Image / Camp at Donner Lake, Nov. 1846, [California]

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Title: Camp at Donner Lake, Nov. 1846, [California]
Creator: Burton, C. W. (active ca. 1879), American, artist C.L. Smith & Co (active ca. 1878-ca. 1879), American, lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [1879?]
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: Donner Party encampment with several log structures, one covered with animal hides. Men, women and children involved in various activities: hauling water, chopping wood, unloading wagons, tending cook fires. Cattle grazing in distance near lake. Sierra Nevada Mountains rising in distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): Burton; (LR): Lith. by C.L. Smith & Co., Oakland Cal[ifornia].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 28.5 x 36.1 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7r29p5sj
BANC PIC 1963.002:0358--B
Subject: California, Northern
Frontier & pioneer life
Lakes & ponds
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Settlements
Settlers
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Westward movement

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