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Title: Crossing the Isthmus [Panama]
Creator: Marryat, Francis Samuel (1826-1855), British, artist Brandard, J., lithographer M. & N. Hanhart (active ca. 1851-ca. 1857), printer
Date Created and/or Issued: [1855]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
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Description: Chaotic scene showing travelers making way through tropical landscape; donkeys and horses throw passengers and drop cargo; natives carry westerners on their backs and pull their dogs; woman among group.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): F. Marryat; (LC, below title): M. & N. Hanhart, impt.; (LR): J. Brandard. From "Mountains and molehills, or Recollections of a burnt journal" by Frank Marryat (London, 1855).
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, color 13.5 x 18.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7w1011n9
BANC PIC 1963.002:1440:8--A
Subject: Central America
Indigenous peoples
Packtrains
Panama
Voyages to the Pacific
Women

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