Sketch of Wagon Train Approaching Fort Laramie, Wyoming, circa 1842
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Artifact Overview
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1842
Creator Notes
Photograph of 1929 sketch by William Henry Jackson, after original 1842 sketch by John Charles Fremont.
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.1859.73
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.375 in
Width: 10.125 in
Inscriptions
Typed on paper sheet affixed to back of image:
FORT LARAMIE, was the meeting place where the Mormon Trail joined the/ Oregon Trail on the south side of the North Platte. Built in 1834 for a / fur trading post it was bought in 1849 by the United States for Military / post, figuring prominently in the Indian affairs of that region.
For Laramie, Wyoming on the Overland Trail, on the south side of the / North Platte. Sketch after Fremont and from memory by W.H. Jackson, / pioneer artist, copyright and published through courtesy of the Oregon / Trail Memorial Association, Inc.
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