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Title: Early California Newspaper Exhibit, Sutter's Fort Historical Museum, Sacramento, California
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Postcards
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: Shown in this circa 1960 postcard is the reenacted publishing room of the "Placer Times" newspaper, set in Sutter's Fort, at Twenty-Seventh and K streets. The paper was started at the fort in April 1849, running through June 1850. One of its original employees was a young James McClatchy, who was charged with covering the new Legislature in San Jose. McClatchy would go on to found the "Sacramento Bee" in 1857.
Type: image
Identifier: BBSAC857
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll2/id/1720
Subject: Newspapers
California State Parks
Sutter's Fort
Museums and Galleries
Exhibits

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