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Navajos / H.B. Mollhausen; T. Sinclair's lith., Phila. – Historic Reproduction

Navajos / H.B. Mollhausen; T. Sinclair's lith., Phila., Phila. : T. Sinclair's lith., [ca. 1855] — antique lithograph
Navajos / H.B. Mollhausen; T. Sinclair's lith., Phila., Phila. : T. Sinclair's lith., [ca. 1855]. Antique lithograph from the Native Americans 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 lithograph of Navajos / H.B. Mollhausen; T. Sinclair's lith., Phila.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Navajos / H.B. Mollhausen; T. Sinclair's lith., Phila.

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Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen, a German-born artist and writer, made the drawing that this color lithograph reproduces, and it shows Navajo people as the Whipple survey encountered them in the Southwest. T. Sinclair's Philadelphia shop printed the plate for the official report of the U.S. Pacific Railroad surveys along the 35th parallel, the route Lieutenant Amiel Whipple's party followed in 1853 and 1854 while searching for a workable rail line to the Pacific. Images like this were among the few pictures of the region that most Eastern readers ever saw, and they reflect both the survey's scientific aims and an outside observer's viewpoint.

Created / publishedPhila. : T. Sinclair's lith., [ca. 1855]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreLithographs Color 1850-1860.
NotesIllus. from: U.S. Pacific railroad explorations and surveys. 35th parallel.
SubjectsIndians of North America--1850-1860. Navajo Indians--1850-1860. Expeditions & surveys--West (U.S.)--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,642 × 3,732 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221681

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