Image / Sounding the alarm bell over Port Vigilance, San Francisco, Cal[ifornia]

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Title: Sounding the alarm bell over Port Vigilance, San Francisco, Cal[ifornia]
Date Created and/or Issued: [1856]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Embattled "Fort Gunnybags" (located on Sacramento Street); men with guns on horseback and in street; large group in military uniforms on roof of building; man sounding alarm bell over Port Vigilance. Business signs on buildings read "Manahan & Barrow," "Gem Saloon," and "Brown & Crowell."
Printed title (LC). Stamp (on verso): Frederick Nordstrom, rare prints, Arlington, Mass[achusetts]. Handwritten (LL, mount): original, 1856. Clipping from Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 9, 1856[?].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: engraving 16.2 x 24.5 cm., on mount 26.2 x 38 cm
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2g5007t5
BANC PIC 1963.002:0612--B
Subject: Buildings
California, Northern
Criminals
Events
Frontier & pioneer life
San Francisco (Calif.)

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