Title:
Pioneer Stage Company: from Sacramento [California] to Virginia [City, Nevada]
Creator/Contributor:
Baker, George Holbrook (1827-1906), American, lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
[18--]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0317--C
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
44 x 59.1 cm.
Content/Description:
Stagecoach pulled by six horses in forest en route from California to Nevada; two story wooden buildings at left; Lake Tahoe,
and mountains in distance. Louis McLane & Co. on driver's box.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): Pioneer Stage Company/from Sacramento to Virginia [City], carrying the great overland mail & Wells, Fargo
& Co. Express/this route affords a fine view of lake Bigler or Tahoe, running for twenty miles along its shores. Printed (LR):
Geo[rge] H. Baker, Lith.
Subjects:
Animals;
California, Northern;
Horses;
Lakes & ponds;
Sacramento (Calif.);
Vehicles
Genre/Format:
Advertisements;
Lithographs, color