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Scene in the last grand parade and review of the Vigilance Committee, San Francisco... [California]

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Title: Scene in the last grand parade and review of the Vigilance Committee, San Francisco... [California]
Creator: Burvel (active ca. 1856), engraver Vance, Robert H. (active ca. 1851-ca. 1862), American, photographer
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: Large crowd of men and women line street awaiting Vigilance Committee parade seen moving down street in distance. This parade apparently followed the committee's victory in battle with the state militia over arms.
Printed title (LC): Scene in the last grand parade and review of the Vigilance Committee, San Francisco. From a dagerreotype by Vance. handwritten (LC, below title): Aug. 17, 1856. Printed (LL, within image): Burvel, del. Stamp (on verso): Frederick Nordstrom, Rare Prints, Arlington, Mass. Handwritten (recto and verso): 1856. Clipping from Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 17, 1856[?].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: engraving 16.7 x 24.2 cm., on mount 26.3 x 38.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3r29p1sc
BANC PIC 1963.002:0613--B
Subject: California, Northern
Criminals
Events
Frontier & pioneer life
Manners & customs
San Francisco (Calif.)

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