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Published just one year before the “golden spike” joined Union Pacific Railroad tracks with those of the Central Pacific at Promontory, Utah, Across the Continent symbolizes the expansionist zeal of post–Civil War America. Pictured here is an invented site, somewhere along the transcontinental railroad route.
Dec 5, 2018 · Across the Continent is one of the best-known collaborations between Fanny Palmer–the illustrator who produced nearly 200 lithographs for the company–and Currier & Ives. Collaborations between Palmer and Currier & Ives have performed well at auction in recent years: The “Lightning Express” Trains sold at Swann in 2015 for $15,000.
Across the Continent is a lost silent film released by Paramount Pictures in June 1922, and was one of star Wallace Reid's last performances. This film was also the opening night film of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on June 22, 1922.
- June 4, 1922
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Manifest Destiny and the West. Frances Flora Bond Palmer, James Merritt Ives, Currier and Ives, Across the Continent: "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way", 1868, hand-colored lithograph, with touches of gum arabic, on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.160. In what ways was the US settled and unsettled in the ...
Across the Continent. "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way". 1868 Frances Flora Bond Palmer (American (born England), 1812–1876) Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St., New York (1835–1907) Frances (Fanny) Palmer immigrated to the United States from England in 1844, shortly before journalist John O'Sullivan coined the term ...
- 1868
- Hand-colored lithograph
Text at bottom on stone: J.M. Ives, Del. / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year AD.1868, by Currier & Ives in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York / Drawn by F.F. Palmer / Across the Continent. / "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way." Bibliography.
Across the Continent: 'Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way'. From 1835 to 1907, the Currier & Ives printmaking company produced over a million lithograph illustrations of events, portraits, and scenes from American life. In the era before photography and the widespread use of illustrations in newspapers, people could buy these ...
