The Rocky Mountains, emigrants crossing the plains / F.F. Palmer, del. ; Currier & Ives lith., N.Y. – Vintage Print
(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.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The Rocky Mountains, emigrants crossing the plains / F.F. Palmer, del. ; Currier & Ives lith., N.Y.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Rocky Mountains, emigrants crossing the plains / F.F. Palmer, del. ; Currier & Ives lith., N.Y.
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Titled for the Rocky Mountains, this print shows emigrants crossing the plains, with the distant peaks giving the journey its destination. Frances F. Palmer drew the design, and Currier & Ives issued it in New York around 1866. By then tens of thousands of settlers had made the overland trip on routes such as the Oregon and California trails, and inexpensive lithographs like this one brought that migration into middle-class parlors. The print is a useful view of how the period pictured westward travel for buyers who would never make the journey themselves.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1866. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Artist: Frances F. Palmer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5633. |
| Subjects | Westward movement--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,081 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108943 |
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