Stained glass in Neiman Marcus store, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. This stain glass in Neiman Marcus on Union Square, was once in The City of Paris store. The architectural centerpiece of the building is the original rotu... more
![Ruins of City Hall, [1906 earthquake, San Francisco, Calif.]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1906/01/01/ruins-of-city-hall-1906-earthquake-san-francisco-calif-640.jpg "Ruins of City Hall, [1906 earthquake, San Francisco, Calif.]")
Detail of a historic car with license plates from the 1940s. San Franc...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... more
The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... more
Memorial Church on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Califo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... more
The L.A. Thompson Scenic Railway, Venice, California
Repository: California Historical Society..Date: Undated..General note: Jack Parsons, Los Angeles, Cal...Format: Postcard..Digital object ID: CHS2015.1894..Preferred citation: The L.A. Thompson scenic railway, ... more
Pelican
United States, California
Whale
United States, California
Stone Bird Hook
United States, California
Spider Vessel
United States, Arroyo Sequit Canyon, Malibu region, California
Whale
United States, California
Whistle
United States, California
Pelican
United States, California
Stone Bear
United States, California
Canoe
United States, California
![[Map of California shown as an island].](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/10/13/map-of-california-shown-as-an-island-ae7890-640.jpg "[Map of California shown as an island].")
[Map of California shown as an island].
Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline : teatro de los trabajos, Apostolic...
Relief shown pictorially. McLaughlin, G. Mapping of California as an island, 196 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault 2 copies; copy 2 is b&w
La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline : teatro de los trabajos, Apostolic...
Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
An exact-plan of George-Town so named by Patrick Graham, Esqr., Presid...
Scale ca. 1:4,700. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Imperfect: Margins torn. Oriented with north to the bottom. Cadastral map. Shows town laid out in lots in a bend of "Great Ogeche River" planned to bec... more
![Plano del puerto de Acapulco situado en la latitud de 16⁰47ʹ y en la longd. de 133⁰30[ʹ] segun el meridiano de Sn. Bernardino en Filipinas : este puerto esta en la Mar Pacífica sobre la costa meridional de California.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1760/01/01/plano-del-puerto-de-acapulco-situado-en-la-latitud-de-1647-y-en-la-longd-de-640.jpg "Plano del puerto de Acapulco situado en la latitud de 16⁰47ʹ y en la longd. de 133⁰30[ʹ] segun el meridiano de Sn. Bernardino en Filipinas : este puerto esta en la Mar Pacífica sobre la costa meridional de California.")
![[Map of Pacific Ocean between the coast of California and Mexico and Japan, Philippines, and the coast of China].](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/12/01/map-of-pacific-ocean-between-the-coast-of-california-and-mexico-and-japan-philippines-375102-640.jpg "[Map of Pacific Ocean between the coast of California and Mexico and Japan, Philippines, and the coast of China].")
[Map of Pacific Ocean between the coast of California and Mexico and J...
Watermark: PVL [Pieter van Ley] in 1 character. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 15 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text. Printe... more
Carta que contiene parte de la costa de la California.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Wagner, H. R. Cartography of the northwest coast, 708 LC Luso-Hispanic World, 81 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Magg's description on verso.
Map of the western & middle portions of North America : to illustrate ...
Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, DC. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
![Presidential tally, Presented by the Firemans fund insurance company of California. [s. l.]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/26/presidential-tally-presented-by-the-firemans-fund-insurance-company-of-california-811ffd-640.jpg "Presidential tally, Presented by the Firemans fund insurance company of California. [s. l.]")
Presidential tally, Presented by the Firemans fund insurance company o...
Campaign. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 2, Folder 14.
Dance of the Indians of the Mission of St. Joseph in New California / ...
Six Native Americans with elaborate body markings and hairstyles, dancing.
Jeu des habitans de Californie
Native women watching men play game, possibly related to gambling, at a mission near San Francisco, California.
Vista de puebla de Los Angeles C. Nebel del. ; lith. Mialhe Fesr. St. ...
Print shows a distant view, looking east toward the Santa Anna Mountains, of the cityscape of Los Angeles with low stone or adobe buildings in the foreground and two snowcapped mountains in the background Title... more
Carta esférica de la costa de la Alta California : comprendida entre l...
Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows drainage, missions, pueblos, presidios, etc. Prime meridian: Cadiz. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
![map from "Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Globe, from the year 1833 to 1836. Comprising sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian Archipelago, etc. With an account of Southern whales, the sperm whale fishery, and the natural history of the climates visited. [With illustrations.]"](https://cdn8.picryl.com/photo/1840/12/31/map-from-narrative-of-a-whaling-voyage-round-the-globe-from-the-year-1833-to-d9457f-640.jpg "map from \"Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Globe, from the year 1833 to 1836. Comprising sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian Archipelago, etc. With an account of Southern whales, the sperm whale fishery, and the natural history of the climates visited. [With illustrations.]\"")
map from "Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Globe, from the year...
This image has been taken from scan 000022 from "Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Globe, from the year 1833 to 1836. Comprising sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian Archipelago, etc. With an acc... more
Veduta di Ross stabilimento Russo vicino alla Bodega
Fort Ross, Calif., a Russian fur-trading post est. 1812.
map from "Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet i...
This image has been taken from scan 000012 from "Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas". The title and subject terms of this image have been generat... more
engraving from "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mounta...
This image has been taken from scan 000215 from "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842; and to the Oregon and North California, in the years 1843, 44". The title and subject... more
Wyoming from "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountain...
This image has been taken from scan 000049 from "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842; and to the Oregon and North California, in the years 1843, 44". The title and subject... more
California from "Die Völker des Erdballs nach ihrer Abstammung und Ve...
This image has been taken from scan 000360 from "Die Völker des Erdballs nach ihrer Abstammung und Verwandtschaft, und ihren Eigenthümlichkeiten in Regierungsform, Religion, Sitte und Tracht ... Mit ... color... more
1842 from "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains i...
This image has been taken from scan 000081 from "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842; and to the Oregon and North California, in the years 1843, 44". The title and subject... more
Gold mines of California!! W. R. Andrews, having just returned from Ca...
2366 E 1 Jy 46.; Rec. 7-11-46.; $40.00; On verso: 2366 E 1 Jy 46. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Colle... more
map from "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in...
This image has been taken from scan 000180 from "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842; and to the Oregon and North California, in the years 1843, 44". The title and subject... more
map from "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in...
This image has been taken from scan 000159 from "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842; and to the Oregon and North California, in the years 1843, 44". The title and subject... more
map from "Travels over the table lands and cordilleras of Mexico, duri...
This image has been taken from scan 000094 from "Travels over the table lands and cordilleras of Mexico, during the years 1843 and 44; including a description of California ... and the biographies of Iturbide a... more
Ultimatum on the Oregon question
In his typically jingoist view of Polk's handling of the Oregon question, the artist Edward Williams Clay belittles the self-interested attitudes of Europe toward the dispute. The issue of whether to settle the... more
California guard / Kellogs & Thayer ; E.B. & E.C. Kellog ; D. Needham.
Print showing men in dress uniform. Identified as associated with the Mexican War, 1846-48, in Picturing Victorian America: Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, by Nancy Finlay (2010), p. 83. No. 270.
Map of Upper & Lower California showing the military stations and dist...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
Charge of Captain Reid, at Sacramento
Capt. John Wm. Reid. Battle of Sacramento, 28 Feb. 1847, Illus. in: John Taylor Hughes, Doniphan's Expedition. Cincinnati : U.P. James, 1847. Reference copy may bein LOT 4414N and/or 4414P. This record contains... more
Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico, California &c. : segun lo organi...
Shows Mexico and the southern United States. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridian: Washington. Gift; Thomas W. Streeler; Dec. 28, 1937. Includes distance chart, distance list, and 2 profile... more
California quick step
From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860
Topographical sketch of the gold & quicksilver district of California.
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. 4 copies, vary slightly.
map from "The Gold Regions of California. Being a succinct description...
This image has been taken from scan 000010 from "The Gold Regions of California. Being a succinct description of the geography, history, topography, and general features of California ... Edited by G. G. Foster... more
cover from "The Gold Regions of California. Being a succinct descripti...
