Lesson 5 Document 22
TITLE: North Platte- wagons on barges
CALL NUMBER: DRWG/US - Jenks, no. 10
(AA size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-04815 (digital
image from original)
LC-USZC4-8874 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-128883 (b&w film copy neg.)
No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Drawing shows two covered wagons being
ferried across the Platte River in central Wyoming. A man
stands on the far bank of the river, with a hook in one hand.
In the distance, people have set up camp in three covered wagons and a
tent. This camp may be near present-day Casper, Wyoming, where the Jenks
would have joined the Oregon Trail. Jenks and his party arrived
at camp 60 on Wednesday, June 8, 1859. He noted in his diary that they camped in
a cottonwood grove.
MEDIUM: 1 drawing on paper : graphite and ink ; 18.2
x 25.5 cm. (sheet).
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1859.
CREATOR:
Jenks,
Daniel A., artist.
NOTES: Signed on wagon: DAJ. Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison
Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.10) Published in: American women : a
Library of Congress guide ... Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 222.
SUBJECTS: Gold
rushes--California--1850-1860.
Covered
wagons--1850-1860.
Fords
(Stream crossings)--Wyoming--1850-1860.
United
States--Wyoming--North Platte River
FORMAT: Drawings
American 1850-1860.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (original) ppmsc 04815 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.04815
(color film copy transparency) cph 3g08874 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g08874
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c28883 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c28883
CARD #: dwg2001000234/PP
