Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a half-tone print of a drawing of an adobe structure known as the Mexican Custom House at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, later known as the Old Adobe, July 1846. Two oxen and a hay cart sit stand in the left foreground. The house was captured from the Mexicans by Captain John B. Montgomery of the Sloop Portsmouth three weeks before Sam Brennan landed with 300 armed Mormons. From the Century Publishing Company, A.B. Scherer in Sunset Magazine, September 1925.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 25 x 20 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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