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 go to California
Date:
c1849
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph
Dimensions:
29.7 x 45.8 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1546--B
Subject:
- Gold rushes
- Harbors
- Miners
- Vehicles
- Vessels
- Voyages to the
Pacific
- Westward movement
- Cartoons (Commentary)
- Lithographs
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Dock with sailing ship departing as crowd of miners attempt to jump aboard; imaginary vehicles and airboats, etc. in air carrying miners to California.
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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... N[ew] Y[ork].; (LR): 152 Nassau St[reet] cor[ner] of Spruce, N[ew] Y[ork]. Dialog captions.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf2r29p2j x

The way they go to California