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Title: Westward the course of empire takes its way
Creator: W.J. Morgan & Co., lithographer
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: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Large group of emigrants halt on mountain pass to observe valley below. Woman with children in center, man above her gestures towards prospect. Pioneers on horseback carrying rifles; families in covered wagons.
Printed title (UL). Printed (LR): W.J. Morgan & Co., lith., Cleve[land].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on paper: lithograph, color 56.7 x 83 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf767nb7xm
BANC PIC 1963.002:0743--E
Subject: Animals
Clothing & dress
Frontier & pioneer life
Horses
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Settlers
Westward movement
Women

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