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Title: Rio Colorado near the Mojave Villages [California/Arizona]
Creator: Young, J. J. (active ca. 1854), artist Mollhausen, H. B. (active ca. 1854), German, artist (based on original by) Sarony, Major & Knapp, lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1854]
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: River tow crossing with boats being pulled by ropes; figures on both banks hold ropes; Indians and military officials in foreground.
Printed title (LC). Printed (UL): U.S.P.R.R. exp. & surveys, 35th parallel; (UR): Top[ographica]l report; (LL): Drawn by J.J.Young from a sketch by R.R.Molhausen; (LC, below title): View No. 2/from ? island looking north; (LR): Lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York. Likely from the United States Pacific Railroad Survey in California, under the command of Lieut. R.S. Williamson, in 1853-54.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 22.7 x 28.6 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf300008sq
BANC PIC 1963.002:0478:05--A
Subject: Arizona
California, Southern
Expeditions & surveys
Indians of North America
Military personnel
Railroads
Rivers
Vessels
West (U.S.)

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