[Umpqua Indians of Oregon Territory: summer lodges of the Umpqua Indians"]" – Historic Print
![[Umpqua Indians of Oregon Territory: summer lodges of the Umpqua Indians"]", 1858 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bf/bf4d0e31ca55-L.webp)
(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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[Umpqua Indians of Oregon Territory: summer lodges of the Umpqua Indians"]" comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Umpqua Indians of Oregon Territory: summer lodges of the Umpqua Indians"]"
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The subject here is the summer lodges of the Umpqua, a people of the Umpqua River valley in what was then Oregon Territory, rather than a general view of Native camps. The wood engraving ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* in April 1858, when the Umpqua and neighboring groups were under growing pressure from settlers and federal treaty policy. Illustrations like this one were usually engraved from sketches or secondhand descriptions, so they show what editors and readers in the East expected Western life to look like as much as what the camps were actually like. Viewers should keep that distance in mind when reading the scene.
| Created / published | 1858 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1858 April 24. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians--Camps; Indian tribes--Umpqua; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,225 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140166 |
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