Title:
Fort Vigilance/Surrender of the law and order forces
Creator/Contributor:
Huestis, Charles B. (active ca. 1856-ca. 1859), engraver (engraver)
Date:
[1856]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0144 (page 4)--A
Format:
print on tinted paper: wood engraving
25 x 21 cm., sheet
Content/Description:
Upper image: barricades with cannons in front of Fort Vigilance, armed men on street, barricade, and roof of buildings. Lower
image: surrender of soldiers to Vigilance Committee; large crowd of armed men surround building.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (below images). Printed (upper image, below title): Sounding of the alarm bell and a general rush to arms; (lower
image, below title): Their arms, amunition [sic] and accoutrements, at the California Exchange, (The Old Post Office); (lower
image): Huestis. Handwritten (on verso): page 4.
Subjects:
Arms & armaments;
Buildings;
California, Northern;
Events;
Military personnel;
San Francisco (Calif.)
Genre/Format:
Engravings;
Pictorial lettersheets