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 drawing of a crowd of many miners lined up in front of the San Francisco Post Office at the corner of Pike Street and Clay Street adjoining Portsmouth Square, 1850. Two buildings are visible, the "Garret House" is a two-story[?] wooden structure on the left and to the right is a shorter wooden structure with a prominent covered porch in front supported by four columns. One man is on horseback. One man is selling newspapers in the foreground. "The four or five clerks received $300 a month and Uncle Sam paid $7000 a year rent for the shack (The Garret House)"
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 8 x 10 in. 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 20 x 25 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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