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Title: Celebration on the admission of California into the Union
Creator: Marryat, Francis Samuel (1826-1855), British, artist [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1849]
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: Parade (on Montgomery Street?) to celebrate California's admission into the Union. Large crowds and men on horseback fill square; soldiers, sailors, and others in foreground. San Francisco customs house in left background.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below image): From an original drawing taken on the spot, by F. Marryatt [sic], Esq., Oct[ober] 29th, 1849. Handwritten (LC, below image): ... 1850.
Type: image
Format: Photograph on paper mounted on board: albumen 31.1 x 51.5 cm., on mount 37.2 x 62.9 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7r29p5r1
BANC PIC 1963.002:1878--C
Subject: California, Northern
Events
Military personnel
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements

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