Caravan of emigrants for California (Crossing the great American desert in Nebraska) – Historic Print
![Caravan of emigrants for California (Crossing the great American desert in Nebraska), [between 1850? and 1900?] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/23/23531457bf4c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This antique engraving of Caravan of emigrants for California (Crossing the great American desert in Nebraska) brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Caravan of emigrants for California (Crossing the great American desert in Nebraska)
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This engraving shows a caravan of emigrants crossing what its title calls the "great American desert" in Nebraska, a stretch of the central plains that 19th-century maps often labeled as unfit for farming. Nebraska lay along the central route of the overland trails, which carried gold-seekers and settlers toward California and Oregon, mostly following the Platte River valley. Hand-coloring was added to many wood engravings of this kind, so the wagons and clothing may show color the printmaker chose rather than the original look of the scene. The date range in the record is uncertain, but the subject reflects the peak years of westward migration.
| Created / published | [between 1850? and 1900?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Wood engravings Hand-colored 1850-1900. |
| Notes | Title from item |
| Subjects | Covered wagons--Nebraska--1850-1900. Emigration & immigration--Nebraska--1850-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 905 × 1,227 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216731 |
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