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Lesson 5 Document 24

TITLE:  Cache la Poudre Creek
CALL NUMBER:  DRWG/US - Jenks, no. 9 (AA size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsc-04814 (digital image from original)
LC-USZC4-9430 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-128892 (b&w film copy neg.)
No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY:  Drawing shows a covered wagon, labeled "ILL," driven by two ox crossing a river in the mountains. On the far side of the river are two men by a fire, a covered wagon, and men standing and gesturing toward the wagon in the middle of the river. On the near shore men stand beside unhitched wagons, one labeled "Ohio," the other, "1859 Pikes Peak." An ox grazes lower right. This stream is located near present-day Ft. Collins, Colorado. Jenks arrived at camp 52 on Monday, May 30, 1859.
MEDIUM:  1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, and crayon ; 18.3 x 25.5 cm. (sheet).
CREATED/PUBLISHED:  1859.
CREATOR: Jenks, Daniel A., artist.
NOTES: Signed on left wagon: DAJ. Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.9)

SUBJECTS: Covered wagons--1850-1860.
Fords (Stream crossings)--Colorado--1850-1860.
Mountains--Colorado--1850-1860.
United States--Colorado--Cache la Poudre River

FORMAT: Drawings American 1850-1860.
REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID:  (original) ppmsc 04814 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.04814
(color film copy transparency) cph 3g09430 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g09430
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c28892 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c28892
CARD #:  dwg2001000233/PP

 

 

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