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Scene at the San Francisco Post Office, Showing How We Get Out Letters

Description: Image is of a crowd outside a large building. There are several signs on the large building as well as on the two smaller buildings to the left of the large building. Beneath the illustration is text describing how the people in California get their mail. The entire image is enclosed by a border. "Published by Leland & McCombe, Post Office, Building, San Francisco. Engraved expressly for the Publishers, by Anthony & Baker."--text, below image. Paper color: blue.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: Issued before March 30, 1854.
Call number: 48052:098
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Scene at the San Francisco Post Office, Showing How We Get Out Letters

Rare Books

Image is of a crowd outside a large building. There are several signs on the large building as well as on the two smaller buildings to the left of the large building. Beneath the illustration is text describing how the people in California get their mail. The entire image is enclosed by a border. "Published at Noisy Carrier's, No. 77 Long Wharf, San Francisco, California."--text, below image. Paper color: gray.

48052:098a

Col. E. D. Baker. We mourn his loss. [Poem by Fitz Green Halleck printed below]

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Image is of the bust of Colonel Baker. The text beneath the image is a poem mourning Baker by Fitz Green Halleck. "[W]illiam Keith."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.

48052:165

San Francisco, From Rincon Point

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Image is of Yerba Buena harbor, looking north, with various types of ships in the harbor. There are four tents on Rincon Point in the foreground, and buildings on the lower hills in the background. The stern-wheeler Captain Sutter is moored in the foreground. "C.J. Pollard's Lith. Pubd. by J.P. Bogardus. J.H. Peirce del."--text, below image. There are handwritten numbers on the image which correspond to a handwritten list beneath the image noting different landmarks. Paper color: gray.

48052:125

San Francisco in 1849

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Image of town buildings, the harbor with several ships in it to the left, the hills in the background, and several tents and small figures in the foreground. Buildings and places of particular interest are numbered in the image, and these numbers correspond to a list beneath the image. "Drawn and Engraved by Thomas Armstrong, in the Fall of 1849, and re-published by A. Rosenfield, (late of Hutchings and Rosenfield), No. 602 Montgomery Street, near Clay, San Francisco."--text, below image. Baird notes that the topography and details of the image are incorrect, and that this is apparently an issue of the early 1860's and not 1849. Paper color: buff.

48052:168

Execution of James P. Casey & Charles Cora

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Image is of two dead bodies hanging from a building with a large armed crowd looking on outside of the building. Below the image is a description of the two executed men and the events leading up to their execution. "Huestis."--text, lower left corner of illustration. "For slae at M. Ullmann's corner of Washington and Sansome street. Town Talk, Print."--text, below image. Paper color: gray.

48052:118

Great Earthquake in San Francisco, October 8th, 1865. [No. 1]

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Image contains 3 vignettes. The left vignette depicts a woman holding up a naked baby by its left foot. The center vignette depicts a four-story building with its right half fallen in and a seemingly undamaged two-story building next to it. The right vignette depicts a servant girl leaving a house with a trunk on her back and a Bible in her hand. Under each vignette is text further describing each scene. "Scene on Bush Street. Wreck of Building S. E. Corner of Third and Mission Streets. Scene on O'Farrell Street."--text, below image. Below the image is text describing the events of the earthquake that occurred on October 8th, 1865. This text continues onto the next page of the sheet. Paper color: buff.

48052:151

Scene at the San Francisco Post Office, Showing How We Get Out Letters

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