Sujet

Sacramento - General View, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Sacramento - General View, 1850. Engraving from a daguerreotype, showing '...the town of Sacramento, now in course of construction...The mineral yellow-fever, say the Americans, has struck all the world; the irresistible love of Sacramento gold has attracted a host of frail structures, and a vast ceinture of tents. The town is built upon a hill, the houses reaching nearly to its summit: here are immense encampments in the environs, and the tent is here the advanced guard in the great work of civilisation, marking the future progress of the city, outstripping the carpenter and the mason, and indicating the best points for their first steps and earliest efforts. You land without difficulty upon a temporary pier, at the foot of the old Spanish fort. There is no custom-house officer to search your pockets, or, sword in hand, to examine your luggage'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A36_114

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NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

31,0Mo (3,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 18,5cm / 4960 x 2186 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation river California town boat boats flag flags industry country harbour trade port ship ships British geography industrial mining Sacramento paddle steamer paddle steamers location Victorian century Colonial banner Britain newspapers press B&W standard gold mining engraved engraving sailing ship sailing ships United States of America 19th century water transport black & white black and white townscape B W gold rush nineteenth century Sacramento River American America USA The Print Collector colonialism colonisation geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper landscape united states Unknown 19th-century American River gold fever