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Title: Joseph L. Folsom
Date Created and/or Issued: 1855
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2019-1497.
Bust-length portrait.
Born in 1817 in New Hampshire to Abraham and Mary (Libbey) Folsom. Graduated from Military Academy at West Point in 1840; served in the Seminole War in Florida; served as Instructor in Infantry Tactics at West Point after war; joined command of Colonel Stevenson headed for California, arriving in 1847, serving in quarter-master's dept. In 1849 purchased the estate of Leidesdorff (including American River Rancho, present site of Folsom), purchased land in Yerba Buena
In: The Annals of San Francisco / by Frank Soule, John H. Gihon and James Nisbet, page 754.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.
Language: English
Subject: Folsom, Joseph Libbey,, 1817-1855--Portraits
Military officers--California--San Francisco
Pioneers--California
San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography--Pictorial works
Lithographs
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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