Title:
Camp scene in the Mohave Valley of Rio Colorado [California/Arizona]
Creator/Contributor:
Tidball, J. C. (active ca. 1843-ca. 1854), artist (artist)
Sinclair, Thomas S. (active ca. 1849-ca. 1853), lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
[not before 1854]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0478:03--A
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
24.1 x 29 cm.
Content/Description:
Broad plain with low mountains rising in distance above river. Indians with spears and bows in foreground; survey encampment
with tents in middleground.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (UL): U.S.P.R.R. exp. & surveys, 35th parallel; (UR): Itinerary; (LL): L[ieutenan]t J.C.Tidball
2[n]d Art[illar]y; (LR): T.Sinclair's lith., Philad[elphi]a. Likely from the United States Pacific Railroad Survey in California,
under the command of Lieut. R.S. Williamson, in 1853-54.
Subjects:
Arizona;
California, Southern;
Camping;
Expeditions & surveys;
Indians of North America;
Railroads;
West (U.S.)
Genre/Format:
Illustrations;
Landscapes;
Lithographs, color