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Sketches and notes by Alfred J. Miller illustrating an expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1873 conducted by Sir William Drummond Stewart : photographs of the watercolors in the Walters Art Gallery of Baltimore, Maryland

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Title: Sketches and notes by Alfred J. Miller illustrating an expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1873 conducted by Sir William Drummond Stewart : photographs of the watercolors in the Walters Art Gallery of Baltimore, Maryland
Creator: Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874
Date Created and/or Issued: 195u
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
The photos of the sketches were originally taken by Walters staff photographer, Shirley Hobbs for Marvin C. Ross' book The West of Alfred Jacob Miller (1951). The negatives are at the Walters Art Museum
Library is missing 50 of the photoprints interspersed throughout the collection.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Other
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 4 boxes (200 photoprints) : black and white ; 61 x 52 cm
Identifier: (C)001535969CSL01-Aleph
(OCoLC)904056983
Language: English
Subject: Clement, Antoine
Miller, Alfred Jacob,, 1810-1874
Stewart, William Drummond,. Sir,, 1795-1871
Buffaloes--Pictorial works
Chinook Indians--Pictorial works
Dakota Indians--Pictorial works
Indians of North America--Pictorial works
Nez Perc©♭ Indians--Pictorial works
Pawnee Indians--Pictorial works
Shoshonean Indians--Pictorial works
Shoshoni Indians--Pictorial works
Siksika Indians--Pictorial works
Fort Laramie (Wyo.)--Pictorial works
Wind River Range (Wyo.)--Pictorial works
Place: Fort Laramie (Wyo.)
Wind River Range (Wyo.)
Relation: Miller, Alfred Jacob,1810-1874. The West of Alfred Jacob Miller (1937) from the notes and water colors in the Walters Art Gallery,. (OCoLC)1723247

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