A pack train to Santa Fé, 1820 – Historic Print
(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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A pack train to Santa Fé, 1820 comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A pack train to Santa Fé, 1820
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Mules and horses loaded with goods, moving in a long file across open country, make up this wood engraving of a pack train bound for Santa Fé in 1820. It appeared in Henry Inman's *The Old Santa Fé Trail* in 1897, facing page 57, so it is a later rendering of earlier travel rather than a picture made on the road. Pack animals were a common way to move goods before heavy wagons carried most of the trade, and commerce along the route grew after Mexico won independence in 1821. The engraving shows how such caravans were organized and equipped.
| Created / published | 1897 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Henry Inman, The Old Santa Fé Trail ... 1897, facing p. 57. No reference copy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: West--Trapping; West--Transport.; West--Santa Fe Train; N.M.--Santa Fe; RR-; Stage Coaches; Pack trains. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 945 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-143498 |
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