In 1853 Richard Hovendon Kern was hired as topographer and artist for a government-sponsored reconnaissance led by Captain John Williams Gunnison. Kern sketched landscape panoramas as the group made its way from St. Louis toward San Francisco. When the expedition reached Sevier Lake, Utah, however, it was attacked by a band of Indians. Seven men, including Kern and Gunnison, were killed, and Kern's drawings were stolen. The sketches were soon recovered and eventually carried to Washington, D.C.
Robert Shlaer, an accomplished daguerreotypist, came across Kern's sketches many years later at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He was inspired to locate the views depicted in the drawings and to photograph them, as nearly as was possible, from the same spot where Kern had stood when he sketched them. This collection juxtaposes Kern's drawings with Shlaer's photographs, presenting 389 illustrations in geographic sequence from east to west
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| Title | Alternative Title | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 126 |  | Plate 126 | Entrance to Coochutoke Pass, sketch |
| 127 |  | Plate 127 | Entrance to Coochutoke Pass, photograph |
| 128 |  | Plate 128 | Entrance to Coochutoke Pass, composite drawing and photograph |
| 129 |  | Plate 129 | Entrance to Del Norte, sketch |
| 130 |  | Plate 130 | Entrance to Del Norte, photograph |
| 131 |  | Plate 131 | Entrance to Del Norte, photograph, composite drawing and photograph |
| 132 |  | Plate 132 | August 30th Sahwatch Mts (sketch in three parts) |
| 133 |  | Plate 133 | Drawing as a continuous panorama, Sahwatch Mts, August 30th |
| 134 |  | Plate 134 | Sahwatch Mountains, panoramic photograph |
| 135 |  | Plate 135 | Sahwatch Mountains, composite drawing and photograph |
| 136 |  | Plate 136 | Sah-watch Creek in Coo-che-to-pa Pass, Aug. 31st, 1853 |
| 137 |  | Plate 137 | Coo-che-to-pa Pass, three drawings |
| 138 |  | Plate 138 | Coo-che-to-pa Pass, two drawings |
| 139 |  | Plate 139 | Coo-che-to-pa Pass, photograph |
| 140 |  | Plate 140 | Coo-che-to-pa Pass, composite of two drawings and photograph |
| 141 |  | Plate 141 | Near summit of Coo-che-to-pa Pass, Aug. 31st, sketch |
| 142 |  | Plate 142 | Near summit of Coo-che-to-pa Pass, Aug. 31st; West of Coo-che-to-pa Pass, Sept. 1st |
| 143 |  | Plate 143 | Stock yard near summit of Coo-che-to-pa Pass, photograph |
| 144 |  | Plate 144 | Near summit of Coo-che-to-pa Pass, composite drawings and photograph |
| 145 |  | Plate 145 | Coo-che-to-pa Pass, leaving Sawatch Creek, sketch |
| 146 |  | Plate 146 | Coo-che-to-pa Pass, leaving Sawatch Creek, photograph |
| 147 |  | Plate 147 | Coo-che-to-pa Pass, leaving Sawatch Creek, composite drawing and photograph |
| 148 |  | Plate 148 | Coo-che-to-pa Pass, color lithograph |
| 149 |  | Plate 149 | Coo-che-to-pa Pass, leaving Sawatch Creek, composite sketch and lithograph |
| 150 |  | Plate 150 | In Coo-che-to-pa Pass, sketch |