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Umpqua Village, half mile below Fort Umpqua – Antique Wall Art

Umpqua Village, half mile below Fort Umpqua, 1858 — antique engraving
Umpqua Village, half mile below Fort Umpqua, 1858. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Umpqua Village, half mile below Fort Umpqua. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Umpqua Village, half mile below Fort Umpqua

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Few pictures name a village so precisely. This wood engraving places an Umpqua settlement half a mile below Fort Umpqua, the Hudson's Bay Company post on the Umpqua River in southwestern Oregon. *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* printed it on April 24, 1858, giving eastern readers a view of a region most had never seen. Engravings like this were usually cut by staff craftsmen from sketches or secondhand accounts, so the lodges and figures show what the publisher imagined a Native camp to be, and they are best read as a record of that expectation.

Created / published1858
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1858 April 24, p. 332. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians--Camps...; Oregon--Ft. U. region; Indian tribes--Umpqua; Indian tribes--Oregon; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,143 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140165

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