Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Camp at Donner Lake, Nov. 1846, [California]

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/tf7r29p5sj