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California Calls You

Here are a couple of enticing 19th century paintings that made their way on to broadsides promoting migration to California.  I would have been on the next train...Screen shot 2014-01-04 at 1.19.39 PM Or try this on for size - oranges...everywhere!

 

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With compliments,

Keith

 

MigrationKeith HarrisJanuary 4, 2014Broadsides, California, migration, railroads, Southern Pacific, tourism, Union PacificComment
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popular cultureKeith HarrisJanuary 5, 2014Civil War films, Gettysburg, Joshua Lawrence CHamberlain, Killer Angels, Michael Shaara, Ron Maxwell5 Comments
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Robert E. Lee: A Tragic Figure in the American Experience

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