Title:
Camp at Donner Lake, Nov. 1846, [California]
Creator/Contributor:
Burton, C. W. (active ca. 1879), American, artist (artist)
C.L. Smith & Co (active ca. 1878-ca. 1879), American, lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
[1879?]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0358--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph
28.5 x 36.1 cm.
Content/Description:
Donner Party encampment with several log structures, one covered with animal hides. Men, women and children involved in various
activities: hauling water, chopping wood, unloading wagons, tending cook fires. Cattle grazing in distance near lake. Sierra
Nevada Mountains rising in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): Burton; (LR): Lith. by C.L. Smith & Co., Oakland Cal[ifornia].
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Lakes & ponds;
Overland journeys to the Pacific;
Settlements;
Settlers;
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.);
Westward movement
Genre/Format:
Lithographs