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Title
View of Galena Ill
Alternative Title
Whitefield’s Original Views of North American Cities No. 37.
Creator
Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892, artist
Endicott & Co. (New York, N.Y.), printer
Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892, publisher
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1856
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Image of an elevated landscape view of the town of Galena, Illinois, shown from a hillside with a family and dog in the foreground, and the city and the Mississippi River with steamboats, below; location key printed in margin.
"Drawn From Nature by E. Whitefield"--text, bottom left margin. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856, by E. Whitefield in the Clerks Office of the district Court of Illinois."--text, bottom margin centered.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 66.36 x 107.63 cm (26 1/8 x 42 3/8 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_VIEW_000524
408322
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1261
Language
English
Subject
Galena (Ill.)--Pictorial works
Mississippi River--Pictorial works
Boats and boating--Pictorial works
Cities and towns--Pictorial works
Landscapes--Pictorial works
Lithographs--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
View Prints
Large Size
Middle West
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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