Past & Present of California
Past & Present of California
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- Description (Brief)
- Black and white print of two circlular views, one depicting passengers disemarking from a sailing vessel, and the other a steamship with paseengers coming and going on a gangplank. These views are surrounded by smaller ones of men working the mines and plowing a field, a stagecoach, a steamship, and a public school. An elephant is at the center top of the image. This is an unused folded letter sheet with the image on its first page.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Stationery
- Lithograph
- Date made
- n.d.
- maker
- Britton & Rey
- place made
- United States: California, San Francisco
- Measurements
- image: 7 7/8 in x 10 3/8 in; 20.0025 cm x 26.3525 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.3809
- catalog number
- 60.3809
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Education
- Wild Animals
- Carriages
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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