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Title: Inundation of the State Capitol, City of Sacramento, 1862
Contributor: Rosenfield, A
Sacramento History Online: 2001-2002
Date Created and/or Issued: 1862
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Two views of the Sacramento flood.
Baird,
Top view (2002-0059). "J Street from the Levee" shows flooded street with row boats; signs for Baker & Hamilton Agricultural Warehouse, Stoves -- Bottom view (2002-0060). "K Street from the Levee" shows flotsam, row boats, and skiffs on crowded street; signs for Baths, Ebner's, and What Cheer House.
Also have negative, no. 5,495 (4 x 5 in.). Library has another copy filed in Prints: Sacramento: Fires & Floods.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 16 1/2 x 10 5/8 in. sheet.
Identifier: (C)001383686CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-6954
Language: English
Subject: Floods--California--Sacramento
Streets--California--Sacramento
Rowboats--California--Sacramento
Buildings--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Pictorial lettersheets
Prints
Lithographs
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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