San Francisco, 1850 / P.S. Duval's Steam Lith. Press, Philada. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures San Francisco, 1850 / P.S. Duval's Steam Lith. Press, Philada. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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San Francisco, 1850 / P.S. Duval's Steam Lith. Press, Philada.
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Printed by P.S. Duval's steam lithograph press in Philadelphia and published in New York, this color view of San Francisco in 1850 was issued by the author of *Sights in the Gold Region*, a travel account of the mining country. The town it depicts had been transformed by the Gold Rush that began in 1848, when prospectors and merchants arrived by the thousands and turned a small former Mexican settlement into a crowded boomtown within a few years. Prints like this gave eastern buyers a vivid picture of that distant, fast-changing city.
| Created / published | New York : Published by the Author of Sights in the Gold Region & c. for Henry Bill, c1850. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Cityscape prints 1850.Lithographs Color 1850. |
| Notes | Copyright by Theodore T. Johnson. |
| Subjects | San Francisco (Calif.)--1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,766 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-214132 |
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