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[Pencil drawings by Caroline Bacon Coleman, 1864-1868]
MANUSCRIPT SMC II : BOX 21 : FOLDER 11
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Title:

[Pencil drawings by Caroline Bacon Coleman, 1864-1868]

Creator/Contributor:

Coleman, Caroline Bacon, 1821-1896, creator

Abstract:

This collection consists of twenty-two detailed pencil drawings on a newsprint sketchpad, dated 1864-1868. Identified drawings include Fort Yuma in 1864, General Jillers [sp.?] mansion at the head of the Bayous Burrow, Niagara Falls and Mount Baker from Cedar Hill near Victoria, 80 miles distance. Sketches from magazines: In the Yosemite dated 1868, Yosemite Fall, Nevada Fall, Bridel Veil Fall and North Dome. In addition: Palace of Chief of the Nootkas, St. Lawrence at the Thousand Isles, Natural Bridge in Virginia, Cascade of the Trenton Falls and Among the Thousand Islands. Several pages have unidentified sketches of flowers, lake inlets and snowy mountains.

Date:

1864 (issued)

Subject:

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Coleman, Caroline Bacon -- 1821-1896
Art

Note:

Coleman, Caroline Bacon; pencil drawings, 1864-1868.
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.
Gift of David Forbes.
Includes brief and inconclusive biographical genealogy handwritten in pencil: "Caroline Bacon-Coleman, Canadian, married John ? Coleman of North Carolina- where Claire Eloise Coleman was born and brought up on a Southern Plantation up to the age of 11 or 12 ? After the Civil War, all was lost and Caroline Bacon took her daughter Claire Eloise (Qaba) and together they started around the Horn of California. (Caroline Bacon Coleman had also two sons Charles Carson Coleman and Richard ? Coleman ?) They arrived in California and I believe that It was in Santa Clara Valley where Caroline Coleman taught school. She was blind by this time, but her pupils never ... "

Type:

biography
Drawings.
Pencil works.

Physical Description:

print
22 drawings : pencil works (sketchpad) ; sheets 19 x 25 x 1 cm.

Language:

English

Identifier:

MANUSCRIPT SMC II : BOX 21 : FOLDER 11

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.