Manzanita – 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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Manzanita comes to life in this antique lithograph, 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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Manzanita, a Spanish name for shrubs and small trees of the genus *Arctostaphylos*, is the subject of this color lithograph, the third plate in the botany volume of the Pacific Railroad surveys. Army topographical engineers carried out those surveys in the early 1850s to find practical routes for a transcontinental railroad, and naturalists collected plants along the way. Illustrations like this one helped scientists and officials recognize western species and judge the region's resources. The plate was printed as part of a House executive document from the 33rd Congress, which places it within government-sponsored natural history of the period.
| Created / published | [ca. 1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Illus. from: U.S. Pacific railroad explorations and surveys, California and Oregon, Botany / U.S. Army, Corps of Topographical Engineers. House executive document 129, 33rd Congress, 1st session, plate III. |
| Subjects | Trees--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,672 × 3,801 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219892 |
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