Lewis and Clark Illustrations

The following is a comprehensive listing of illustrations that appear in the Lewis and Clark journals held at the American Philosophical Society (APS), the Missouri Historical Society (MHS), and the Beinecke Library (Yale). Requests for reproduction of materials held by MHS or Yale must be addressed separatedly to those institutions.

This inventory includes low resolution scans of all images held by the APS, along with selected images of the journals themselves, illustrations associated with Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery, and a small selection of journal entries. Many of the images presented here are details of larger files. Images held by MHS or Yale are listed, but not displayed.

The best current edition of the journals of Lewis and Clark is Gary Moulton's multi-volume The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lincoln, Neb.: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1986-1997). In the table below, "Moulton #" refers to the volume and page number on which each illustration is reproduced. "ID #" refers to the volume and/or page number corresponding to the original illustration.

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Title: Confluence of Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
Date: Nov. 15, 1803
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:88
ID #:
 Field Notes 3
Title: Sand bar
Date: Nov. 20, 1803
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 2:96
ID #:
 Eastern Journal
Title: Island
Date: Nov. 20, 1803
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 2:98
ID #:
 Eastern Journal
Title: Island
Date: Nov. 21, 1803
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 2:100
ID #:
 Eastern Journal
Title: Plan of Camp Dubois
Date: Dec. 29, 1803
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:143
ID #:
 Field Notes 1
Title: Confluence of Missouri and Mississippi Rivers
Date: Jan. 3, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:146
ID #:
 Field Notes 4
Title: Sketches of the keelboat
Date: Jan. 21, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:162
ID #:
 Field Notes 7
Title: Sketch of the white pirogue
Date: April 12, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:196
ID #:
 Field Notes 10
Title: Missouri River near the mouth of Little Femme Osage River
Date: May 23, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:247
ID #:
 Field Notes 15
Title: Missouri River near the mouth of Osage River and East
Date: June 1, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:268
ID #:
 Field Notes 17
Title: Manitou on a rock
Date: June 5, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:278
ID #:
 Field Notes 18
Title: Manitou on a rock
Date: June 5, 1804
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 2:280
ID #:
 Codex A:34
Title: Manitou, buffalo, and Indian on a rock
Date: June 7, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:284
ID #:
 Field Notes 19
Title: Missouri River near mouth of Osage River and West
Date: June 13, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:297
ID #:
 Field Notes 18
Title: Missouri River near mouth of Grand River to beyond mouth of Kansas River
Date: July 1, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:337
ID #:
 Field Notes 10
Title: Profile of a boy
Date: August 12, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:473
ID #:
 Field Notes 42
Title: Sketch of a horse
Date: August 19, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 2:491
ID #:
 Field Notes 43
Title: Bon Homme Island on the Missouri River
Date: Sept. 2, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 3:41
ID #:
 Field Notes, 51
Title: Missouri River near present Fort Randall Dam, S.D.
Date: ca. Sept. 9, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 3:59
ID #:
 Field Notes, rev.53
Title: Big Bend of the Missouri River
Date: ca. Sept. 21, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 3:97
ID #:
 Field Notes, 56
Title: Country between the Missouri and Red Rivers
Date: Dec. 17, 1804
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 3:259
ID #:
 Field Notes, 66
Title: War hatchet
Date: Jan. 28, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 3:280
ID #:
 Codex C:158
Title: Battle ax
Date: Feb. 5, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 3:287
ID #:
 Codex C:165
Title: Profile of man with pipe
Date: ca. March 29, 1805
Institution:
 Yale
Moulton #:
 3:323
ID #:
 Field Notes, 64
Title: Mississippi River and tributaries in present Minnesota
Date: n.d. (winter 1804-05)
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 3:366
ID #:
 Codex C:255
Title: "Convolvalist" leaf (Convulvulus sepium, hedge bindweed)
Date: July 17, 1804
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 3:459
ID #:
 Codex R:37
Title: Area about Fort Mandan and North to the Assiniboine River
Date: n.d. (winter 1804-05)
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 3:490
ID #:
 Voorhis Collection
Title: Aspect of the Missouri River
Date: April 28, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 4:83
ID #:
 Voorhis 1
Title: Ibex (Ovis canadensis, bighorn sheep)
Date: May 25, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 4:196
ID #:
 Voorhis 1
Title: Draught of the Falls and portage of the Missouri River (identical to Codex E:132-133)
Date: ca. July 2, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 4:353
ID #:
 Voorhis 1
Title: Great Falls of the Missouri River
Date: ca. July 3, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 4:355
ID #:
 Voorhis 1
Title: "Handsom Falls" (present Rainbow Falls) of the Missouri River
Date: ca. July 3, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 4:357
ID #:
 Voorhis 1
Title: "Upper Falls" (present Black Eagle Falls) of the Missouri River
Date: ca. July 3, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 4:358
ID #:
 Voorhis 1
Title: Draught of the Falls and portage of the Missouri River
Date: ca. July 4, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 4:360
ID #:
 Codex E:132-133
Title: Shoshone smoking pipe
Date: August 13, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 5:82
ID #:
 Codex F:99
Title: Shoshone fish weir
Date: August 21, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 5:136
ID #:
 Codex F:147
Title: Route from Travelers' Rest to Lolo trail
Date: Sept 11-12, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:200
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: On the Lolo trail, Idaho
Date: Sept. 13-16, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:208
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: On the Lolo trail, Idaho
Date: Sept. 16-18, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:212
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: On the Lolo trail, Idaho
Date: Sept. 18-20, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:220
