Title:
The way they raise a California outfit
Creator/Contributor:
Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
c1849
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1444--C
Format:
print on paper mounted on board: lithograph
51 x 35.4 cm.
Content/Description:
Man dressed in shabby clothes holds up two scrawny chicken offering them for sale to raise money to go to California. Woman
sits in wagon nearby.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier, 152 Nassau St[reet], cor[ner] of Spruce [Street],
N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC, below image): Entered... 1849 by N. Currier... New York.
Subjects:
Overland journeys to the Pacific;
Westward movement
Genre/Format:
Cartoons (Commentary);
Lithographs