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Chromolithograph on heavy stock. Image 38x90 cm. (15x35½") on 56x101.5 cm. (22x40") sheet; framed under glass.

Striking chromolithograph view of San Francisco during the first great year of the Gold Rush, with numerous ships in the harbor, a wharf under construction, streets crowded with people, goods being transported from the beach, Californio vaqueros riding horseback, and "forty-niners" cooking over open fires next to their tents. This is the issue with no title directly beneath the image, but with small title under labeled diagram in the lower left margin. Made from a large oil painting executed by George Burgess in the 1880's; Peters notes that "the Crocker firm, which is still operating in San Francisco, started late in the period of our story, but Burgess was on the scene in the fifties." Baird & Evans 10b; Peters p.106; Reps 355.  Provenance: Joseph V. Costello.