Title:
The Rocky Mountains: emigrants crossing the plains
Creator/Contributor:
Palmer, Francis Florabond (Fanny) (1812-1876), British, artist (artist)
Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907), American, lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
c1866
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1446--FR
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
49.5 x 66.7 cm., visible image
Content/Description:
Long train of oxen-drawn wagons cross plains; women and children inside wagons, men ride on horses or walk alongside wagons;
two Indian guides on horseback stand to right; high mountains rise above them.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): F.F. Palmer, del.; (LR): Currier & Ives, lith. N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC): New York, Published by
Currier & Ives, 152, Nassau St[reet]; (LC): Entered... 1866 by Currier & Ives....
Subjects:
Overland journeys to the Pacific;
Settlers;
Vehicles;
West (U.S.);
Westward movement
Genre/Format:
Landscapes;
Lithographs, color