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Title: [James McClatchy]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1869
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Bust-length portrait. Dated and signed by artist in lower right corner "G. A. Yound, 1869" (last name possibly Young?, artist may be George A. Young).
1990-1680.
Born in Ireland in 1824 of Scottish-Irish parents. Emigrated to United States. Arrived in California via Panama route in 1849. Settled in Sacramento where worked for variety of newspapers (Placer Times, Settlers and Miners Tribune) before founding Sacramento Bee in 1857. Died in 1883.
Type: image
Format: Portraits.
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 drawing : charcoal ; oval 20 x 15 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001490577CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: McClatchy, James,, 1824-1883--Portraits
Irish Americans--California--Sacramento--Pictorial works
Pioneers--California--Sacramento
Newspaper editors--California--Sacramento
Journalists--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Portrait drawings
Charcoal drawings
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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