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: On the Lolo trail to Canoe Camp
Date: Sept. 20-Oct. 7, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:221
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Confluence of the Clearwater and Snake Rivers, Idaho-Washington border
Date: ca. Oct. 10, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:254
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Columbia River and affluents, Washington
Date: ca. Oct. 13, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:267
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Indian locales on Columbia River and affluents
Date: ca. Oct. 14, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:270
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Indian groups of Columbia River basin
Date: ca. Oct. 15, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:273
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Indian groups on Columbia River and affluents
Date: ca. Oct 18, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:293
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Columbia River near mouth of Walla Walla River
Date: Oct. 16-18, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:295
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Confluence of Snake and Columbia Rivers
Date: ca. Oct. 18, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 5:297
ID #:
 Codex H:33
Title: Confluence of Snake and Columbia Rivers
Date: ca. Oct. 18, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:299
ID #:
 Voorhis 4
Title: Columbia River near mouth of Umatilla River
Date: ca. Oct. 19, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:302
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Columbia River, area between mouths of Umatilla and John Day Rivers
Date: ca. Oct. 20, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:308
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Columbia River near mouth of John Day River
Date: ca Oct. 20, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:310
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Columbia River near mouth of Deschutes River
Date: ca. Oct. 21, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:316
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Great (Celilo) Falls of the Columbia River
Date: Oct. 22-23, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 5:322
ID #:
 Codex H:1
Title: Great (Celilo) Falls of the Columbia River (identical to Codex H:1)
Date: Oct. 22-23, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:324
ID #:
 Voorhis 4
Title: Long and Short Narrows (The Dalles) of the Columbia River
Date: Oct. 22-28, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 5:330
ID #:
 Codex H:2-3
Title: Long and Short Narrows (The Dalles) of the Columbia River (similar to Codex H:2-3, but inverted)
Date: Oct. 22-28, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:332
ID #:
 Voorhis 4
Title: Shape of a hut door
Date: Oct. 24, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 5:334
ID #:
 Codex H:63
Title: Shape of a hut door
Date: Nov. 1 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:368
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Great Rapids (Cascades) of the Columbia River
Date: Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 5:370
ID #:
 Codex H:4
Title: Great Rapids (Cascades) of the Columbia River (similar to Codex H:4, but inverted)
Date: Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 5:372
ID #:
 Voorhis 4
Title: Mouth of the Columbia River (Cape Disappointment)
Date: Nov. 16-25, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:52
ID #:
 Codex I:152
Title: Flounder (Platichthys stellatus, starry flounder)
Date: Nov. 18, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:63
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Area about Cape Disappointment
Date: Nov. 18, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:64
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Point Adams, Ore.
Date: Dec. 1, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:102
ID #:
 Codex Ia:7
Title: Plan of Fort Clatsop drawn over area of Youngs Bay
Date: Dec. 7, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:110
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Plan of Fort Clatsop
Date: Dec. 7, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:111
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Location of Fort Clatsop
Date: Dec. 17, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:128
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Necanium River, Ore.
Date: Dec. 17, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:129
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Conic hat
Date: Dec. 29, 1805
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:141
ID #:
 Elkskin journal
Title: Conic hat
Date: Dec. 29, 1805
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:143
ID #:
 Codex I:80
Title: Two swords, a bludgeon, and a paddle
Date: Jan. 1, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:152
ID #:
 Codex J:1
Title: Route to the whale site
Date: Jan. 6-10, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:170
ID #:
 Clark's First Draft
Title: Skate (Raja binoculata, big skate)
Date: Jan. 7, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:176
ID #:
 Clark's First Draft
Title: Arrow
Date: Jan. 15, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:207
ID #:
 Codex J:25
Title: Arrow
Date: Jan. 15, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:209
ID #:
 Codex I:119
Title: Bone fishhook and line
Date: Jan. 16, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:212
ID #:
 Codex J:28
Title: Bone fishhook and line
Date: Jan. 16, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:213
ID #:
 Codex I:122
Title: Digging instrument
Date: Jan. 23, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:232
ID #:
 Codex I:135
Title: Digging instrument
Date: Jan. 23, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:234
ID #:
 Codex J:40
Title: Conic hat and double-edged knife
Date: Jan. 29, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:247
ID #:
 Codex I:144
Title: Conic hat and double-edged knife
Date: Jan. 29, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:250
ID #:
 Codex J:48 (Not currently available)
Title: Method of head-flattening and adults with skull deformation
Date: Jan. 30, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:252
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Paddle, small canoe, canoe with high bow, and most common canoe
Date: Feb. 1, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:264
ID #:
 Codex J:52
Title: Canoe with carved images
Date: Feb. 1, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:266
ID #:
 Codex J:53
Title: Paddle, small canoe, and sharp-pointed paddle
Date: Feb. 1, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:268
