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Title: Committee of vigilance of San Francisco
Creator: Nahl, Charles Christian, 1818-1878, artist
Britton & Rey, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1856
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of a membership certificate for the Committee of Vigilance of San Francisco, California; vignettes of soldiers marching and officers on horseback in oval frames are interspersed between images of men and women symbolizing virtues like strength, bounty, patriotism, and moral power; certificate text at center.
"Designed & Drawn on Stone by Chas. Nahl. Lithy. of Britton & Rey S.F."--text, bottom center margin. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856 by Chas. Nahl & C.F. Lang in the Clerks Office of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Ca."--text, bottom center of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 53.66 x 40.96 cm (21 1/8 x 16 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_POL_002853
417122
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4225
Language: English
Subject: Men--Pictorial works
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856
Soldiers--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
Lithographs--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Politics & Social Issues
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Relation: HM 56797; HM 83172

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