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Scene at the San Francisco Post Office, Showing How We Get Out Letters

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Title: Scene at the San Francisco Post Office, Showing How We Get Out Letters
Creator: Anthony & Baker, printer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image is of a crowd outside a large building. There are several signs on the large building as well as on the two smaller buildings to the left of the large building. Beneath the illustration is text describing how the people in California get their mail. The entire image is enclosed by a border. "Published by Leland & McCombe, Post Office, Building, San Francisco. Engraved expressly for the Publishers, by Anthony & Baker."--text, below image. Paper color: blue.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 wood engraving : uncolored ; 24.2 x 19.2 cm (9 5/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
Identifier: 48052:098
48748
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23491
Language: English
Subject: California--Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.)--History
Post office buildings--California
Wood engravings. (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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