Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Drawings of beauty that became America’s West, cactus and all. Lithographic plates from the United States Army Corps of Engineers 1848 work “Notes of a military reconnaissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers.”
“Valencia, New Mexico.” Page 59. 1848. C. B. Graham, Washington, lithographer. Collections of the University of Michigan. Google, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ggFZAAAAMAAJ/page/n59“View of the Copper Mine.” Page 74. 1848. C. B. Graham, lithographer. Collections of the University of Michigan. Google, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ggFZAAAAMAAJ/page/n73“Vegetation of the Gila.” Page 104. 1848. C. B. Graham, Washington, lithographer. Collections of the University of Michigan. Google, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ggFZAAAAMAAJ/page/n103“Chain of Natural Spires on the Gila.” Page 108. 1848. C. B. Graham, Washington, lithographer. Collections of the University of Michigan. Google, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ggFZAAAAMAAJ/page/n107Caption not legible. Page 83. 1848. C. B. Graham, lithographer. Collections of the University of Michigan. Google, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ggFZAAAAMAAJ/page/n82“Cereus Giganteus.” (Engleman, Appendix #2, continued). Page 94. 1848. C. B. Graham, lithographer. Collections of the University of Michigan. Google, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ggFZAAAAMAAJ/page/n93
Look for more soon. 600 page book and I only got up to page 107.
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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