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Title
[Celebration of Washington's Birthday, San Francisco, California, February 23rd, 1852]
Creator
Pollard & Britton (active ca. 1852), lithographer and publisher Cooke & Le Count (active ca. 1852), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued
[1852]
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
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Description
Open plaza (Portsmouth Square) surrounded by crowd; canon fires at left; several figures run in center; buildings with signage reading "El Dorado" and "The Union" stand next to City Hall at edge of plaza.
Printed title (LC): Celebration of Washington's Birth Day, San Francisco, Feby. 23d, 1852. Printed (LC, below title): Pub. by Cooke & Le Count; (LR): Lith. & pub. by Pollard & Britton.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph 21.5 x 27 cm., sheet
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8p30114j
BANC PIC 1963.002:0010--A
Subject
Buildings
California, Northern
Events
San Francisco (Calif.)

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