Title:
The way they come to California
Creator/Contributor:
Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
c1849
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1547--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph
31.4 x 46.6 cm.
Content/Description:
Coast with sailing ship departing; crowd of starving, tattered miners carry sacks of gold clamor to get aboard; tents on shore.
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].
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Camping;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Miners;
Vessels
Genre/Format:
Cartoons (Commentary);
Lithographs