Three original pen and ink drawings. Two drawings, "Engineers Camp in the Mountains," and an untitled drawing depicting men surveying, contain the pencilled caption in an unidentified hand on verso: "Running the U.P.R.R. line West of Omaha, 1865." The third drawing, entitled "Lieut. H. B. Cushing's Indian fight '68," contains a note on the verso in Ransom's hand briefly listing his military service with the United States Army Infantry and Cavalry.
Description:
Member of surveying party for the Union Pacfic Railroad Company; United States Army officer. and The 1865 drawings were purchased from Edward Eberstadt & Sons in 1974.
Subject (Name):
Cushing, Howard Bass, -1871, Ransom, Frederick E., and Union Pacific Railroad Company--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Wars--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works, Railroads--Nebraska--Pictorial works, and Railroads--Nebraska--Surveying--Pictorial works
Watercolor paintings and pencil sketches of Alaska
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Overview of Sitka, Alaska, which includes views of Baranov Castle, warehouses of the Russian-American Company, St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, and Sitka Harbor with the USS Newbern on the water.
Subject (Geographic):
Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡--Pictorial works and St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska)--Pictorial works
Cheyenne warrior and son of Cheyenne chief Eagle Head. He was imprisoned from 1875 to 1878 at Fort Marion, Saint Augustine, Florida, with other "hostile" Plains Indians. Their jailer, Captain Richard H. Pratt, encouraged the artistic talent of the Indians
Alternative Title:
Howling Wolf, Sketchbook
Description:
The note, "Drawn by Howling Wolf (Cheyenne) Oct 1876 Fort Marion" is written in pencil inside the front cover in an unidentified hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Castillo de San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting., Bison, Cheyenne art., Cheyenne Indians., Horses., Indian art., and Rites and ceremonies.