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Title
California emigrants, the last day on the plains
Creator
Andrew, John (1815-1875), British, artist
Date Created and/or Issued
[18--]
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
Men, women, and children camping by campfire; man slaughtering deer in center, Indian standing by; man on horseback blowing horn to right; several men with rifles. Oxen-drawn wagons and mountains in distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): John Andrew.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper mounted on board: engraving, hand colored 37.3 x 56.9 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2z09p110
BANC PIC 1963.002:0742--C
Subject
Animals
Arms & armaments
Camping
Frontier & pioneer life
Horses
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Settlers
West (U.S.)
Westward movement

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