Image of an eye-level landscape view of Mount Shasta and the Cascade Range in Northern California, as seen in the distance from a mountain pass in a forested area with trees, rocks, a stream, and, in the center foreground, a red "California & Oregon Stage Company U.S. Mail" stagecoach pulled by six horses and crowded with male and female passengers both in the coach and riding on its roof; one Chinese passenger has a queue hairstyle. Probable date based on circa date provided in Peters, California on Stone, page 81, and the year of a newspaper article noting, "We have received a very neat and handsome colored lithograph representing a 6-horse stage of the California and Oregon Stage Company, with a view of Mount Shasta in the distance." ("Lithograph" in the Pacific Rural Press, 9 November 1872, page 301). "A. Stein"--text, artist's signature on stone, lower right of image. "Lith. Britton & Rey S.F."--text, bottom right margin. "View of Mount Shasta 14,442 Ft. Above the sea - on C. & O. stage route."--text, bottom center margin "Bradley Barlow. / J.L. Sanderson. / James W. Parker. / Chas. C. Huntley. / Proprietors."--text, bottom left margin. "E.F. Hooker / Superintendent."--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 50.48 x 60.96 cm (19 7/8 x 24 in.)
Mount Shasta (Calif.)--Pictorial works Shasta, Mount (Calif. : Mountain)--Pictorial works Advertising--Transportation Carriages and carts--Pictorial works Chinese Americans--Pictorial works Coaching (Transportation)--Pictorial works Landscapes--Pictorial works Mountains--Pictorial works Postal service--Pictorial works Stagecoach lines Wilderness areas--Pictorial works California & Oregon Stage Company Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Transportation Large Size Carriage and Wagon The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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