Cutting and Stone Pyramid on the 49th Parallel, at Kensenehn, Looking West.
Photograph
ca. 1860-1 (photographed)
ca. 1860-1 (photographed)
| Artist/Maker |
In 1856 the War Department appointed the South Kensington Museum photographer Charles Thurston Thompson to teach photography to the Royal Engineers. On one expedition these soldier-photographers documented the border between the USA and Canada. From the crest of the Rockies westwards along the 49th Parallel to the coast, they painstakingly recorded everything that crossed their path, producing 'one of the earliest signifcant body of photographs made in the Pacific Northwest'.
Object details
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| Title | Cutting and Stone Pyramid on the 49th Parallel, at Kensenehn, Looking West. |
| Materials and techniques | Albumen print from wet collodion-on-glass negative |
| Brief description | 'Cutting and Stone Pyramid on the 49th Parallel', photograph by the Royal Engineers, North America, ca. 1860-1 |
| Physical description | Photograph of a stone pyramid. |
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| Gallery label | In 1856, the British War Department appointed the South Kensington Museum’s official photographer, Charles Thurston Thompson, to teach photography to the Royal Engineers corps. On one expedition, these soldier-photographers documented the establishment of the boundary between Canada and the USA. From the crest of the Rockies westwards along the 49th Parallel to the coast, the Americans and British marked the border by slashing swaths of forest and building up stone cairns on the ground.(May 2023) |
| Credit line | Received from the Foreign Office 1863 |
| Production | Photographed by a Royal Engineers photographer on a U.S.-Canada Border Survey. |
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| Summary | In 1856 the War Department appointed the South Kensington Museum photographer Charles Thurston Thompson to teach photography to the Royal Engineers. On one expedition these soldier-photographers documented the border between the USA and Canada. From the crest of the Rockies westwards along the 49th Parallel to the coast, they painstakingly recorded everything that crossed their path, producing 'one of the earliest signifcant body of photographs made in the Pacific Northwest'. |
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| Accession number | 40097 |
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| Record created | October 17, 2008 |
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