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TITLE: Chavis Creek, camp 14th
CALL NUMBER: DRWG/US - Jenks, no. 2 (AA size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-04807 (digital image from original)
LC-USZC4-9422 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-128882 (b&w film copy neg.)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: 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 his diary, "more snowing and blowing."
MEDIUM: 1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, and crayon ; 18.4 x 25.3 cm. (sheet).
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1859]
CREATOR:
NOTES:
Signed lower right on wagon: DAJ.
Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.2)
Exhibited in: American treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 2003.
SUBJECTS:
Gold rushes--California--1850-1860.
Sod buildings--1850-1860.
Snow--1850-1860.
FORMAT:
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original) ppmsc 04807 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.04807
(color film copy transparency) cph 3g09422 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g09422
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c28882 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c28882
CONTROL #: 2004661629
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