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 cross "the Isthmus"
Date:
c1849
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
Dimensions:
35.6 x 50.6 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1445--C
Subject:
- Animals
- Central America
- Gold rushes
- Indigenous peoples
- Panama
- Vessels
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Satirical image of men heading for California gold fields; crowded onto overloaded barges and mules; crocodile at left; natives sell mules and pilot boats.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier; (LC, above title): Entered... 1849 by N. Currier... New York; (LR): 152 Nassau St[reet], cor[ner] of Spruce [Street], N[ew] Y[ork].
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf7d5nb7x x

The way they cross "the Isthmus"