- Creator:
- Ransom, Frederick E.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1865-1868].
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2038 R174
- Image Count:
- 7
- Resource Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Frederick E. Ransom drawings
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