Title:
Sacramento City, Ca[lifornia] from the foot of J. Street...
Creator/Contributor:
Cooper, George Victor (1810-1878), American, artist (artist)
Parsons, Charles R. (1821-1910), American, lithographer (lithographer)
Wm. Endicott & Co. (active ca. 1849-ca. 1852), lithographer (lithographer)
Stringer & Townsend, publisher (publisher)
Brainerd, A., undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
c1850
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1535:01--D
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
53.3 x 67.9 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): Sacramento City, Ca[lifornia] from the foot of J. Street, showing I, J, & K St[reet]s with the Sierra
Nevada in the distance. Printed (LL, within image): C. Parsons; (LL): Drawn Dec[ember] 20th, 1849 by G.V. Cooper; (LC, below
title): Entered... 1850 by A. Braine[r?]d... N[ew] Y[ork]; (LR): Lith. of W[illia]m Endicott & Co., N[ew] York. Printed legend.
For variants see 1963.002:0198--D and 1963.002:1880--D.
Subjects:
Buildings;
Business enterprises;
California, Northern;
Hotels;
Rivers;
Sacramento (Calif.);
Settlements;
Vessels;
Waterfronts
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs, color