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Title: [View of Sacramento, California, 1849]
Creator: Le Breton, L., French, engraver
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1849]
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: Waterfront looking from Sacramento River towards city down J Street; busy commercial waterfront district with numerous buildings, businesses (hot cake and coffee tent, City Hotel, Eagle Theatre, Eldorado Exchange, Freemont House, General Jackson's Hotel, J.B. Starr & Company, and others), tents, and wagons; building materials and cargo on bank; numerous vessels include sailing ships, sidewheel steamship, and rowboats on river.
Printed title (LC): Vue de Sacramento. Printed (LR): Le Breton, sc. Date of view based on comparison to 1963.002:1535:01--D. For variants see 1963.002:1880--C and 1963.002:1535:01--D. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: etching, hand colored 24.8 x 36.7 cm., image on paper 43.4 x 60.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4r29p32s
BANC PIC 1963.002:1880--C
Subject: Buildings
Business enterprises
California, Northern
Frontier & pioneer life
Hotels
Rivers
Sacramento (Calif.)
Settlements
Vessels
Waterfronts

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