Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a detail of a drawing by Edwin A. Sherman depicting the raising of an American flag in Yerba Buena (later known as San Francisco), 1846. The flag is towards the left of the picture, and around it are four rows of soldiers in formation. An officer stands at the center of the formations, gesturing towards the flag. In the bay, there is a three-mast ship, the guns of which have just been fired, indicated by the two puffs of smoke near the hull. There are four smaller boats full of men headed from the main ship towards the shore. Behind the soldiers on the left are two barracks, and in the foreground there are seven men, two near a beached boat, and one with his hat off in celebration. Mountains fill the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs art
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