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Abies douglass ii / J. Young del. – Antique Wall Art

Abies douglass ii / J. Young del., [ca. 1855] — antique lithograph
Abies douglass ii / J. Young del., [ca. 1855]. Antique lithograph from the Flowers & Trees collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare antique lithograph captures Abies douglass ii / J. Young del. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Among the botany plates from the Pacific Railroad surveys, this one shows the Douglas fir, a conifer named for the Scottish plant collector David Douglas, who gathered specimens in the Pacific Northwest in the 1820s and 1830s. J. Young drew the color lithograph for the government's survey reports on the 47th and 49th parallels, published in the mid-1850s while Congress weighed possible routes for a transcontinental railroad. Plates like this gave readers in the East one of their first detailed looks at western trees that had until then been known mostly through dried specimens.

Created / published[ca. 1855]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreLithographs Color 1850-1860.
NotesCompleted for the U.S. Pacific Railroad Explorations and Surveys, Calif. and Oregon. Illus. from: U.S. Pacific railroad explorations and surveys. 47th and 49th parallels. House executive document 129, 33rd Congress, 1st Session. Botany, plate VII.
SubjectsExpeditions & surveys--West (U.S.)--1850-1860. Firs--West (U.S.)--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,145 × 1,457 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216129

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