H. B. Co. Fort Langley, left bank of Fraser River. Langley Buttes in the distance
between 1857 and 1862 National Archives and Records Administration
About this artwork
This watercolor depicts the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Langley on the Fraser River, featuring a rustic wooden structure with a stockade fence against a backdrop of distant mountains. The work serves as a topographical and historical record from the era of the Northwestern Boundary Survey.
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James Madison Alden was a topographical artist who accompanied the United States Northwest Boundary Commission, tasked with surveying the border between British North America and the United States. His detailed watercolors provide some of the earliest and most accurate visual accounts of life and trade in the Pacific Northwest frontier during the mid-19th century.
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H. B. Co. Fort Langley, left bank of Fraser River. Langley Buttes in the distance
James Alden, between 1857 and 1862
