California Gold Rush and Bay Area history lithographs
Content Description
Thirty (32) lithographs (color), newsprints, pen and ink drawings, regarding California Gold Rush and Bay Area history
Acquisition Type
Gift
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Edward (Carol) Valentine
Restrictions Apply
No
Inventory
1. Large Lithograph by Kuchel & Dresel. Artist: F. Holtzmann. Title: Views of the New Ditch. Frame size: 21" x 27-1/2" 2. Large pen and ink newsprint of the Palace Hotel; drawn by Berghaus & Schimpp. Frame size: 19-1/4" x 25-1/4" 3. Eight lithographs and prints of Early Northern California. Frame size: 22-1/2" x 35-1/2" 4. Sixteen lithographs of Mammoth Tree Groves, Calaveras County, California, by Nagel, Fishbourne & Kuchel, lithographers; artist: Edward Vischer. Frame: 25" x 31" 5. Large lithograph of Santa Catalina Island, California. Object size: 17" x 24". Frame size: 29" x 33 1/2" 6. Newsprint - Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion. Object size: 14" x 9-3/4"; frame size: 19" x 14 1/2" 7. Colored lithograph - "Coiffures de Danse des Habilans de la Californie". Lithographer, Langmule. Object size 7-1/4" x 10- 3/4" ; frame size 13" x 17' 8. Bill of Fare, Ward House, Dec. 27, 1849. Frame size: 10' x 6-1/4" 9. Pen and ink newsprint May 19, 1856, "Lynch Law in California". Object size: 6-1/4" x 9-3/4" ; frame size: 10" x 13". (News clipping on back) 10. Print of characters of San Francisco 1854. Frame size: 8" x 8-3/4" 11. Lithograph by Britton and Rey. Title: Past and Present of California. Frame size: 9-1/4" x 11-1/2" 12. Newsprint by W. F. Herrick. Title: Vigilance Cavalry Passing the Corner of California and Montgomery Streets. Frame size: 8-1/2" x 13-1/2" 13. Newsprint - Procession of the Committee of Vigilance of San Francisco, in the demonstration of Aug. 18, 1856. Frame size: 12" x 16-1/2" 14. Newsprint - Lynch Law in California. Scene of the First Execution in San Francisco on June 10 (1851). Object size: 4" x 6-1/2". Frame size: 7-1/4" x 9-1/4" 15. Two lithographs - Panorama of San Francisco about 1854 and Panorama of San Francisco Forty Years Later. Frame size: 13" x 10" 16. Newsprint of view of Montegomery St., near foot of Washnigton St., San Francisco, California. Artist: Wand P.S.C. lower right. Object size: 6- 1/4" x 9". Frame: 10-1/4" x 12-1/2" 17. Colored lithograph by Langlume. Title: Echolovonis a la chasse dans la baie de St. Francisco. Object size: 8" x 9-1/2" ; Frame size 14-1/4" x 16" 18. One side: Newsprint - The Celebration in San Francisco, Sept. 27, 1858. Published by Sterett & Butler. Other Side: Song Sheet - Sugar on your Lime. Published by Warren C. Butler. Frame size: 17-1/2" x 11-1/2" 19. Newsprint - The City of San Francisco, California, from Second Street above Folsom - 1857. Object size: 6-1/2" x 13-3/4", frame size: 13-1/2" x 18-1/2". 20. Newsprint - Artist: Richardson and Cox, S.C. (left center). Title: Assassination of James King, of William, Corner of Montgomery and Washington Streets, San Francisco, California. Object size: 6-1/4" x 9-1/4" ; Frame size: 9- 3/4" x 12-1/2" 21. Lithograph - Early Camping Scene, San Francisco. Object size: 9-1/2" x 11-3/4" ; frame size: 14-1/2" x 17-1/4" 22. Newsprint (article on back) Title: Burning of the Pacific Mail Steamship "Bienville" on the morning of August 15 - Passengers and Crew Escaping in the Boats. Object size: 6-1/2" x 9" ; frame size: 8-1/2" x 10-3/4" 23. Newsprint - Major-General Geary's Record. Frame size: 21-1/2" x 14-1/4" 24. Lithograph by George H. Baker. Artist unknown - Cliff House and Seal Rocks. Frame size: 12-1/2" x 18-1/2" 25. Colored Lithograph. Lithographer, Sarony & Major. Drawing by V. Prevost. Title: San Francisco Upper California in January, 1849. Object size 9" x 16-1/4". Frame size: 12" x 18-1/2" 26. Newsprint - California - the Cliff House on the Presidio Road, San Francisco, and the Seal Rocks off the Coast. From a photograph by Houseworth & Co. June 18, 1870. Object size: 9-1/2" x 14-1/2". Frame size: 11-1/4" x 16" 27. Colored lithograph by E. P. Brandard; artist, James D. Smillie. Title: Golden Gate. Object size: 7-1/4" x 10. Frame size: 14-1/2" x 16- 1/2" 28. Pen and ink newsprint - Execution of James P. Casey and Charles Cora - front of Vigilance Committee Rooms, San Francisco, California. Object size: 6-1/2" x 9-1/2". Frame size: 10" x 13" 29. Pen and ink - Four Gold Rush Scenes. Object size: 8" x 10" ; frame size: 10" x 12-3/4" 30. Newsprint - Execution of Hetherington & Brace by the Vigilance Committee. Frame size: 11 1/4" x 8 1/4" 31. Newsprint - Wayside Scenes in California. Artist: Anthony & Baker. Object size: 11" x 8-1/2" ; frame size: 14" x 11" 32. Lithograph by Nahl Brothers; Drawing by L. Nagel. Title: An Hour at the Cliff. Object size: 7" x 10". Frame size: 10-1/2" x 12-1/2"