Title:
View of Sacramento City: as it appeared during the great inundation in January 1850 [California]
Creator/Contributor:
Geo. W. Casilear & Henry Bainbridge (active ca. 1850), artist (artist)
Sarony, lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
c1850
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1537--E
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
57.5 x 91 cm.
Content/Description:
Flooded area looking from levee on Sacramento River down J Street. Numerous rafts and rowboats on water; animals, tents, cargo,
houses, and buildings half submerged in flood waters.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn from nature by Geo. W. Casilear & Henry Bainbridge/Entered... 1850 by Casilear & Bainbridge...
New York/Lith of Sarony, New York. Printed legend. For variant see 1963.002:0253--A.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Events;
Rivers;
Sacramento (Calif.);
Settlements;
Waterfronts
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs, color