Historic View of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Overlooking the Arkansas River, 1856

Name: Historic View of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Overlooking the Arkansas River, 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-69
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1856
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Arkansas
Reference: BG-14038-69

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Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

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Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Fort Smith on the Arkansas River, a color-tinted lithograph of 1856 from the Pacific Railroad Surveys reports (heading "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, 35th Parallel", marked "Itinerary"). The plate is lettered "Fort Smith, Arkansas" beneath the image, with the draftsman's credit to Möllhausen at lower left and the lithographer's name at lower right.

The town is seen from the far bank of the river. A line of low buildings runs along the top of a pale clay bluff at the left, and the fort's barracks stand farther right beside a tall flagpole flying the national flag, with a thin column of smoke rising behind them. A side-wheel steamboat lies at the foot of the bluff, and the broad river fills the foreground, edged by rocks and a driftwood-strewn bank.

Fort Smith, on the western edge of Arkansas, was the starting point for the survey along the 35th parallel, and the view shows the town as the surveyors found it.

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