Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Title:
Sounding the alarm bell over Port Vigilance, San Francisco, Cal[ifornia]
Date:
[1856]
Materials:
print on paper mounted on board: engraving
Dimensions:
16.2 x 24.5 cm., on mount 26.2 x 38 cm
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0612--B
Subject:
- Buildings
- California, Northern
- Criminals
- Events
- Frontier & pioneer
life
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Engravings
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Embattled "Fort Gunnybags" (located on Sacramento Street); men with guns on horseback and in street; large group in military uniforms on roof of building; man sounding alarm bell over Port Vigilance. Business signs on buildings read "Manahan & Barrow," "Gem Saloon," and "Brown & Crowell."
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Stamp (on verso): Frederick Nordstrom, rare prints, Arlington, Mass[achusetts]. Handwritten (LL, mount): original, 1856. Clipping from Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 9, 1856[?].
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf2g5007t 5

Sounding the alarm bell over Port Vigilance, San Francisco, Cal[ifornia]