Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Group Creator Name:
- W.J. Morgan & Co., lithographer
Title:
Westward the course of empire takes its way
Date:
[18--]
Materials:
print on paper mounted on paper: lithograph, color
Dimensions:
56.7 x 83 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0743--E
Subject:
- Animals
- Clothing & dress
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Horses
- Overland
journeys to the Pacific
- Settlers
- Westward movement
- Women
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
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.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (UL). Printed (LR): W.J. Morgan & Co., lith., Cleve[land].
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf767nb7x m

Westward the course of empire takes its way