Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Group Creator Name:
- Beale & Craven (active ca. 1851), undetermined
Title:
Beale & Craven's magnificent twelve-mile mirror of the voyage from Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] to California
Date:
[1851]
Materials:
print on paper: engraving and letterpress
Dimensions:
43.3 x 16.7 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0937--B
Subject:
- Vessels
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Advertisements
- Broadsides
- Engravings
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Broadside advertising exhibition, to be held in Alhambra Hall, of four panorama paintings showing scenes from voyage. Each panorama described in detail, all purportedly painted by Mr. Hielge in March 1851 from drawings made on the spot by other eminent artists. Vignette of large sidewheel steamship at top of broadside.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (UC): First time in this city!/Beale & Craven's/magnificent twelve-mile mirror/of the voyage from/Philadelphia to/California/and the gold mines!/And from California to Boston!/The outward voyage around Cape Horn, and/return by the Isthmus/Now open at Alhambra Hall.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf2k40084 z

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