Birds-eye view of the camp of the army of occupation, commanded by Genl. Taylor, near Corpus Christi, Texas, (from the North) Oct. 1845 / D.P. Whiting, Capt. 7th Inf. del. ; on stone by C. Parsons. – Vintage Photo 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Birds-eye view of the camp of the army of occupation, commanded by Genl. Taylor, near Corpus Christi, Texas, (from the North) Oct. 1845 / D.P. Whiting, Capt. 7th Inf. del. ; on stone by C. Parsons.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Birds-eye view of the camp of the army of occupation, commanded by Genl. Taylor, near Corpus Christi, Texas, (from the North) Oct. 1845 / D.P. Whiting, Capt. 7th Inf. del. ; on stone by C. Parsons.
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Few views of the Corpus Christi encampment survive from above, and this one shows the camp in careful detail. Captain Daniel Powers Whiting of the 7th Infantry drew the scene in October 1845, when Gen. Zachary Taylor's army of occupation was camped on the Texas coast after the United States annexed Texas. Taylor's men later marched to the Rio Grande in 1846, a move that helped bring on the Mexican War. The hand-colored lithograph, cut on stone by C. Parsons and published in New York by G. & W. Endicott around 1847, offers a rare record of how a temporary military town was laid out on open ground.
| Created / published | N. York : G. & W. Endicott, c1847. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, watercolor. |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1840-1850.Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Copyright by Daniel Powers Whiting. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Military camps--Texas--Corpus Christi--1840-1850. Mexican War, 1846-1848--Military facilities--Texas--Corpus Christi. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,461 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218422 |
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