[Pioneers in covered wagons] – Historic Print
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(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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[Pioneers in covered wagons]
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Charcoal gives this scene of pioneers and their covered wagons a smudged, dusky softness, with the canvas tops and loaded beds reduced to broad masses of tone. The record dates it only to a span between 1890 and 1938, a period when the overland trail era was already a memory and artists and writers often looked back on it with nostalgia. In the mid-1800s, wagons like these, drawn by oxen or mules, carried families along routes such as the Oregon Trail, and by the turn of the century they had become a favored symbol of westward expansion. The drawing is worth noticing for how it turns a working vehicle into an emblem of endurance.
| Medium | 1 drawing : charcoal. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Frontier & pioneer lifeWagonsWest (U.S.) |
| Notes | [between 1890 and 1938] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,302 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-202176 |
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