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
Filters: Date: "2005" Collection: "uu_rkfws"
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| 51 |
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Plate 225 | Valley of Gunnison River and Blue Mesa Reservoir, photograph |
| 52 |
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Plate 228 | On Twin Creek, Grand River country, photograph |
| 53 |
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Plate 231 | Grand River, color photograph |
| 54 |
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Plate 234 | Blue Mesa Reservoir color photograph |
| 55 |
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Plate 244 | Grand River Canon, panoramic photograph |
| 56 |
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Plate 251 | Lake Fork of the Grand River seen from Sapinero Mesa, panoramic photograph |
| 57 |
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Plate 254 | Lake Fork, photograph |
| 58 |
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Plate 257 | Upper reaches of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison |
| 59 |
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Plate 259 | Salt Creek Canyon photograph |
| 60 |
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Plate 270 | Color photograph looking north from Pine Creek toward the Grand River |
| 61 |
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Plate 275 | Uncompahrgre country, color photograph |
| 62 |
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Plate 280 | Valley of the Blue Creek, photograph |
| 63 |
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Plate 283 | Camp 62 along US Highway 50 and the Little Cimarron River |
| 64 |
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Plate 293 | Elk Mountains, photograph |
| 65 |
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Plate 296 | Salt Creek Canyon, photograph |
| 66 |
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Plate 300 | Desert between Grand and Green River, photograph |
| 67 |
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Plate 303 | Desert between Grand and Green River, photograph |
| 68 |
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Plate 306 | Henry Mountains, photograph |
| 69 |
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Plate 310 | San Rafael Reef and Beckwith Plateau, photograph |
| 70 |
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Plate 313 | Green River country, photograph |
| 71 |
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Plate 318 | Green River and Book Cliffs, photograph |
| 72 |
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Plate 321 | Rock Hills panoramic photograph |
| 73 |
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Plate 324 | White River near the Spanish Trail, photograph |
| 74 |
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Plate 327 | Clever Creek, photograph |
| 75 |
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Plate 330 | Garambulla Creek, photograph |