George Sternberg Album #2 - Early Canadian Views
 

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Identifier

sa2-066-00

Date

1-1-1916

Description

This black scrapbook page contains four black and white photographs from George Sternberg's photo album. These photos reveal rivers, rock and land formations, and different vegetation, including coniferous trees, cottonwood trees, and prairie grasses. Underneath the photos are cursive inscriptions by the paleontologist George Sternberg. All of the images include photos of fossil-bearing outcrops. Two of the photos include a river, a camp with two light-colored tents, and Rosse's ranch.

Physical Description

11 x 15 inch post-bound photographic scrapbook

Keywords

Scrapbooking, Archives--History, Albums, Paleontology, Expedition photographs, Rivers, Coulees, Canada, Rock formations

Rights

© University Archives, Fort Hays State University

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

Comments

For questions contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu

Language

eng

Transcription

R.-21, T.-34, S.-34. ; 35102-16. Looking up the river showing our camp on the west side of river and Rosse's ranch on east side. ; 35096-16. Looking north from a point on Rosse's ranch. Small spruce trees are quite abundant in this section. ; 35101-16. The brakes [sic] [breaks] here are very steep with a lot of spruce trees in the short coulies [sic] [coulee] the trees in the river are mostly cottonwood. ; 35103-16. The butt [sic] [butte] in foreground is about 240 feet high. Our first specimen was collected at the base of this butt [sic] [butte].

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Keywords

Scrapbooking, Archives--History, Albums, Paleontology, Expedition photographs, Rivers, Coulees, Canada, Rock formations

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