[California state flag depicting grizzly bear emblem over the words California Republic"]" – Historic Reproduction
![[California state flag depicting grizzly bear emblem over the words California Republic"]", [between 1900 and 1930] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/07/07a60caad62b-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [California state flag depicting grizzly bear emblem over the words California Republic"]", an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[California state flag depicting grizzly bear emblem over the words California Republic"]"
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Few state symbols carry as much history as the grizzly bear on California's flag, and this color lithograph shows it standing over the words "California Republic." The design traces back to the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt, when American settlers raised a hand-painted banner with a bear in Sonoma, and the legislature adopted a version of it as the official state flag in 1911. By the time prints like this circulated, the grizzly was vanishing from the state, with the last confirmed California grizzly killed in 1922, so the animal had become a symbol of a species largely gone.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1930] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Emblems 1900-1930.Lithographs Color 1900-1930. |
| Subjects | State flags--California--1900-1930. Grizzly bears--1900-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,440 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216161 |
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