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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
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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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