Title:
[Overland Mail Route to California]
Creator/Contributor:
Carter, W. D. (active 1866), printer (printer)
Keith, William (1839-1911), Scottish, undetermined (undetermined)
Eastman, Harrison (1823-1886), American, undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
1866
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0941--B
Format:
print on heavy paper: engraving and letterpress
35.6 x 27.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Broadside poster advertising overland stage from Oregon to Sacramento, with connecting stages to Southern Oregon and Northern
California mining towns. Vignette of stagecoach being pulled by team of six horses.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Title based on printed text within image. Printed (UC): Overland Mail Route to California/Through in six days to Sacramento/...Oregon
line of stage coaches... H.W. Corbett & Co., Proprietors Oregon Stage Line. Portland, July 19, 1866. Printed (LL, within image):
H. Eastman; (LR, within image) W. Ke[i]th.; (on stagecoach): California Stage Comp[an]y. Attribution to W.D. Carter based
on comparison with
Subjects:
Overland journeys to the Pacific;
Vehicles
Genre/Format:
Advertisements;
Broadsides;
Engravings;
Woodcuts