Cottonwood Creek, Sunday April 10th 1859 – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Cottonwood Creek, Sunday April 10th 1859, preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Cottonwood Creek, Sunday April 10th 1859
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A dated sketch of a Kansas creek bank, the work is labeled "Cottonwood Creek, Sunday April 10th 1859," which pins it to a specific Sunday during a season of heavy overland travel. The Cottonwood, a tributary of the Arkansas River in east-central Kansas, lay along the routes that gold seekers used in 1858 and 1859 on their way west toward the Pike's Peak diggings in what is now Colorado. The catalog also links the sheet to the California gold rush, which had drawn emigrants across the plains since 1849, so the subject headings tie the scene to that wider migration. Drawn in graphite, ink, and crayon and signed "DAJ," it offers a close record of the open prairie and the creek timber that travelers passed through.
| Created / published | 1859 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, and crayon ; 18.2 x 25.3 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Drawings American 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Signed lower right: DAJ. Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.3) |
| Subjects | Gold rushes--California--1850-1860. Artists--1850-1860. Prairies--Kansas--1850-1860.United States--Kansas--Cottonwood River |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,546 × 3,669 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222775 |
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