Sketchbook

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{"value"=>"<p>Volume contains 76 sketches, all in pen, a few water color and. pencil, mainly landscapes. Places are usually named.</p>"}

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1. Commerce, first high land above Cairo, pen sketch
2. Mississippi River below Cairo
3. Turn of the Mississippi 50 miles above Cape Girardeau
4. Illinois River at Kingston 211 miles above St. Louis
5. Peoria, Illinois River at sunset
6. Mouth of Maumee River below Toledo. Lake Erie
7. Lighthouse Maumee Bay, Lake Erie
8. Rapids on the Canada side, Niagara
9. Rapids between Goat and Moss Island, Niagara
10. Canadian and American Falls, Niagara from the Ferry Slips
11. French Creek, Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River, Sunrise
12. St. Lawrence River near Brockville
13. Fountain and Masonic Hall, Boston Common, rest of date cut off
14. Bridge and unfinished works at the "Prison" Lawrence, Mass
15. Point Alderton, Entrance to Boston, Harbour
16. Fort Warren and Boston Harbour from Hull, Mass
17. Fresh Pond near Boston, Mass
18. Observatory and Catholic Church, Charles River, etc. Cambridge Mass. Brighton
19. Hobscot Hill Framingham, Mass
20. Distant view of village of Framingham, Mass
21. Sudbury River at Saxonville, Mass
22. Sylvan Bridge, Sudbury, River, Mass
23. Cochituate Pond, Mass
24. Railroad Bridge, Saxonville, Mass
25. Purple gentian, Saxonville, Mass
26. Saxonville, Mass. from the South East
27. Chestnut tree and Ferns near Saxonville, Mass
28. Cochituate Pond and Gatehouse, Mass
29. Pond at Saxonville, Mass
30. Sudbury Rive" above Saxonville, Mass
31. From the Grave Yard Saxonville, Mass
32. Sudbury River below Saxonville
33. Architectural sketch "Bracket and Chimney of Building opposite, pen and ink sketch
34. Framingham Village Mass. from the Saxonville Road
35. Near Saxonville, Mass
36. Near Saxonville, Mass
37. Episcopal Church, Brookline, Mass
38. Long Island Gallop Island and Fort Warren, Boston Harbour
39. Plum Island Lights Mouth of Merrimac
40. Plum Island Beach near Newbury port, Mass
41. City of Boston from the harbour
42. Boston Harbour from Quincy quarries showing Long Island, Galloo Island, Georges Island, Great Brewster, the Light House and Pettick's Island
43. Stone Quarries at Quincy, Mass. for a column is single block- on contract with the new Custom House New Orleans
44. Approach to the Quarries at Quincy, Mass by Bryan's old Rail ad
45. Customs House, Boston, Mass
46. Sketch of a ship
47. Bluff Head, Apple Island from the Oyster Banks, Boston Harbour
48. Barberry, a pen and ink sketch
49. Savin Hill and Blue Hills from South Boston
50. Egg Rock from N. E. Point of Nahant, Mass
51. Trap Rock at Nahant, North Side
52. Cove on South Shore at Nahant
53. Horse Ferry, Ohio River, Thick mist
54. Ohio River
55. Ohio River
56. Ohio River, 7 miles above Madison, La
57. Corn Island, Falls of the Ohio at Louisville, Ky
58. Passing through the Canal at Louisville by starlight
59. Limestone Rocks, Ohio River
60. Cairo, Junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
61. Tavern at Cairo, Mouth of the Ohio
62. Bluff banks near Randolph, Mississippi River 65 miles above Memphis
63. Mississippi River near Memphis, deck of the Susquehanna
64. Diving Bell at Bayou Tunica, Mississippi River
65. Approach to Baton Rouge State Capitol of Louisiana, U. S. Arsenal Grounds etc., 5 P. M
66. Mississippi River, 52 miles below New Orleans
67. Fort Livingston on the Gulf of Mexico, Barataria, Louisiana
68. River and Levee at New Orleans from the North East Angle of New Custom House 4th story
69. Oblique Section thro' one of the ground arches New Custom House New Orleans. The work was cut thro'
70. Bhurtpore Cottage, near New Haven in 1839, West Rock etc. our last home at the North
71. Wyton Bar near Hull, Yorks Wyton House in the distance. Our last home in England
72. Town of Lynn from Nahant
73. Chelsea Beach
74. Old Houses Corner Ann and Market Square, Boston erected 1680 Cupola of Fannuil Hall
75. Tombs of Webster and Oxnard, Mt. Auburn near Boston, Mass
76. Wreck of the "Princess", 20 miles below Baton Rouge, La
77. Unidentified, large stone building with tile roof
78. Unidentified large stone building with tile roof
79. Unidentified, two building one a mill beside the sea or a lake. Also two boats tied to a tree stump
80. Unidentified, timbered buildings with thatched roofs
81. Roger's Slide, Lake George [N. Y.]
82. Unidentified, stone house with thatched roof by a stream