Chavis Creek,Camp 14th,Gold Rush,California,Snow,Prospectors,1859,Daniel Jencks

Title: Chavis Creek, camp 14th
Creator(s): Jenks, Daniel A., artist
Date Created/Published: [1859]
Summary: Drawing shows a man wrapped in a blanket walking through the snow toward a sod or log structure lacking a door. Another man walks behind him carrying a log. A man and a woman stand in the doorway of the structure while two men stock a wagon. On Wednesday, April 13, 1859, Jenks' party arrived at Camp 14 - Chavis Creek. He wrote in his diary, 'more snowing and blowing.'
Notes:
Signed lower right on wagon: DAJ.
Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.2)
Exhibited in: American treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 2003.
Subjects:
Gold rushes--California--1850-1860.
Sod buildings--1850-1860.
Snow--1850-1860.
Drawings--American--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2004661629/
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