A sheet with two vignettes. The first, at top, "Rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front," shows building facades on Sacramento Street. Activities include the shoring of a bunker and gathering of ammunition. Men stand ready with cannons on the rooftops. Ship masts are in the harbor in the distance. The second illustration, with caption "Mass meeting endorsing the acts of the Vigilance Committe June 14th" ("Committe" having dropped the final "e"), shows large crowds gathered in the streets of San Francisco
Description:
Title from caption at top of sheet., The phrase "Daguer'pe. by Vance" appears in lower left corner, suggesting that at least one of the images, and perhaps both, was drawn from a daguerreotype by early California photographer Robert H. Vance., Unnumbered pages 2-3 blank., and "Constitution and address of the Vigilance Committee ... adopted, May 15th, 1856"--Unnumbered page 4.
Publisher:
Britton and Rey
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.), California, and San Francisco.
Image shows a row of commercial buildings, one of 3 stories and the remainder of 4, in three different architectural styles, with signs for the multiple businesses they house. Below the image and caption title are listed the businesses: B. Davidson, banker, agents for Mess'rs Rothschild; Botts, Campbell & Emmett, attorneys at law; F. Argenti & Co., bankers; M. H. & H. McAllister, attorneys at law; Chetwood, Edwards, Rose & Turk, attorneys at law; Hoffman & Monroe, attorneys at law; Dodg & Co.'s express; Howard & Green, commission merch'ts; Burritt, Yale & Musson, attorneys at law; Gay & Mellus, importers of wines & liquors; Cooke & Le Count, stationers; Norton, Satterlee & Norton, attorneys at law; Teschemacher & Co., commmission merch'ts; Wells & Co., bankers; Austin & McIlvaine, attorneys at law; Jones & Noyes, attorneys at law; and F. Coombs, daguerrean
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 389: Manuscript note in large blank space below list of businesses: "A block of Montgomery Street in which the left corner house was burnt in the May fire, but is now rebuilt [undeciphered], as before but with only the lower story. There are twenty one 'attorneys at law' in this single block which is very like San Francisco." and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Lith. of Butler
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.), California, and San Francisco
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Commercial buildings, Business enterprises, and Law firms
Print reproduces the J.O. Davidson painting of 1878 showing several ships at sail in choppy seas in the San Francisco bay at the Golden Gate; San Francisco in the distance on right; bouy in left foreground; headland in left background; three- and four-masted sailing ships, tug boat, side wheeler, small boat with one sail
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc72 881daz 01: Mounted on board 52 x 81 cm. Browned., Text below image: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1881 by Wm. Pate & Co in the office of the Librarian of Congress Washington., Title from caption below image., and In lower right corner within image: J.O. Davidson, Fordham, 1878.
Publisher:
Wm. Pate & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Golden Gate (Calif. : Strait), San Francisco Bay (Calif.), and San Francisco (Calif.)
