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Title
Hutchings' panoramic scenes, crossing the plains
Creator
Baker, George Holbrook (1827-1906), American, artist Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason) (1820-1902), publisher Sun Print (active ca. 1850), printer
Date Created and/or Issued
1853
Publication Information
Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information
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Description
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.
Printed title (UC). Printed (LL): Published by J.M. Hutchings, Placerville, copyright secured; (LR): Views drawn from nature in 1853, by George H. Baker, Sun print. Handwritten letter on recto and verso. Printed captions. For variant see 1963.002:0055--B.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: wood engraving 28.8 x 23.3 cm., image on sheet 28.8 x 46.6 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1p3007cf
BANC PIC 1963.002:0056--B
Subject
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

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