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View of Sacramento City as it appeared during the great inundation [of 1850, California]

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Title: View of Sacramento City as it appeared during the great inundation [of 1850, California]
Creator: Casilear, George W. (active ca. 1860), American, artist Ormsby, W. L. (active ca. 1850), engraver
Date Created and/or Issued: [1850]
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: Flooded area looking from levee on Sacramento River down J Street. Numerous rafts and rowboats on water; animals, tents, cargo, houses, and buildings half submerged in flood waters.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Painted by G.W. Casilear; (LR): Eng[rave]d by W.L. Ormsby. Date based on comparison to 1963.002:1537--E.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving 13.9 x 21.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8q2nb8t4
BANC PIC 1963.002:0253--A
Subject: California, Northern
Events
Rivers
Sacramento (Calif.)
Waterfronts

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