Frances Flora Bond Palmer, Across the Continent: “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way,” 1868

This is the most widely recognized work of Frances “Fanny” Palmer, an English-born American artist who worked for the New York print-making house of Currier & Ives. The print, produced a year before the transcontinental railroad was completed, presents a highly idealized view of what the westward expansion of American industries and institutions would bring to the Mountain West. Currier & Ives sold thousands of copies of this image, and it graced the walls of many homes, schools, and businesses.

Frances Flora Bond Palmer, “Across the Continent: ‘Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way,’ 1868”
Across the Continent
F. F. Palmer, Across the Continent: “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way,” lithograph (New York: Currier & Ives, 1868).

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