Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Life on the prairie: the trapper's defence [sic] "Fire fight fire"
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creator Name:
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Tait, A. F. (active ca. 1862), artist
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Group Creator Name:
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- Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907), American, lithographer and publisher
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Title:
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Life on the prairie: the trapper's defence [sic] "Fire fight fire"
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Date:
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c1862
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Materials:
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print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
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Dimensions:
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55.7 x 77.3 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 1963.002:1527--FR
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Subject:
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- Animals
- Bison
- Fires
- Fur trade
- Horses
- Hunting
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
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Notes:
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Trappers create backfire and hold frightened horses as wildfire surrounds them; buffalo stampede in distance; pelts and shotguns in foreground.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
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Notes:
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Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Painted by A.F. Tait; (LC, above title): Entered... 1862 by Currier & Ives...New York.(LC, below title): New York, Published by Currier & Ives, 115 Nassau Street; (LR): Lith. Currier & Ives N[ew] Y[ork].
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf7v19p4fj
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