Image / [Sidewheel steamship "Chrysopolis"on Sacramento River, California]

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Title: [Sidewheel steamship "Chrysopolis"on Sacramento River, California]
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1860]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
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Description: Sidewheel steamship "Chrysopolis" with twin smokestacks churns along river preceded by two sailboats; two simple houses on far shore; small mountain rises in distance. " Chrysopolis" (1050 tons, length 245 feet) was built in 1860; rebuilt in 1875 as ferry steamer "Oakland" which was lost by fire in 1940.
Title based on handwritten text within image. Historical information from Inventory Sheets.
Type: image
Format: Painting on canvas: oil 50.5 x 82 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7489p4q3
BANC PIC 1963.002:1355--FR
Subject: California, Northern
Rivers
Sacramento (Calif.)
Vessels

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