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Title
[Turf house on the Great Plains]
Creator
Wimar, Carl (1828-1862), German, artist
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1852?]
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
Silhouettes of two people (Indians?) on horseback face third figure standing near sod house; barren landscape surrounded by mountains.
Title based on typed label (on verso).
Type
image
Format
Painting on board: oil 14.5 x 30.5 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4g50092c
BANC PIC 1963.002:1387--FR
Subject
Dwellings
Horses
West (U.S.)

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