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- GLC#
- GLC08653.03-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1876
- Author/Creator
- Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895
- Title
- A wagoner's shanty
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 etching : b&w Height: 47.9 cm, Width: 60.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Marked "Plate 4." Contains 3 separate images. Upper left image is titled "A wagoner's shanty," and shows a winter camp of a wagoner. The wagoner is chopping a log in front of his log cabin, which has an overhang of crossed branches and brush. At the top of the chimney is a wooden barrel, where smoke is emanating. Two horses are tied to a post in the background. Upper right image is titled "The Deserted Picket-hut" and shows a desolate scene with a tent-like structure covered in dirt. Bottom image is titled "Mud Huts," and shows several huts with smoke emanating from chimneys topped by wooden barrels. A man in the foreground sits on a log bench in front of one of the huts. A clothesline of drying clothes hangs in the foreground as well. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27.7 x 40.3 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Brittle paper and damaged edges. Titles taken from the table of contents of GLC02199.
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