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Title: The way they go to California
Creator: Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1849
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: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Dock with sailing ship departing as crowd of miners attempt to jump aboard; imaginary vehicles and airboats, etc. in air carrying miners to California.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier; (LC, above title): Entered... 1849 by N. Currier... N[ew] Y[ork].; (LR): 152 Nassau St[reet] cor[ner] of Spruce, N[ew] Y[ork]. Dialog captions.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 29.7 x 45.8 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2r29p2jx
BANC PIC 1963.002:1546--B
Subject: Gold rushes
Harbors
Miners
Vehicles
Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific
Westward movement

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