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Upper Klamath Lake from Camp 28 – Antique Print

Upper Klamath Lake from Camp 28, [ca. 1855] — antique lithograph
Upper Klamath Lake from Camp 28, [ca. 1855]. Antique lithograph 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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Step back in time with Upper Klamath Lake from Camp 28, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Upper Klamath Lake from Camp 28

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Upper Klamath Lake, in south-central Oregon, is shown from a survey encampment the record labels "Camp 28," a numbered stop that suggests the view was drawn during a systematic march rather than a casual visit. The print belongs to the federal exploration and survey literature of the 1850s, when army topographers mapped western routes for a possible transcontinental railroad and published illustrated reports of what they found. Because the record's details come from an unverified caption card, the exact survey party and date should be checked against the original reports. Even so, the image is a useful glimpse of how government expeditions recorded unfamiliar landscapes in color.

Created / published[ca. 1855]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Exp. & Surveys; Geogr.--Oregon.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,293 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155803

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