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Head of Sacramento Valley looking down from above Shasta City: drawing


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    Head of Sacramento Valley and Shasta Peak: drawing

    Manuscripts

    The forty-two drawings are arranged according to their five general subjects: California Native Americans (7), California landscapes (24), Mexico (4), Central America (6), and Other (1). Although the exact Indian tribes in Brown's drawings are not known, it is believed that they are the Maidu, Nomlaki, Patwin, Wintun, and /or the Shasta. The California landscape drawings include views of San Francisco, Mount Shasta, Marysville, Grass Valley, mining camps, the Sacramento River, and Nevada City. The scenes of Mexico and Central America include Acapulco, the Gulf of California, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador. The drawings are dated 1851 and 1852. There is one undated drawing of the Susquehanna River in Port Deposit, Maryland.

    HM 62464 (19)

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    Untitled [drawing shows Goat Island and the San Francisco Bay]: drawing

    Manuscripts

    On verso: various sketches. Recto:

    HM 62464 (30)

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    Coast Range from Tehama: drawing

    Manuscripts

    On verso: Sketch of a man sitting. Recto:

    HM 62464 (21)

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    California Indians - Women, Upper Sacramento Valley: drawing

    Manuscripts

    On verso: "Doubtless Chino village near Munroe's Ranch Upper Sacr[amento] River." Published in Drawn from Life: California Indians in Pen and Brush by Theodora Kroeber, Albert B. Elsasser, and Robert F. Heizer, page 194.

    HM 62464 (3)

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    On the Sacramento near Shasta Head of Great Sacramento Plain April 1852: drawing

    Manuscripts

    The forty-two drawings are arranged according to their five general subjects: California Native Americans (7), California landscapes (24), Mexico (4), Central America (6), and Other (1). Although the exact Indian tribes in Brown's drawings are not known, it is believed that they are the Maidu, Nomlaki, Patwin, Wintun, and /or the Shasta. The California landscape drawings include views of San Francisco, Mount Shasta, Marysville, Grass Valley, mining camps, the Sacramento River, and Nevada City. The scenes of Mexico and Central America include Acapulco, the Gulf of California, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador. The drawings are dated 1851 and 1852. There is one undated drawing of the Susquehanna River in Port Deposit, Maryland.

    HM 62464 (9)

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    Shasta Peak from Tehama about 100 miles distant: drawing

    Manuscripts

    On verso: "Tehama, Sacramento River, Cala. 1852."

    HM 62464 (11)