Image / Sacramento Street in May 1854 (San Francisco, California)

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Title: Sacramento Street in May 1854 (San Francisco, California)
Creator: Nahl, Charles Christian (1818-1878), German, artist (attributed to)
Date Created and/or Issued: May 1854
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: View looking west up Sacramento Street (Chinatown, Calif.) lined with shops and restaurants, several figures (in Asian dress?), horse and wagon, parcels, and barrels in street. Wood plank board street is divided into two levels with earth and rubble in gap. Signage for Chinese restaurant and shops, St. Francis Market, coffin maker, and wood & coal yard are visible.
Handwritten title (UL). Handwritten signage (within image): Restaurant, St. Francis Market, coffins, wood & coal yard; and Naft L. (others in Chinese).
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: pen and wash 26.6 x 44.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5p3010v0
BANC PIC 1963.002:0802:07--ALB
Subject: Buildings
Business enterprises
California, Northern
Chinese
Sacramento (Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements

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