Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Westward the course of empire takes its way
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Group Creator Name:
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- W.J. Morgan & Co., lithographer
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Title:
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Westward the course of empire takes its way
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Date:
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[18--]
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Materials:
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print on paper mounted on paper: lithograph, color
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Dimensions:
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56.7 x 83 cm.
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Current Location:
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Bancroft Library.
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Address:
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Berkeley, California 94720-6000
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Object ID:
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BANC PIC 1963.002:0743--E
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Subject:
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- Animals
- Clothing & dress
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Horses
- Overland
journeys to the Pacific
- Settlers
- Westward movement
- Women
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
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Notes:
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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:
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Notes:
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Printed title (UL). Printed (LR): W.J. Morgan & Co., lith., Cleve[land].
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf767nb7xm
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