Emigrants crossing the plains

Description

Title: Emigrants crossing the plains
Creator: Hall, Henry Bryan, active 1850-1900, artist
Contributor: Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888, artist.
D. Appleton and Company, publisher.
Published / Created: [1869]
Copyright Date: ©1869
Publication Place: New York and United States New York (State) New York
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.
Abstract: Engraving depicts European Americans in wagon train on hilly trail. Covered wagons are drawn by oxen, while loose cattle and a dog wander between them. One couple is walking past rocks at left, a mounted man in foreground leads the way while another man holding long whip stands alongside front wagon. In background, snowy mountain peaks
Description: BEIN BrSide4o Zc10 869ha: On sheet 22.3 x 29.4 cm. Hand colored.
Title from caption below image.
Printed below image: Entered according to act of Congress, A.D. 1869, by D. Appleton & Co. in the clerk's office of the district court for the southern district of N.Y.
Extent: 1 print : 14.4 x 21.5 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Steel engravings
Material: hand colored ;, paper, ink, engraving, and single sided
Resource Type: still image and text
Subject (Topic): Wagon trains
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Subjects: Wagon trains > Pictorial works
Overland journeys to the Pacific > Pictorial works

Access: Public
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