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Title
[View of Sacramento, California in 1849]
Creator
Le Breton, L., French, artist and lithographer E. Savary et Cie, French, publisher Bry, Auguste, French, printer
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
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Description
Waterfront looking from Sacramento River towards city down J Street; busy commercial waterfront district with numerous buildings, businesses (hot cake and coffee tent, City Hotel, Eagle Theatre, Eldorado Exchange, Freemont House, General Jackson's Hotel, J.B. Starr & Company, and others), tents, and wagons; building materials and cargo on bank; numerous vessels including sailing ships, sidewheel steamship, and rowboats on river.
Printed title (LC): Ville de Sacramento. Printed (LC, above title): 46; (LL): Dess. et lith par L. Le Breton, Paris, E. Savary et C[ompagn]ie editeurs, 10 Place du Louvre; (LR): Paris imp. par Auguste Bry, 142 r[ue] du Bac, London, Gambart et Co., 25 Berners S[tree]t, Oxford S[tree]t. For variants see 1963.002:1880--C and 1963.002:1535:01--D. Inscriptions in French.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 50.4 x 64.4 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8v19p58r
BANC PIC 1963.002:0198--D
Subject
Buildings
Business enterprises
California, Northern
Frontier & pioneer life
Hotels
Rivers
Sacramento (Calif.)
Settlements
Vessels
Waterfronts

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