Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Burvel (active ca. 1856), engraver
Creator Name:
Vance, Robert H. (active ca. 1851-ca. 1862), American, photographer
Creator Role:
engraver
Creator Role:
Photographer
Title:
Scene in the last grand parade and review of the Vigilance Committee, San Francisco... [California]
Date:
[1856]
Materials:
print on paper mounted on board: engraving
Dimensions:
16.7 x 24.2 cm., on mount 26.3 x 38.5 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0613--B
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Criminals
- Events
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Manners & customs
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Cityscapes
- Engravings
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Large crowd of men and women line street awaiting Vigilance Committee parade seen moving down street in distance. This parade apparently followed the committee's victory in battle with the state militia over arms.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC): Scene in the last grand parade and review of the Vigilance Committee, San Francisco. From a dagerreotype by Vance. handwritten (LC, below title): Aug. 17, 1856. Printed (LL, within image): Burvel, del. Stamp (on verso): Frederick Nordstrom, Rare Prints, Arlington, Mass. Handwritten (recto and verso): 1856. Clipping from Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 17, 1856[?].
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf3r29p1s c

Scene in the last grand parade and review of the Vigilance Committee, San Francisco.…