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