Title:
[View of Sacramento, California, 1849]
Creator/Contributor:
Le Breton, L., French, engraver (engraver)
Date:
[not before 1849]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1880--C
Format:
print on paper: etching, hand colored
24.8 x 36.7 cm., image on paper 43.4 x 60.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Waterfront looking from Sacramento River towards city down J Street; busy commercial waterfront district with numerous buildings,
businesses (hot cake and coffee tent, City Hotel, Eagle Theatre, Eldorado Exchange, Freemont House, General Jackson's Hotel,
J.B. Starr & Company, and others), tents, and wagons; building materials and cargo on bank; numerous vessels include sailing
ships, sidewheel steamship, and rowboats on river.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): Vue de Sacramento. Printed (LR): Le Breton, sc. Date of view based on comparison to 1963.002:1535:01--D.
For variants see 1963.002:1880--C and 1963.002:1535:01--D. Inscriptions in French.
Subjects:
Buildings;
Business enterprises;
California, Northern;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Hotels;
Rivers;
Sacramento (Calif.);
Settlements;
Vessels;
Waterfronts
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Etchings