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Crossing the Plains. Views drawn from Nature, 1853
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Crossing the Plains to California
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Image contains thirteen vignettes depicting various locations emigrants passed as they crossed the plains (such as Chimney Rock, Castle Rock, Laramie Peak, etc.), Indians that emigrants encountered, and activities that emigrants engaged in as they crossed the plains. The image is torn on the right side and appears to have been cut along the top and bottom. "[Published by Hutchings & Rosenfield 146 Montgomery St. San Francisco. Printed by S. H. Wade. 151 Clay St.]"--text, below image (from Baird). Paper color: blue.
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San Francisco the Morning After the Great Fire of May 4th. View Taken From the Corner of Broadway & Sansome Sts
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Image is of a view to the west of San Francisco. It is a scene of complete devastation; only a few brick shells of buildings are standing in the center and to the right. The buildings in the right foreground appear to be intact, and they are labeled with signs. Some people can be seen trying to clean up or find items that survived. "J. P. del."--text, below image. "1850 [crossed out]. 1851."--handwritten text, below image. Paper color: gray.
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The Miner's Ten Commandments
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Image of a giant redwood tree in the center, a large redwood stump with several people standing on it, a large rock and a cabin to the right, and other smaller trees in the background. The text in German around the image describes Mammoth Tree Grove of Calaveras County. "Anthony & Baker SC. Published by Hutchings & Rosenfield, San Francisco."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.
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View from the Bay of Aratscha of the exterior fortifications of the town & port of Petropawloski at the moment of disembarkation, 4th Sept. 1854
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California Scenes, Drawn from Life and Engraved Expressly for the “Pacific” [general title] California Vaqueros, Returned from the Chase [illustration title]
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Image is of several vaqueros, mounted or standing, in front of a grass dwelling. A woman stands in the doorway of the dwelling while another woman sits outside of the dwelling and cooks. A saddle of one of the vaqueros is on the ground in the foreground. "Anthony & Baker SC. H. Eastman del. Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1854, by J. W. Douglass, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of California."--text, below image. Paper color: gray.
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Hutchings’ California Scenes. The Mammoth Trees
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