MS 051 - Western Scenes: Woodcuts and Engravings
Abstract
Collection consists of various published images of western scenes cut out of various publications, including Picturesque and Marvels of the New World, as well as French and German language books and newspapers. The plates represent scenes from the American west and give a good indication of how the United States was pictured in the mid-nineteenth century.
Dates
- Created: 1842-1937
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
4.00 boxes
Language of Materials
English
German
French
Arrangement Note
The Western Scenes: Woodcuts, and Engravings Collection (No. 051) is arranged intellectually into seven series, and physically into four boxes and one bin
- Bacon, John M. (Brigadier-General)
- Badlands
- Bison (American) [Buffalo]
- Bodmer, Karl
- Cody, William F. (William Frederick) 1846-1917
- Cossacks
- Cowboys
- Custer, George Armstrong (General)
- Geronimo
- Indians (Native Americans)
- Indians of North America--Portraits
- Missouri
- Montana
- Moran, Thomas
- Oregon
- Remington, Frederic
- Rocky Mountains
- Sierra Nevada Mountains
- Teton Mountains
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Yellowstone National Park
- Author
- Samantha L. Harper
- Description rules
- Other Unmapped
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Eng
Repository Details
Part of the McCracken Research Library Repository