Sketchbook

Title:

The Arkansas Traveller

Object Name:

Sketchbook

Object ID:

1968.500

Creator:

Webber, Henry Green (1830-1873)

Place of Origin:

Arkansas/Oklahoma

Date:

1865-1873

Description:

Sketchbook by Henry Green Webber (1830-1873) of Charlestown, NH. Depicts a surveying trip on the Arkansas River. Drawings with wash colors, mostly brown. Hard cover, black paper with gold edging on pages, titled "SKETCH-BOOK" on cover. First page written in ink on flyleaf, "Sketches made by / Henry Green Webber / of Charlestown N.H." 46 pages in total. Frontispiece: drawing of riverboat, titled "THE / ARKANSAS / TRAVELLER.", with American flag and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flag. Labeled sketches are "Les Mamelles & Natural Steps", "Fourche la Feve Bluffs", "Petit Jean Mt. & River", "Military Inspection" (African-American woman in front of log cabin), "Magazine Mountain", "Morrison's Bluff", unnamed cemetery [Fort Gibson, OK] with headstone of Lieut. Richard H. Long (1822-1849), "Hospital", "Moving" (four men in rowboat), "Bean Time in Hospital Feb. 22nd" (four men by fire in front of tent during snowstorm), "Mouth of Illinois", "Mr. Lo and family" in front of log cabin with dogs and farm animals), "Cavinoil Mountain Round Mountain", "Old Fort Coffee", "Old Barracks Fort Coffee", "Now dam you go straight" (woman plowing with mule), "Emigrant's Cabin", "Dardanelle Rock", "Arkansas River sketched by a steamboat", and "Arkansas River as we found it". Pencil sketches on the last few pages are of four images of a costumed classical female, some kind of architectural classical building with god-like figure, piano notes, and bars of music.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-6.25 W-9.65 D-0.5 inches

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection

People:

Webber, Henry Green (1830-1873)

Subjects:

Arkansas River, Magazine Mountain, Arkansas, Sketchbooks, Riverboats, Rivers, Surveying, Surveyors, Bluffs, Rock formations, Rowboats, African Americans