1991 -- the Santa Cruz, CA Historical
Trust in association with
the.McPherson
Center for Art and History
Size: 10 in. x 18 in.
Scale: 1/2 in. = 1 ft. (1/24th scale)
Figures: none
Features: Traveling Exhibit for Elementary School Use, true willow
cover bows; scale artifacts loaded into the wagon.
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The Santa Cruz, CA
Historical Trust exists in association with the McPherson Center for Art
and History, also in Santa Cruz, California. The Historical Trust was seeking
a traveling exhibit about the "Forty-niner's" migration to California
that could be taken to elementary and middle schools in the area. The goal
was to provide insight about the process of moving an entire family two
thousand miles across the country in the mid-eighteen hundreds, limited
to what could be carried in a 'covered wagon' about three feet wide and
eleven feet long. The diorama shows the wagon, with its canvas cover partially
rolled back, providing good visual access to the items in the wagon. The
daily use items are shown about the tent and campfire, where the day is
just starting. The immigrants themselves are assumed to be off at the creek
nearby, or otherwise occupied. Various tools are also in evidence, including
the wagon jack, an artful construct of cast iron parts and a hardwood body,
held together with wrought-iron straps and rivets. |
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