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Title
Fort Sutter in Sacramento, 1850
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
1850
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 by J.W. Revere (U.S. Navy) of Fort Sutter in Sacramento, 1850. The walled fort encloses a large building on which an American flag flies. A short line of soldiers stand at attention in front of the open gate of the fort. Two mounted men and a person leading a burro are in the foreground. Another man is smoking a pipe as he walks by a small building in the foreground at left. Two cows or oxen are tethered behind a low wall at right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m8311
USC-1-1-1-8443 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2152
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8311
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2152.jpg
Subject
Fortification
Military
Revere, I.W
Fort Sutter
Sacramento County--General views--Illustrations
Time Period
1850
Place
California
Sacramento
USA
Source
1-44- [Microfiche number]
2152 [Accession number]
CHS-2152 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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