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lesson 8 Document 24

TITLE:  My cabin, Long Gulch
CALL NUMBER:  DRWG/US - Jenks, no. 19 (AA size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsc-04824 (digital image from original)
LC-USZC4-9428 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-128884 (b&w film copy neg.)
No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY:  Drawing shows a lone cabin, made with hewn boards, amongst scrub brush and trees before low-lying hills. Jenks' cabin door and a window are open, partially revealing a fireplace and bunk in the one room. To the left is a shed for firewood. Various implements are scattered in the foreground. Jenks bought a mining claim on Long Gulch on December 24, 1859.
MEDIUM:  1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, and crayon ; 17.7 x 25.3 cm. (sheet).
CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1860]
CREATOR: Jenks, Daniel A., artist.
NOTES: Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.19)

SUBJECTS: Gold rushes--California--1860.
Cabins--California--1860.
FORMAT: Drawings American 1860.
REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID:  (original) ppmsc 04824 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.04824
(color film copy transparency) cph 3g09428 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g09428
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c28884 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c28884
CARD #:  dwg2001000243/PP

 

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