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Beale & Craven's magnificent twelve-mile mirror of the voyage from Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] to California

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Title: Beale & Craven's magnificent twelve-mile mirror of the voyage from Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] to California
Creator: Beale & Craven (active ca. 1851), undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued: [1851]
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: Broadside advertising exhibition, to be held in Alhambra Hall, of four panorama paintings showing scenes from voyage. Each panorama described in detail, all purportedly painted by Mr. Hielge in March 1851 from drawings made on the spot by other eminent artists. Vignette of large sidewheel steamship at top of broadside.
Printed title (UC): First time in this city!/Beale & Craven's/magnificent twelve-mile mirror/of the voyage from/Philadelphia to/California/and the gold mines!/And from California to Boston!/The outward voyage around Cape Horn, and/return by the Isthmus/Now open at Alhambra Hall.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving and letterpress 43.3 x 16.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2k40084z
BANC PIC 1963.002:0937--B
Subject: Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific

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