Image / [Mount Rainier from Steilacoom, Washington Territory, July 16, 1855]

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Title: [Mount Rainier from Steilacoom, Washington Territory, July 16, 1855]
Creator: McMurtrie, William Birch (1816-1872), American, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1855
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: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Small settlement of houses in wooded clearing; Mount Rainer in distance; open wagon pulled by four horses races through encampment. Possibly Fort Steilacoom.
Handwritten title (LL): Mt Rainier - from Steilaco[o]m - W[ashington] T[erritory]/ July 16, 1855. Signature (LR): Wm. McMurtrie.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: pencil 18.1 x 27.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1q2nb4gv
BANC PIC 1963.002:1300:23--ALB
Subject: Military facilities
Mountains
Northwest, Pacific
Settlements
Washington (State)

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