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Title
[Mississippi River] (2 views)
Creator
Catlin, George, 1796-1872
Date Created and/or Issued
1848
Publication Information
London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Plates in: Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : in a series of letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing. : with three hundred and sixty engravings, from the author's original paintings / by Geo. Catlin, Vol. 2, plate 140 - 141, no. 248 - no. 251.
Image no. 248 shows Lover's Leap on east side of Lake Pepin; image no. 249 shows bluff, Pike's Tent, named for Lieutenant Pike; image no. 250 shows "Cap au l'ail" (Garlic Cape) about twenty miles above Prairie du Chien; image no. 251 shows the "Cornice Rocks."
View 1 (2010-6714GEN). Images no. 248 - 249 -- view 2 (2010-6715GEN). Images no. 250 - 251.
Type
image
Format
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
4 prints (2 pages) : lithograph, col. ; images 3 x 4 3/4 in. on pages 9 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001485560CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Rivers--Great Plains
Cliffs--United States
Great Plains--Pictorial works
Mississippi River--Pictorial works
Prints
Lithographs
Landscape prints
Place
Great Plains
United States
Mississippi River

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