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The celebration in San Francisco [California], in commemoration of the successful laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, Monday, September 27th, 1858

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Title: The celebration in San Francisco [California], in commemoration of the successful laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, Monday, September 27th, 1858
Creator: Sterett & Butler, engraver, publisher, and printer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1858
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: Children, bears, firemen, and pioneers join in celebration parades with various types of wagons including covered wagons, buckboard, and fire engine. Main text surrounded by thirty small state seals.
Printed title (UC). Printed (MC, within image): Sterett & Butler, printers, engravers and publishers, 145 Clay Street, San Francisco. Printed captions. Additional printed text(on verso).
Type: image
Format: Print on tinted paper: engraving 42 x 27.5 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5q2nb6z9
BANC PIC 1963.002:0008--B
Subject: Equipment
Events
Settlers
Vehicles
Westward movement

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