Title:
Overland Mail Company: Bradley, Barlow & J.L. Sanderson, proprietors
Creator/Contributor:
Holderting, [G.?], artist (artist)
Woodward, Tiernan & Hale, undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
[18--]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1404--D
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
49.2 x 66.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Stagecoach of Overland Mail Company pulled by six horses through wooded landscape; numerous men and women in and several men
on top of coach including two Chinese at rear; three trunks in rack read 'Kit Carson', 'S.B. Maxwell', and 'Col. Bent'. Tall,
snow-capped Uncompahgre Mountain, Colorado, in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Signature (LR): [G?] Holderting. Printed (LL): Woodward, Tiernan & Hale, S[ain]t Louis [Missouri]/This
is the only stage line running to all points in New Mexico and the San Juan Mining District in Sounthern Colorado, in the
connection with the Denver & Rio Grande R'y; (LC, below title): Bradley, Barlow & J.L. Sanderson, proprietors/view of Uncompahgre
Mountain, 14,400 f[ee]t above the sea, on overland stage route.
Subjects:
Chinese;
Colorado;
Horses;
Overland journeys to the Pacific;
Vehicles
Genre/Format:
Advertisements;
Landscapes;
Lithographs, color