View on road to Grasshopper Creek near Perryville, Kansas
Series TitleAcross the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway
Artist
Alexander Gardner
(American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)
Dateca. 1867
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 1/8 inches (18.1 × 23.18 cm)
Mount: 11 7/8 × 18 inches (30.16 × 45.72 cm)
Mount: 11 7/8 × 18 inches (30.16 × 45.72 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3213
SignedTyped on mount recto, lower left: "A. GARDNER, Photographer,";
Typed on mount recto, lower right: "511 Seventh Street, Washington."
InscribedTyped on mount recto, lower center: "ACROSS THE CONTINENT ON THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY, E.D."
MarkingsOn mount recto, upper right, pencil: "352";
On mount recto, lower left, pencil: "No 20"
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DescriptionVintage albumen print of two figures in the wilderness, sitting on a tree trunk.Exhibition HistoryAcross the Indian Country: Photographs by Alexander Gardner, 1867-1868. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 25, 2014 - January 11, 2015, Jane L. Aspinwall, Alexander Gardner The Western Photographs, 1867 – 1868, 2014, atc no. 42.
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Alexander Gardner
ca. 1867-1868
2007.17.20
Alexander Gardner
ca. 1863
2005.27.470
