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Title: The Rocky Mountains: emigrants crossing the plains
Creator: Palmer, Francis Florabond (Fanny) (1812-1876), British, artist Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907), American, lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1866
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: Long train of oxen-drawn wagons cross plains; women and children inside wagons, men ride on horses or walk alongside wagons; two Indian guides on horseback stand to right; high mountains rise above them.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): F.F. Palmer, del.; (LR): Currier & Ives, lith. N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC): New York, Published by Currier & Ives, 152, Nassau St[reet]; (LC): Entered... 1866 by Currier & Ives....
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 49.5 x 66.7 cm., visible image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4j49p393
BANC PIC 1963.002:1446--FR
Subject: Overland journeys to the Pacific
Settlers
Vehicles
West (U.S.)
Westward movement

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