ohy_mss5310.xml Guide to the Robert Swain Gifford illustrations from Picturesque America Gifford (Robert Swain) illustrations from Picturesque America Oregon Historical Society Research Library 2012; revised 2022
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-08-03. Finding aid is written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Oregon Historical Society Research Library Robert Swain Gifford illustrations from Picturesque America Gifford, R. Swain (Robert Swain), 1840-1905 Mss 5310 0.1 cubic feet 1 folder in shared box 1872 Ten engravings, some hand colored, by Robert Swain Gifford, excised from Volume 1 of "Picturesque America: Or, the Land We Live In" edited by William Cullen Bryant, 1872. The engravings depict Native people and landscape features along the Columbia River, primarily in the Columbia River Gorge. English

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Robert Swain Gifford illustrations from Picturesque America, Mss 5310, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

Contains material previously designated Mss 5310-1 through Mss 5310-8. Collection was titled "Robert Swain Gifford collection" prior to August 2022.

Ten engravings, some hand colored, by Robert Swain Gifford, excised from L. J. G. Runkle's chapter "Up and Down the Columbia" in Volume 1 of "Picturesque America: Or, the Land We Live In," edited by William Cullen Bryant (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872). The engravings depict Native people and landscape features along the Columbia River, primarily in the Columbia River Gorge. Scenes include Salmon Falls; Rooster Rock; Coffin Rock; river passage at The Dalles; Castle Rock (now known as Beacon Rock); Multnomah Falls; and Mount Hood. Includes duplicates of Mount Hood engravings.

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 Columbia River Gorge (Or. and Wash.)--Pictorial works Hood, Mount (Or.)--Pictorial works Mountains--Oregon--Pictorial works Waterfalls--Oregon--Pictorial works Formations (Geology)--Northwest, Pacific Indians of North America--Oregon--Pictorial works Oregon Washington (State) Fine Arts engravings (prints)