Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher
Creator Role:
lithographer and publisher
Title:
The way they raise a California outfit
Date:
c1849
Materials:
print on paper mounted on board: lithograph
Dimensions:
51 x 35.4 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1444--C
Subject:
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Westward movement
- Cartoons (Commentary)
- Lithographs
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Man dressed in shabby clothes holds up two scrawny chicken offering them for sale to raise money to go to California. Woman sits in wagon nearby.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier, 152 Nassau St[reet], cor[ner] of Spruce [Street], N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC, below image): Entered... 1849 by N. Currier... New York.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf487008j t

The way they raise a California outfit