Title:
The way they go to California
Creator/Contributor:
Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
c1849
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1546--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph
29.7 x 45.8 cm.
Content/Description:
Dock with sailing ship departing as crowd of miners attempt to jump aboard; imaginary vehicles and airboats, etc. in air carrying
miners to California.
Notes/Inscriptions:
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.
Subjects:
Gold rushes;
Harbors;
Miners;
Vehicles;
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific;
Westward movement
Genre/Format:
Cartoons (Commentary);
Lithographs