Title:
Scene in the last grand parade and review of the Vigilance Committee, San Francisco... [California]
Creator/Contributor:
Burvel (active ca. 1856), engraver (engraver)
Vance, Robert H. (active ca. 1851-ca. 1862), American, photographer (photographer)
Date:
[1856]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0613--B
Format:
print on paper mounted on board: engraving
16.7 x 24.2 cm., on mount 26.3 x 38.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Large crowd of men and women line street awaiting Vigilance Committee parade seen moving down street in distance. This parade
apparently followed the committee's victory in battle with the state militia over arms.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): Scene in the last grand parade and review of the Vigilance Committee, San Francisco. From a dagerreotype
by Vance. handwritten (LC, below title): Aug. 17, 1856. Printed (LL, within image): Burvel, del. Stamp (on verso): Frederick
Nordstrom, Rare Prints, Arlington, Mass. Handwritten (recto and verso): 1856. Clipping from Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,
August 17, 1856[?].
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Criminals;
Events;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Manners & customs;
San Francisco (Calif.)
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Engravings