Image / Emigrants crossing the plains

View source image on the Online Archive of California.

Get Citation

Have a question about this item?

Contact Owner

Item information. View source record on the Online Archive of California.

Title: Emigrants crossing the plains
Creator: Darley, Felix Octavius Carr (1822-1888), American, artist Hall, H. B. (active ca. 1869), engraver D. Appleton & Co. (active ca. 1873), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1869
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: Wagon train with scout on horseback leading covered wagons drawn by oxen; pioneer stands before wagon with family inside; calves, cattle, dogs, wagons, and other figures in landscape.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): F.O.C. Darley, fecit.; (LC, above title): Entered... 1869 by D. Appleton & Co... New York; (LR): H.B. Hall, Jr., sc.; (LC, below title): New York, D. Appleton & Co.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving, hand colored 23.9 x 32.1 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7b69p4h9
BANC PIC 1963.002:1436--B
Subject: Animals
Frontier & pioneer life
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Settlers
Vehicles
West (U.S.)
Westward movement
Women

About the collections in Calisphere

Learn more about the collections in Calisphere. View our statement on digital primary resources.

Copyright, permissions, and use

If you're wondering about permissions and what you can do with this item, a good starting point is the "rights information" on this page. See our terms of use for more tips.

Share your story

Has Calisphere helped you advance your research, complete a project, or find something meaningful? We'd love to hear about it; please send us a message.