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Title: Sutter's Fort
Creator: Tyrrell, W
Date Created and/or Issued: July 2, 1855
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 1999-0427.
Pencil drawing of Sutter's Fort in ruin; end of the two-story building open, floor beams fallen, hole in the roof; single-story building attached at back with no roof. Signed by artist -- lower right corner.
Negative, no. 21,149 (4 x 5 in. color transparency).
"Presented to William G. Bradshaw by Elizabeth Saunders" -- handwritten on verso. Elizabeth Saunders was actress. Originally mounted and kept in protective case.
Lura N. Shaw;
Type: image
Format: Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 drawing : pencil ; 5 7/8 x 8 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001378802CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2047
Language: English
Subject: Buildings--California--Sacramento
Forts & fortifications--California--Sacramento
Sutter's Fort (Sacramento, Calif.)--Pictorial works
Sacramento (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Drawings
Pencil works
Place: California
Sacramento
Sutter's Fort (Sacramento, Calif.)
Sacramento (Calif.)

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