Image / The way they get married in California

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Title: The way they get married in California
Creator: Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1850]
Publication Information: N[ew] Y[ork] : N. Currier
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2007-0434.
Cartoon showing a plump woman sitting on a table surrounded by thirteen men of various sizes and shapes; captions above six of the men commenting about the woman.
Negative, no. 28,756 (4 x 5 in.) b/w, color transparency.
Type: image
Format: Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 10 1/2 x 17 3/8 in. image on 13 7/8 x 21 5/8 in. sheet.
Identifier: (C)001387749CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-1047
Language: English
Subject: Women--California
Marriage proposals--California
Bachelors--California
Prints
Lithographs
Cartoons (Commentary)
Place: California

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