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.
Title
Across the Continent : "Westward the course of empire takes its way"
Published
c1868
Full Collection Name
Framed items from the collections of The Bancroft Library
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1963.002:1530--D
Type
Image
Extent
1 print : lithograph, hand colored ; 60.4 x 81.8 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): J.M. Ives, Del.; (LC) Entered according to act of Congress in the year AD 1868 by Currier & Ives...; (LR): Drawn by F.F. Palmer; (LC below title): New York Pub. by Currier & Ives. 125 Nassau Street.
Provenance
Acquisition InformationHoneyman Collection.
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