Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Crossing the plains
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creator Name:
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Baker, George Holbrook (1827-1906), American, artist
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Group Creator Name:
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- Barber & Baker (active ca. 1855), publisher
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Title:
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Crossing the plains
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Date:
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1853
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Materials:
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print on tinted paper: engraving
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Dimensions:
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28.1 x 22.7 cm., sheet
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Current Location:
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Bancroft Library.
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Address:
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Berkeley, California 94720-6000
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Object ID:
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BANC PIC 1963.002:0023--A
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Subject:
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- 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:
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Notes:
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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:
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Notes:
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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.
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf0z09p08h
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