Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Ives J.M.
Creator Name:
Palmer, F. (Fanny), 1812-1876
Group Creator Name:
- Currier & Ives
Creator Role:
lithographer
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
Across the Continent : "Westward the course of empire takes its way"
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1530--D
Extent:
1 print : lithograph, hand colored ; 60.4 x 81.8 cm.
Scope:
Rail line through small town of log buildings with train in center (Through Line New York - San Francisco). Scene includes men at work in woods; women and children near a public school, church and other buildings; covered wagons being pulled by oxen; a wagon train on trail in distance; and Indians on horses to right.
Heading:
Marks/Inscriptions
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): J.M. Ives, Del.; (LC) Entered according to act of Congress in the year AD 1868 by Currier & Ives...; (LR): Drawn by F.F. Palmer; (LC below title): New York Pub. by Currier & Ives. 125 Nassau Street.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/kt8d5nb39 b

Across the Continent : "Westward the course of empire takes its way"