[Liberian senate]
1 drawing : watercolor, ink, and graphite ; 39.4 x 49.2 cm (sheet) | Drawing shows an assembly of the Senate of Liberia; members are numbered, includes corresponding key.
[Design for certificate for Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association]
1 drawing : ink brush and ink wash over graphite underdrawing. | Allegorical drawing shows such Greek muses as Minerva, goddess of war and knownledge (center), and to her left muses of the arts and to her right, such artisans as shipbuilders, blacksmiths, silversmiths, architects, and clockmakers. The certificate was used for the Fourteenth Exhibition in 1881.
Contributor:
Billings, Hammatt
Date:1850-01-01
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Jersey shore near Beverley [sic]
1 drawing on tan paper : graphite ; sheet 19.6 x 25.3 cm. | Drawing shows the shoreline of the Delaware River near Beverly, New Jersey, with a dilapidated wharf at center and a sailboat just off shore.
Contributor:
Bonfield, George Robert
Date:1859-01-01
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Butte City
1 drawing : watercolor, ink brush, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing. | Drawing shows Butte City, California as it looked around 1854, an established mining community, when George Henry Burgess camped near there while seeking gold with his brother Charles. There are forty buildings, including residences and store fronts. Miners seek gold in a trench on the outskirts of town, lower right.
Contributor:
Burgess, George Henry
Date:1854-01-01
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Saml. Adams
1 drawing : oil. | Full-length posthumous portrait of Boston patriot Samuel Adams leaning against a chair. He stands on one paper, while another rests atop a table to the left.
Contributor:
Chappel, Alonzo
Date:1858-01-01
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Round Hill Water Cure Northampton M
1 drawing : ink and graphite with scraping out. | Landscape drawing shows the building and grounds which housed the Round Hill Water Cure in Northampton, Massachusetts, a medical institution based on hydropathic principles, opened by Dr. E. E. Denniston in 1847. Hydropathic institutes, or water cures, were one of the health and personal hygiene reforms that started in the 1840s. The Northampton Association…
Contributor:
Farmer, E. W.
Date:1856-01-17
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Portland, Maine, U.S.A.
1 drawing : watercolor and opaque white over graphite. | Drawing shows spires and buildings of Portland, Maine from across the harbor. Small figures of men and woman stand on the shore in the foreground, watching boats and ships sail. Three steamships travel up and down the water.
Sunday April 3d 1859
1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, and crayon ; 17.8 x 25.2 cm. (sheet). | Drawing shows a man, facing left, wrapped in a blanket and trudging through snow on the Great Plains, perhaps in far eastern Kansas on the Santa Fe trail. Daniel Jenks wrote in his diary at Camp No. 5 - 110 Creek, Sunday, April 3, 1859, "I pushed on…
Contributor:
Jenks, Daniel A.
Date:1859-01-01
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North Platte
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…
Contributor:
Jenks, Daniel A.
Date:1859-01-01
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Camp 90, De Casure Creek
1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, and crayon ; 17.8 x 25.2 cm. (sheet). | Drawing shows two men standing on the edge of a plateau, lower left, and pointing toward a group of covered wagons camped by a river in the distance. Mountains rise up on the opposite side of the river. This camp may have been in Utah near present-day Salt…
Contributor:
Jenks, Daniel A.
Date:1859-01-01
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The dessert [i.e., desert]
1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, crayon and watercolor with scraping out ; 18.2 x 25.3 cm. (sheet). | 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…
Contributor:
Jenks, Daniel A.
Date:1859-01-01
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Humbolt [sic] River Valley
1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, and crayon ; 17.8 x 25.2 cm. (sheet). | Drawing shows the Humboldt River snaking its way across the valley from a vantage point up in the mountains. The California Trail is in the foreground. The California Trail picks up the Humboldt River near present-day Elko, Nevada. Jenks arrived here on Saturday, July 31 and remained through…
Contributor:
Jenks, Daniel A.
Date:1859-01-01
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Camp 100 - Humbolt [sic] River
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.
Contributor:
Jenks, Daniel A.
Date:1859-01-01
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Mountain camp, Siera [sic] Nevada
1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, and crayon ; 17.7 x 25.3 cm. (sheet). | Drawing shows a camp in the heart of a forest of tall pines. Covered wagons rest, their wheels nearly hidden by tall grass in the clearing. Men and women cook over a large open fire near a stream in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, having left Susanville, California that…
Contributor:
Jenks, Daniel A.
Date:1859-01-01
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Chavis Creek, camp 14th
Drawing shows a man wrapped in a blanket walking through the snow toward a sod or log structure lacking a door. Another man walks behind him carrying a log. A man and a woman stand in the doorway of the structure while two men stock a wagon. On Wednesday, April 13, 1859, Jenks' party arrived at Camp 14 - Chavis Creek. He wrote in…