File:Sierra-Nevada-Mountain-Camp-Jenks.jpeg

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English: Mountain camp, Siera [sic] Nevada

Drawing shows a camp in the heart of a forest of tall pines. Covered wagons rest, their wheels nearly hidden by tall grass in the clearing. Men and women cook over a large open fire near a stream in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, having left Susanville, California that morning, on Saturday, August 13, 1859, and made camp here.

MEDIUM: 1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, and crayon ; 17.7 × 25.3 cm. (sheet).
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Source Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsc-04820 (digital image from original), archival TIFF version (15 MiB), color level (pick white and black point), cropped, and converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2.6.6, image quality 88.
Author Daniel A. Jenks (1827–1869)
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