Camp 120, Eagle Lake, Sierra Nevadas – Vintage 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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Camp 120, Eagle Lake, Sierra Nevadas comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Camp 120, Eagle Lake, Sierra Nevadas
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Few sketches from the 1860s record a single campsite as precisely as this one, which is labeled "Camp 120" in the Eagle Lake area of the Sierra Nevada. The drawing, made in graphite, ink, and crayon on a small sheet and signed "DAJ 1860," shows covered wagons and the rough encampment that travelers relied on during the long overland journeys to California. By 1860 the gold rush of the late 1840s and early 1850s had passed its peak, but emigrant traffic over the mountains and the mining camps it supported were still a visible part of California life. The Library of Congress holds the sheet in its Prints and Photographs Division.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, and crayon ; 17.7 x 25 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860. |
| Notes | Signed lower right: DAJ 1860. Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.15) Exhibited in: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 2004. |
| Subjects | Gold rushes--California--1860. Covered wagons--1860. Camps--California--1860.United States--California--Eagle Lake |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,546 × 3,690 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222773 |
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