View of a U shaped building and a stockade with horses at Fort Mitchell in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. People gather around a campfire near a covered wagon. Cavalry troops ride toward a pack train on the Oregon Trail. A wagon train and Scotts Bluff (later Scotts Bluff National Monument) are in the distance. A North American Indian encampment is beside the North Platte River.
Description
1 photographic print : hand col. ; 24 x 34 cm. (9 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.) mounted on mat board 41 x 51 cm. (16 x 20 in.)
Is Part Of
Denver Public Library Western Art Collection
Subject
Fort Mitchell (Neb.)--19th century; North Platte River--19th century; Oregon National Historic Trail--19th century; Scotts Bluff National Monument (Neb.)--19th century; Scottsbluff (Neb.)--19th century; Cavalry--Nebraska--Fort Mitchell--19th century; Forts & fortifications--Nebraska--Fort Mitchell--19th century; Pack trains--Nebraska--Fort Mitchell--19th century; Rivers--Nebraska--Fort Mitchell--19th century; Wagon trains--Nebraska--Fort Mitchell--19th century; Watercolors--1930-1940; Westward movement--Nebraska--Fort Mitchell--19th century
Format-Medium
Art; Photograph;
Source
Clarence S. Jackson; purchase; 1954.
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image File: ZZR700310615
Notes
"No. 16" inked on verso.; Photographic print of a watercolor by William Henry Jackson, from the William Henry Jackson Collection at Scotts Bluff National Monument, hand colored by Clarence S. Jackson.; Title penciled on mat board.; R7003106156
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