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The persuit [i.e. pursuit] – Historic Print

The persuit [i.e. pursuit], Boston : issued from Bufford's Print Publishing House, [186-] — antique lithograph
The persuit [i.e. pursuit], Boston : issued from Bufford's Print Publishing House, [186-]. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 persuit [i.e. pursuit]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Scaffold burial and a Pony Express rider appear together in this hand-colored lithograph, the detail that sets it apart from other frontier scenes of its time. Plains peoples placed their dead on raised wooden platforms, a practice that white American observers often described with fascination, while the Pony Express carried mail across those same plains for about eighteen months, from 1860 to 1861. The sheet was issued by Bufford's Print Publishing House in Boston, a firm known for inexpensive popular lithographs, and its title, printed here as "The Persuit," shows how eastern audiences imagined the frontier during the 1860s.

Created / publishedBoston : issued from Bufford's Print Publishing House, [186-]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870.
SubjectsIndians of North America--Spiritual life--1860-1870. Pony express--1860-1870. Frontier & pioneer life--1860-1870. Scaffold burial--United States--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,133 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114000

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