Drawing
- Title:
- Tracking up The Liardriver
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 1997.016.23
- Creator:
- Drews, William
- Place of Origin:
- Klondike
- Date:
- 1898
- Description:
- Drawing. Tracking up The Liardriver, by William Drews, 1898. Pencil on paper. The paper is divided into an upper drawing and a lower drawing, separated by a line. Both images depict a forested landscape, with men on shore rope towing two boats. One boat has a man steering from the back with a long oar; the boat is heavily loaded with sacks. There are several down trees. Inscription on upper image, lower: "1898. Tracking up the Liardriver. 'round a point' WDREWS". The lower image is titled, "1898. Tracking up the Liardriver'a cut bank' Wm. Drews". Unframed
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7.8 W-5 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of a collections of items from Eaton / French family of Danville, NH, donated by descendant, Halcyon Hobbs Springer (b.1932), Boxford, MA. Captain Alpheus K. Brown (1841-1905) of Manchester, NH was a gold prospector with William Drews on the Liard River in the Klondike, 1898-1899.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Halcyon Hobbs Springer, in Memory of her grandmother, Minnie Douglas Smith
- Subjects:
- Boats, Liard River, Gold rushes, Gold miners, Gold mining
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