Cartoon showing how they went to California in forty-nine
1924
A Nathaniel Currier cartoon on the improbable contraptions imagined for getting gold seekers to California, including craft in the air as well as at sea. This copy is a glass negative from the Harris and Ewing collection at the Library of Congress.
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