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