Click image for larger view
Title:
Across the Continent : "Westward the course of empire takes its way"
Description:
Content/DescriptionRail line through small town of log buildings with train in center (Through Line New York - San Francisco).
Scene includes men at work in woods; women and children near a public school, church and other buildings; covered wagons being
pulled by oxen; a wagon train on trail in distance; and Indians on horses to right.
Creator/Contributor:
Palmer, F. (Fanny), 1812-1876, artist
Currier & Ives, publisher
Ives J.M., lithographer
Date:
c1868
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
More information about this image