Image of a female allegorical figure leading trains, covered wagons, coaches and prospectors westward across America; Native American Indians, bears, bison, and other wildlife proceed westward ahead of the American expansion at left. Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; Stafford & Co. designed this print after the 1872 painting American Progress by John Gast, and they moved from Nottingham to Netherfield in 1883/1884. "Stafford & Co. Nottingham."--text, bottom left margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 wood engraving : color printed ; overall 93.66 x 70.01 cm (36 7/8 x 27 9/16 in.)
Animals--Pictorial works Horse-drawn vehicles--Pictorial works Indians of North America--Pictorial works Railroad trains--Pictorial works Wagons--Pictorial works Women--Pictorial works Relief prints--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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