Image / View of the Plaza of San-Francisco, on the 4th of July 1851

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Title: View of the Plaza of San-Francisco, on the 4th of July 1851
Date Created and/or Issued: 1851
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1856
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image is of the Plaza filled with people watching a parade of horse-drawn boat and barrel floats. In the background, despite the terrible fires of May and June of this year (as Baird notes), are several buildings facing the Plaza. These include a post office and a court. There are many United States flags flying throughout the scene. "Publ. & Lith. by Quirot & Co. Califa. corner Montgy. St. S. F."--text, below image. There is a handwritten word in the lower left corner of the sheet and above the image. Paper color: gray.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; 22 x 27.5 cm (8 5/8 x 10 3/4 in.) overall
Identifier: 48052:148
15052
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23543
Language: English
Subject: California--Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.)--History
Fourth of July celebrations
Lithographs. (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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