets
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Thirteen images: emigrant train passing Wind River mountains, Wyoming; Indians chasing buffalo, Scott's Bluffs, Nebraska; first night on plains; scene on desert; driving stock across plains; Sioux Indians; Court House Rock and Chimney Rock, Colorado; Laramie Peak, Wyoming; California Indians; mouth of Ash Hollow, Nebraska; Devil's Gate, Nevada; and Castle Rock, Colorado.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (UC). Printed (UC, below title): Views drawn from nature, in 1853, by George H. Baker; (LC): Published by Barber & Baker, Sacramento, copywright [sic] secured. Each image captioned.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf0z09p08 h

Crossing the plains