Lesson 7 document 21
TITLE: Camp 100 - Humbolt [sic] River
CALL NUMBER: DRWG/US - Jenks, no. 14
(AA size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-04819 (digital
image from original)
LC-USZC4-8872 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-128889 (b&w film copy neg.)
No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Drawing shows several tents and covered
wagons encamped on the banks of the Humboldt River in western Nevada. Both women
and men prepare food over open fires, haul water, and prepare bedding. In the
foreground, inside a covered wagon, a couple
courts. Jenks and his party reached here on Friday, July 22,
1859.
MEDIUM: 1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, crayon
and watercolor ; 18.2 x 25.4 cm. (sheet).
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1859.
CREATOR: Jenks,
Daniel A., artist.
NOTES: Signed lower right: DAJ 1859. Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund
(Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.14) Published in: American women : a
Library of Congress guide ... Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 222.
Exhibited in: American treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
2003.
SUBJECTS:
Gold
rushes--California--1850-1860.
Cookery--1850-1860.
Covered
wagons--1850-1860.
Camps--Nevada--1850-1860.
Women--Nevada--1850-1860.
FORMAT: Drawings
American 1850-1860.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (original) ppmsc 04819 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.04819
(color film copy transparency) cph 3g08872 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g08872
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c28889 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c28889
CARD #: dwg2001000238/PP