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Another small canoe, canoe with high bow, and most common canoe (identical to Codex J:52)
Date: Feb. 1, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:269
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Canoe with carved images (identical to Codex J:53)
Date: Feb. 1, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:271
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Stalk and leaves of the shallon (Gaultheria shallon, salal)
Date: Feb. 8, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:289
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Fir leaf (Pseudotsuga taxifolia, Douglas fir)
Date: Feb. 9, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:291
ID #:
 Codex J:65
Title: Pine cone (Picea sitchensis, Sitka spruce) (similar to Codex J:83, reversed)
Date: Feb. 9, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:292
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Maple leaf (Acer circinatum, vine maple)
Date: Feb. 10, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:294
ID #:
 Codex J:66
Title: Maple leaf (Acer circinatum, vine maple) (identical to Codex J:66)
Date: Feb. 10, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:296
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Evergreen shrub leaf (Berberis aquifolium, Oregon grape)
Date: Feb. 12, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:300
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Evergreen shrub leaf (Berberis nervosa, Dull Oregon grape)
Date: Feb. 12, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:301
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Fern leaf (Polystichum munitum, Christmas fern)
Date: Feb. 13, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:304
ID #:
 Codex J:71
Title: Fern leaf (Polystichum munitum, Christmas fern) (similar to Codex J:71 but reversed)
Date: Feb. 13, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:306
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Head of a vulture (Gymnops californianus, California condor) (identical to Codex J:80)
Date: Feb. 16, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:320
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Head of a vulture (Gymnops californianus, California condor)
Date: Feb. 16, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:323
ID #:
 Codex J:80
Title: Pine cone (Picea sitchensis, Sitka spruce)
Date: Feb. 18, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:326
ID #:
 Codex J:83
Title: Eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus)
Date: Feb. 24, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:343
ID #:
 Codex J:93
Title: Eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus) (identical to Codex J:93)
Date: Feb. 24, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:350
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Head of the Cock of the Plains (Centrocerus urophasianus, sage grouse)
Date: March 2, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:369
ID #:
 Codex J:107
Title: Cock of the Plains (Centrocerus urophasianus, sage grouse) (see also Codex J:107)
Date: March 2, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:372
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Head of a white gull (Fulmarus glacialis, northern fulmar)
Date: March 7, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:386
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Head of a white gull (Fulmarus glacialis, northern fulmar)
Date: March 7, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:389
ID #:
 Codex J:115
Title: Head of a brant (Anser albifrons, greater white-fronted goose)
Date: March 15, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:417
ID #:
 Codex J:131
Title: Head of a brant (Anser albifrons, greater white-fronted goose
Date: March 15, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:419
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: White salmon trout (Oncorhynchus kisutch, coho salmon)
Date: March 16, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:422
ID #:
 Codex J:133
Title: White salmon trout (Oncorhynchus kisutch, coho salmon)
Date: March 16, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 6:424
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Tongue Point, Ore.
Date: Winter 1805-1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 6:460
ID #:
 Codex I:11
Title: Iron scimitar
Date: March 29, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 7:37
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Two views of a canoe
Date: April 2, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 7:58
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Confluence of Willamette and Columbia Rivers and environs
Date: April 3, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 7:63
ID #:
 Codex K:28-29
Title: Plan of a Chinookan house (similar to Codex K:39)
Date: April 3, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 7:65
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Confluence of Willamette and Columbia Rivers and environs
Date: April 3, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 7:69
ID #:
 Voorhis 2
Title: Columbia, Missouri, and Yellowstone Rivers and their connections
Date: April 4, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 7:72-73
ID #:
 Voorhis 3
Title: Two views of a canoe
Date: April 6, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 7:80
ID #:
 Codex K:33
Title: Plan of a Chinookan house
Date: April 6, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 7:85
ID #:
 Codex K:39
Title: Game bone
Date: April 18, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 7:138
ID #:
 Voorhis first draft fragment
Title: Confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers and environs
Date: April 18-20, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 7:150
ID #:
 Voorhis 3
Title: Bone fishhook
Date: April 26, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 7:170
ID #:
 Codex K:83
Title: Bone fishhook
Date: April 26, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 7:172
ID #:
 Voorhis 3
Title: Confluence of Snake and Columbia Rivers and environs by Yellepit
Date: April 27, 806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 7:175
ID #:
 Astronomy notebook
Title: Fish weir
Date: April 29, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 7:185
ID #:
 Voorhis 3
Title: Fish net
Date: May 11, 1806
Institution:
 MHS
Moulton #:
 7:246
ID #:
 Voorhis 3
Title: Fish net
Date: May 18, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 7:270
ID #:
 Codex K:139
Title: Iron scimitar
Date: March 29, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 7:29
ID #:
 Codex K:14
Title: Snake and Missouri Rivers and their connections
Date: May 28-31, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 7:316-317
ID #:
 Codex M:1-2
Title: Monture (Seaman's) Creek, Powell Co., Mont.
Date: July 5, 1806
Institution:
 APS
Moulton #:
 8: