A grotesque caricature attacking the much-debated 1820 settlement scheme which encouraged English people to settle in South Africa, where they were promised fertile land and a pleasant climate. In the print, a working-class English family are shown be...
Alternative Title:
Blessings of emigration to the Cape of Good Hope and Blessings of emigration to the Cape of Forlorn Hope
Description:
Title etched below image. The word "Forlorn" in title is scored through and the word "Good" has been inserted above the line with a caret, forming the correct place name "Cape of Good Hope".
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 7, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
South Africa
Subject (Topic):
Emigration and immigration, Emigration & immigration, Indigenous peoples, Ethnic stereotypes, Cannibalism, Snakes, Lions, Crocodiles, and Fires
Print shows a woodland farmstead: on left, two men with axes felling a tree; another man, smoking a pipe, on horseback, with a dead deer draped over the horse in front of his saddle, watching them; dog drinking ground water; on right, another man plow...
Description:
Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Verlag von J. F. Schreiber
Subject (Geographic):
Germany and United States
Subject (Topic):
German Americans, History, and Emigration and immigration
Print advertising opportunities for homes and land in the new state of South Dakota and offers official information from the Commissioner of Immigration in Aberdeen. Primary image is a female figure wearing a tiara labeled "South Dakota" and holding a...
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc35 890soz 01: Mounted on linen sheet 74 x 54 cm.
Publisher:
F. H. Hagerty, Commissioner of Immigration and Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co.
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota and Great Sioux Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Land tenure, Migration, Internal, Real property, Race relations, and Emigration and immigration
Approximately 80 items which were originally housed in accompanying scrapbook: pamphlets, leaflets, applications forms, forms of receipt and other documents printed by the American Colonization Company and its successor bodies. Also pamphlets, prospec...
Description:
Henry Franklin Shearman was involved with several land companies (including the American Railway Securities and Land Agency, the North American Land Association, and the Minnesota Land and Farming Company) that encouraged English investment in the Ame...
Subject (Geographic):
Canada., Great Plains., Australia, Tasmania., West (U.S.), Canada, England, Great Plains, and Tasmania
Subject (Name):
Ford, William Wilbraham, b. 1846., Shearman, Henry Franklin., American Colonization Company., American Land Association., American Railway Securities and Land Agency., Ford & Co., Ford, Rathbone & Walter (Firm), H.F. Shearman & Co., Iowa and Minnesota Land and Farming Company., Minnesota Land & Emigration Company., Minnesota Land and Farming Company., North American Land Association., and W.W. Ford & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural laborers, Agriculture, Land companies, Emigration and immigration, and History
Approximately 80 items which were originally housed in accompanying scrapbook: pamphlets, leaflets, applications forms, forms of receipt and other documents printed by the American Colonization Company and its successor bodies. Also pamphlets, prospec...
Description:
Henry Franklin Shearman was involved with several land companies (including the American Railway Securities and Land Agency, the North American Land Association, and the Minnesota Land and Farming Company) that encouraged English investment in the Ame...
Subject (Geographic):
Canada., Great Plains., Australia, Tasmania., West (U.S.), Canada, England, Great Plains, and Tasmania
Subject (Name):
Ford, William Wilbraham, b. 1846., Shearman, Henry Franklin., American Colonization Company., American Land Association., American Railway Securities and Land Agency., Ford & Co., Ford, Rathbone & Walter (Firm), H.F. Shearman & Co., Iowa and Minnesota Land and Farming Company., Minnesota Land & Emigration Company., Minnesota Land and Farming Company., North American Land Association., and W.W. Ford & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural laborers, Agriculture, Land companies, Emigration and immigration, and History
Print depicts Denis Kearney, a leader of the Workingmen's Party of California and an Irish immigrant active in the late 19th century who was known for his racist views about Chinese immigrants, behind bars in the San Francisco House of Correction, whe...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Publ. by I.N. Choynski, antiquarian
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Name):
Kearney, Denis, 1847-1907 and Workingmen's Party of California
Subject (Topic):
Chinese Americans, History, Labor policy, and Emigration and immigration
