Collection Highlights
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..
Date:
1864
Object Number:
LIB.E185.62.C76.1864
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
View of the Mississippi River from Trempealeau, Wisconsin
Object Number:
1955.39
Date:
1858-59
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 3/4 x 7 1/8 in. ( 14.6 x 18.1 cm )
mat: 14 x 18 in. ( 35.6 x 45.7 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "From Nature by E. Whitefield"
inscription: lower center: "From Trempeleau [sic], Wisconsin/looking up"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower left in red ink: "From Nature by E. Whitefield"; card inscribed at lower center: "From Trempeleau, Wisconsin / looking up."
Gallery Label:
Another version of this same sketch appears in Bertha L. Heilbron's article, "Edwin Whitefield's Minnesota Lakes," Minnesota History, 33 (1953): 247-51, with six illustrations.
Credit Line:
Purchase, Norvin H. Green Fund
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
