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Title: Battle of San Gabriel, California
Creator: Southwick, John, artist Worcester & Co., undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1847]
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: Battle of the Rio San Gabriel which occurred on January 8, 1847. Artillery and riflemen in center; mounted Californians, Mexicans, and Indians at left and right; dead and wounded in background.
Printed title (LC). Date in pencil (LR): 1851. Printed (LL): Worcester & Co. Scene drawn by John Southwick of the United States Navy (information from text below image). Clipping from: Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion. Handwritten (on verso): Should be 1847.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving 21 x 28.2 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6779p4jv
BANC PIC 1963.002:0405--A
Subject: California, Southern
Events
Frontier & pioneer life

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