Frederick E. Ransom drawings

Description

Title: Frederick E. Ransom drawings
Creator: Ransom, Frederick E.
Contributor: Cushing, Howard Bass, -1871
Ransom, Frederick E.
Union Pacific Railroad Company--Pictorial works
Published / Created: [ca. 1865-1868].
Abstract: Three original pen and ink drawings. Two drawings, "Engineers Camp in the Mountains," and an untitled drawing depicting men surveying, contain the pencilled caption in an unidentified hand on verso: "Running the U.P.R.R. line West of Omaha, 1865." The third drawing, entitled "Lieut. H. B. Cushing's Indian fight '68," contains a note on the verso in Ransom's hand briefly listing his military service with the United States Army Infantry and Cavalry.
Description: Member of surveying party for the Union Pacfic Railroad Company; United States Army officer.
The 1865 drawings were purchased from Edward Eberstadt & Sons in 1974.
Extent: 3 items.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Manuscripts
Sketches
Resource Type: Paintings & Drawings
Subject (Name): Cushing, Howard Bass, -1871
Ransom, Frederick E.
Union Pacific Railroad Company--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic): Indians of North America--Wars--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works
Railroads--Nebraska--Pictorial works
Railroads--Nebraska--Surveying--Pictorial works

Access: Public
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Citation: Frederick E. Ransom Drawings. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.