Image / Camp scene in the Mohave Valley of Rio Colorado [California/Arizona]

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Title: Camp scene in the Mohave Valley of Rio Colorado [California/Arizona]
Creator: Tidball, J. C. (active ca. 1843-ca. 1854), artist Sinclair, Thomas S. (active ca. 1849-ca. 1853), 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: Broad plain with low mountains rising in distance above river. Indians with spears and bows in foreground; survey encampment with tents in middleground.
Printed title (LC). Printed (UL): U.S.P.R.R. exp. & surveys, 35th parallel; (UR): Itinerary; (LL): L[ieutenan]t J.C.Tidball 2[n]d Art[illar]y; (LR): T.Sinclair's lith., Philad[elphi]a. 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 24.1 x 29 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3t1nb5h4
BANC PIC 1963.002:0478:03--A
Subject: Arizona
California, Southern
Camping
Expeditions & surveys
Indians of North America
Railroads
West (U.S.)

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