Juan Arturo Andrade Mendoza - Le Voyage Vers un Horizon Lointain

Le Voyage Vers un Horizon Lointain

Created on Wednesday, 18. November 2009.

Tags: San Francisco Inmigration, Le Voyage Vers un Horizon Lointain, San Francisco Cilppers, Viaje hacia un horizonte distante

The despoliation of more than the half of its territory realized to Mexico in 1847, on the part of the United States it provoked an immigration without precedents. More even if in 1848 there discovered gold, which developed in famous " Fever of the Gold ".
But the snatched territories continued being inhospitable lands, territories that required to be populated to any price. The government of the United States was motivating the settling, but to do the tour crossing the territory by earth was representing an adventure with extraordinary risks.
One resorted to the use of ships called "Clippers" that were departing from the city of New York or Boston, these ships had to realize the trip of more than 100 days, the ships were surrounding the continent, doing scales in different cities of the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and raising towards the north crossing of the ocean Pacific up to coming to its destination: San Francisco.
This business ended with the construction of the railroad of coast to coast, and with the construction of the Canal of Panama.

I have here, a collection of affiches whose principal topic were to invite the immigrant to realize the trip to San Francisco.