lesson 5 Document 25
TITLE: The dessert [e.g. desert]
CALL NUMBER: DRWG/US - Jenks, no. 12
(AA size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-04817 (digital
image from original)
LC-USZC4-9434 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-128897 (b&w film copy neg.)
No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Drawing shows two men in the foreground,
approaching large green plants from the desert in western Nevada. Behind them, a
wagon train makes its way across the desert flats. Beyond, mountains rise. It
took Jenks and his party several days to make the desert
crossing, from August 2 through August 7, 1859.
MEDIUM: 1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, crayon
and watercolor with scraping out ; 18.2 x 25.3 cm. (sheet).
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1859]
CREATOR: Jenks,
Daniel A., artist.
NOTES: Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.12)
Exhibited in: American treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
2003.
SUBJECTS: Gold
rushes--California--1850-1860.
Deserts--Nevada--1850-1860.
Mountains--Nevada--1850-1860.
Wagon
trains--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 04817 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.04817
(color film copy transparency) cph 3g09434 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g09434
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c28897 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c28897
CARD #: dwg2001000236/PP
