Title:
The miners pioneer ten commandments of 1849
Creator/Contributor:
Kurz & Allison (active ca. 1906), undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
c1887
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0817--D
Format:
print on canvas mounted on board: lithograph, color
56.6 x 71.6 cm.
Content/Description:
Text of ten commandments surrounded by images depicting life of miners and pioneers including: claim jumping, gambling, chores,
Indians, wagon trains, mining camps, tavern scenes; animals (elephant, donkeys, bears, horses, etc.), women and family life.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Copyrighted 1877 by W.P. Bennett, Gold Hill, Nevada; (LR): Kurz & Allison's art studio,
Chicago, U[nited] S[tates of] A[merica].
Subjects:
Animals;
Camping;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Indians of North America;
Manners & customs;
Miners;
Mining;
Settlers;
Vehicles;
Westward movement;
Women
Genre/Format:
Illustrations;
Lithographs, color