Title:
Things as they are
Creator/Contributor:
Perkins, artist (artist)
Serrell & Perkins (active ca. 1850), lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Elton, Robert H. (active ca. 1848-ca. 1850), undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
[not before 1849]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0446--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph
34 x 46.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Satirical image of Gold Rush in California showing armed men digging, fighting foreigners, etc; caricature of President James
K. Polk as bird carrying pick and bag of money flies with other bird-men (his cabinet) towards California. Dialog balloons.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): Lith. & pub. by Serrell & Perkins 75 Nassau St[reet], N[ew] Y[ork]; (LR, within
image): Perkins. Date 1849 within image.
Subjects:
Equipment;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Manners & customs;
Mining
Genre/Format:
Caricatures;
Cartoons (Commentary);
Lithographs