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Title: The overland mail route to California (4 views)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1858
Publication Information: New York, N.Y. : Frank Leslie
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2008-0824
PRINTS-F-SIZE: MAIL SERVICE: OVERLAND
Article accompanied by map and images of overland route to California.
View 1 (2008-0824). "Map of the overland mail route from St. Louis and Memphis to San Francisco" -- view 2 (2008-0825). "Overland mail route - crossing the Pecos River". Shows river, two men on right bank holding ropes crossing the river to the wagon and men on left bank. Passing mail bags from one bank to the other -- view 3 (2008-0826). "The prairie dog" -- view 4 (2008-0827). "Overland mail - first meeting of the coaches in Guadalupe Pass". Shows rocky road, two coaches with horses, lanterns and drivers coming towards each other.
Pages extracted from: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, Nov. 27, 1858, pg. 405-408.
Type: image
Format: Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 4 prints : lithograph ; 16 1/4 x 22 7/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001388865CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2174
Subject: Mail wagons--West (U.S.)
Stagecoaches--West (U.S.)
Prairie dogs
Fords (Stream crossings)--Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)
Passes (Landforms)--West (U.S.)
West (U.S.)--Pictorial works
Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)--Pictorial works
Prints
Lithographs
Maps
Place: West (U.S.)
Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)

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