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Title: [Overland mail from Port Smith, Arkansas, for the Pacific Coast]
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1858
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: Coach drawn by two pairs of horses passes through town as groups of people watch. Sign on coach reads: Overland Mail Company.
Printed title (LC): The overland mail, the start from Port Smith, Arkansas, for the Pacific Coast, first coach driven by John Butterfield, Jr.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving, hand colored 18.9 x 27.1 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3v19p2qg
BANC PIC 1963.002:0474--A
Subject: Animals
Horses
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Vehicles
West (U.S.)
Westward movement

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