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Creator:: Pope, John, 1822-1892
Published / Created:: circa 1860.
Call Number:: WA MSS S-2923 P8258
Image Count:: 4
Abstract:: Two drawings by John Pope of United States Army forts in West Texas. The drawing of Fort Davis is ink and wash over graphite and measures 20 x 32 cm.; it is inscribed on the lower right "Ft Davis Head Quarters 8th Infantry on road from Horsehead X of ...
Description:: John Pope was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 16, 1822, the son of Nathaniel and Lucretia Backers Pope. He attended West Point from 1838 to 1842, and was brevetted second lieutenant in the topographical engineers. Pope served with the United St...
Subject (Geographic):: United States., Texas, Fort Davis (Tex. : Fort), and Fort Lancaster (Tex.)
Subject (Name):: Pope, John, 1822-1892.
Subject (Topic):: Artists and Fortification
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Drawings of Fort Davis and Fort Lancaster

Creator:: Ferguson, Henry, 1848-1917
Call Number:: YCAL MSS 118
Image Count:: 31
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Holograph journal (ca. 300 pages) written in a printed pocket diary for the year 1866, of Henry Ferguson's experiences with his brother Samuel as passengers on the clipper-ship Hornet sailing from New York on Jan 15 1866, to San Francisco; the onboard...
Subject (Geographic):: Pacific Ocean. and Hawaii
Subject (Name):: Ferguson, Henry, 1848-1917., Ferguson, Samuel., Twain, Mark, 1835-1910., Harper & Brothers., and Hornet (Clipper-ship)
Subject (Topic):: Shipwrecks, Voyages to the Pacific coast, and Description and travel
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal of a voyage on the clipper ship Hornet and related correspondence, 1866-1901