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Title
Drawing of San Francisco's first fort, Fort Castillo de San Joaquin, reproduced from Bartlett's narrative for the "Beginnings of San Francisco", 1852
Date Created and/or Issued
1852
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of a drawing of San Francisco's first fort, Fort Castillo de San Joaquin, reproduced from Bartlett's Narrative for the "Beginnings of San Francisco", 1852. The fort is a small collection of buildings on a high bluff overlooking the bay. Two riders can be seen headed to the fort at right, and in the foreground at right are two people lounging on a hill. There are several sailing vessels in the bay, and large mountains surround the water on all sides.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m9090
USC-0-1-1-9228 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11435
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9090
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11435.jpg
Subject
Fort Castillo de San Joaquin
Fortification
San Francisco County--Golden Gate and Bay
Fortifications
Time Period
1852
Place
California
San Francisco
USA
Source
11435 [Accession number]
CHS-11435 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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