Title:
[Placerville, Main St. and Cary House with Stage-coach bearing Horace Greeley and driver Hank Monk]
Creator/Contributor:
Weed, Charles L., photographer
Abstract:
A crowd gathered in fron of the Cary House hotel, around two stagecoaches. A photographer's advertisement hang on a banner
over the street, advertising "Ambrotypes $1.00".
Date:
[July 31 1859]
Subject:
Cities and towns
Streets
Carriages & coaches
Mining districts--California--El Dorado County--Placerville--Photographs
Note:
Attribution to C.L. Weed has been questioned, and originates with the item's provenance-based association with the Rosenblatt
scrapbook and the similarity of format to the Weed images within the scrapbook. The image might have been taken by V. Michaels
or D.H. Woods, whose studio was in the Cary House (pictured), and whose banner promoting ambrotypes is visible over the street.
(cf. Palmquist, Pioneer photographers of the far west, p. 400.)
Source of supplied caption unknown. It is not clear whether the coaches are pictured with driver Hank Monk and passenger Horace
Greeley, or whether (more likely) this is simply the stage line referred to in the frequently told, (possibly apocryphal),
story of Greeley's high-speed trip to Placerville in 1859.
Type:
Salted paper prints
Local Call Number:
BANC PIC 1958.024:49--ffALB
Filename:
brk00041414_8a.tif
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