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Title: Defence [sic] of the California Bank
Creator: Serrell & Perkins (active ca. 1850), lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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: Satirical image including caricatures representing England, Russia, France, and Spain coming into Bay of San Francisco; military encampment (soldiers and cannons) and two figures with animal bodies (President James K. Polk and another figure) guarding shore against foreigners.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, above title): Lith. & pub[lishe]d Serrell & Perkins, 75 Nassau St[reet], N[ew] Y[ork].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 35.5 x 53.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf487008h9
BANC PIC 1963.002:0447--C
Subject: Animals
Arms & armaments
Gold rushes
Military facilities
Mining

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