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Title
Crossing of Athabasca River, in the Rocky Mountains [Canada]
Creator
Leitch, R. P. (active ca. 1865), artist Cooper, J., engraver
Date Created and/or Issued
1865
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
Expedition party on raft and horses make way across calm river; high, snow-capped mountains in distance.
Title from caption in book. Handwritten (LL): Crossing Athabasca River; (LR): Near Jasper House. Printed (LL, within image): R.P. Leitch; (LR, within image): J. Cooper, sc. From publication: The North-West passage by land (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1865), pg. 245.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper mounted on board: engraving 10.5 x 17.5 cm., on mount 18.8 x 27.5 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5g5010nk
BANC PIC 1963.002:0502:14--A
Subject
Canada
Expeditions & surveys
Mountains
Rivers

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