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Title: Washn A. Bartlett
Contributor: Jewett, William S. (William Smith), 1812-1873
Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893
Date Created and/or Issued: 1857
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: "Painted by Wm. S. Jewett, engraved by J.C. Buttre" -- on image.
2019-1251.
Three-quarters length portrait in uniform.
In: The star of the west : or, National men and national measures / by Anna Ella Carroll, facing page 278.
Washinton Allon Barlett was born circa 1816, died in 1865. Served in the U.S. Navy, including surveying duties. In 1844, joined sloop USS Portsmouth during which Mexican American War broke out. Designated by Commodore Montgomery in 1846 as alcalde in Yerba Buena. Served as first U.S. citizen as alcalde in San Francisco (Yerba Buena).
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Language: English
Subject: Bartlett, Washington A.--Portraits
United States. Navy--Officers--Portraits
Municipal officials--California--San Francisco
Military officers--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Lithographs
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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