Attractive peach- tinted plate Gunnison's Island Eastern Shore, Looking North, Great Salt Lake. Very clean plate showing a variety of birds, including pelicans on the island. From Stansbury's 1853 Exploration and Survey of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Howard Stansbury, a Captain and topographical engineer, was assigned in to survey the region of the Great Salt Lake in search of a possible transcontinental railway route and of a better route between Fort Bridger (Wyoming) and Salt Lake City (Utah).
Gunnison's Island Eastern Shore, Stansbury, 1853
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Gunnison's Island Eastern Shore, Looking North, Great Salt Lake, from Stansbury's 1853 Report
