Title:
[View of Sacramento, California in 1849]
Creator/Contributor:
Le Breton, L., French, artist and lithographer (artist and lithographer)
E. Savary et Cie, French, publisher (publisher)
Bry, Auguste, French, printer (printer)
Date:
[not before 1849]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0198--D
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
50.4 x 64.4 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 including sailing
ships, sidewheel steamship, and rowboats on river.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): Ville de Sacramento. Printed (LC, above title): 46; (LL): Dess. et lith par L. Le Breton, Paris, E. Savary
et C[ompagn]ie editeurs, 10 Place du Louvre; (LR): Paris imp. par Auguste Bry, 142 r[ue] du Bac, London, Gambart et Co., 25
Berners S[tree]t, Oxford S[tree]t. 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;
Lithographs, color