PBA Galleries

According to Peters, in "California On Stone" p. 94, "A curious view showing the procession, winding in a serpentine form, across the full page of the sheet". The procession with uniformed soldiers leads the horsedrawn hearse followed by other individuals as well as all manner of horse drawn wheeled conveyances. Peters, also states in America On Stone, p. 129, of B.F. Butler after moving to San Francisco from New York "The best of the early California caricatures were produced by Butler, a pioneer of 1849 and the first man to establish a lithography plant in the new city". The sheet is very rare and is not in Baird, California Pictorial Letter Sheets, although he mentions in his Notes To The Introduction, p.25, of knowing of one in the collection of Warren Howell, but apparently was not able to describe or record it, nor was there one in the Henry Clifford Collection auction.