Image / Committee of Vigilance of San Francisco [California, certificate], reorganized 15th May, 1856

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Title: Committee of Vigilance of San Francisco [California, certificate], reorganized 15th May, 1856
Creator: Nahl, Charles Christian (1818-1878), German, artist Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: c1856
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: Awarded to Giram S. Wheeler. Includes allegorical images related to justice, vigilance, and morality; and scenes of military events.
Printed title (MC). Printed (MC, below title):Entered... 1856... Ch[arles] Nahl & C. E. Lange... Ca[lifornia]; (LL): Designed & drawn on stone by Cha[rle]s Nahl; (LR): Lith[ograph]y of Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on paper: lithograph, hand colored 50.7 x 38.6 cm., on mount 63.3x 42.8 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7h4nb7mx
BANC PIC 1963.002:0647 (variant)--C
Subject: Military personnel

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