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 the bear flag of Sonoma, the upper portion of which is the flagpole of the celebrated "Bear Flag Uprising", California, ca.1923. Situated in front of a two-story building (hotel?), the flagpole stands next to a large boulder with the S.V.W.C. (Sonoma Valley Women's Club) Bear Flag Monument Plaque. Stacks of pipes(?) lay near several of the trees that surrounds the flagpole. A man appears to be raising (or lowering?) the flag. "Historic California Bear Flag as photographed in 1890. This flag, raised at Sonoma on June 14, 1846, was in the possession of the Society of California Pioneers at the time of the 1906 Great Earthquake and Fire, and burned during the conflagration. According to the California Blue Book: 'the flag was designed by William Todd on a piece of new unbleached cotton. The star imitated the lone star of Texas. A grizzly bear represented the many bears seen in the state. The word, 'California Republic' was placed beneath the star and bear. The Bear Flag was replaced by the American flag. It was adopted by the 1911 State Legislature as the State Flag.'" -- unknown author. "
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 26 x 21 cm. 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w glass plate negatives photographs
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