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Title
A check: "Keep your distance!"
Creator
Tait, A. F. (active ca. 1862), artist Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued
c1853
Publication Information
Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information
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Description
Trapper wearing buckskin on horseback aims rifle at Indians in distance; another trapper drives pack animals away from scene. Plains setting.
Printed title (LC). Printed [LL]: Painted by A.F. Tait; (LC): Entered... 1853 by N. Currier... New York; (LR): Lith. of N. Currier, N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC, below title): Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau St[reet], New York.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 46.4 x 63.5 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2580078x
BANC PIC 1963.002:0804--D
Subject
Animals
Frontier & pioneer life
Fur trade
Horses
Hunting
West (U.S.)

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