This image has been taken from scan 000007 from "The Gold Regions of California. Being a succinct description of the geography, history, topography, and general features of California ... Edited by G. G. Foster... more
Map of Oregon and upper California from the surveys of John Charles Fr...
Scale 1:3,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows area of U.S. west of the Continental Divide. Includes notes and "Profile of the travelling route from the South Pass of the Rock... more
flora from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth i...
This image has been taken from scan 000271 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
flora from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth i...
This image has been taken from scan 000267 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
Gates, Wm - State: California - Year: 1848 - File Number: G552
Letters Received
flora from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth i...
This image has been taken from scan 000289 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
flora from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth i...
This image has been taken from scan 000295 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
flora from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth i...
This image has been taken from scan 000283 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
![[El Dorado, California. View of scattered log cabins]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1848/01/01/el-dorado-california-view-of-scattered-log-cabins-640.jpg "[El Dorado, California. View of scattered log cabins]")
[El Dorado, California. View of scattered log cabins]
Photograph shows four log cabins scattered along the hillside; prospectors stand near or atop piles of large rocks; a flume can be seen on the far left. Title devised by Library staff.
map from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in ...
This image has been taken from scan 000195 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
flora from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth i...
This image has been taken from scan 000273 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
portrait from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenwort...
This image has been taken from scan 000074 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
flora from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth i...
This image has been taken from scan 000285 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
flora from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth i...
This image has been taken from scan 000279 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
Map of Oregon and upper California from the surveys of John Charles Fr...
Hand colored. LC copy sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Annotated on verso in black ink: California & Oregon 1848. Millard Fillmore. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows area of U.S. west of t... more
flora from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth i...
This image has been taken from scan 000125 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
flora from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth i...
This image has been taken from scan 000277 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
flora from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth i...
This image has been taken from scan 000287 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
portrait from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenwort...
This image has been taken from scan 000151 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
flora from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth i...
This image has been taken from scan 000297 from "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers". Th... more
Gates, Wm - State: California - Year: 1848 - File Number: G429
Letters Received
Plan of Sacramento City, State of California
Facsimile. Cadastral base map showing streets, lots, and some block numbers. LC copy: Signed on cover: No. 138. Sacramento City. 1849. Millard Fillmore. LC copy: Mounted on cloth backing, sheet sectioned into 1... more
Official map of San Francisco.
Scale 1:6,600; 550 English ft. to the in. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Cadastral map. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1849 by Henry Reed." Available also through the Library of Cong... more
Monterey - Capitol of California
Bird's-eye view, with ships in harbor. Lithograph by Wm. Endicott & Co. after sketch by J.W. Revere. Illus. in: Joseph Warren Revere. A tour of duty in California. New York : C.S. Francis, 1849, frontispiece. R... more
Map without title showing the railroad route to Santa Fe and San Diego...
Outline map of North America showing proposed railroad routes within the present limits of the United States. This is one of the earliest promotional maps for a transcontinental railroad to come before the Uni... more
map from "A Tour of duty in California; including a description of the...
This image has been taken from scan 000022 from "A Tour of duty in California; including a description of the Gold Region; and an account of the Voyage around Cape Horn; with notices of Lower California, the Gu... more
Grand patent India-rubber air line railway to California: competition ...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2748
Iron Store-House for California - sent to San Francisco
Built by John Walker, son of Richard Walker, orig. mfr. and patentee; of corrugated iron. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1849, July 14, p. 20. This record contains unverified, old data from caption car... more
Mr. Golightly, bound to California
Caricature of man riding on rocket with items to sell to gold miners. Copyright by A. Donnely. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings.
![map from "[What I saw in California: being the journal of a tour by the emigrant route and south pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the continent of North America, the Great Desert Basin and through California in the years 1846, 1847.]"](https://cdn8.picryl.com/photo/1849/12/31/map-from-what-i-saw-in-california-being-the-journal-of-a-tour-by-the-emigrant-34afbd-640.jpg "map from \"[What I saw in California: being the journal of a tour by the emigrant route and south pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the continent of North America, the Great Desert Basin and through California in the years 1846, 1847.]\"")
map from "[What I saw in California: being the journal of a tour by th...
This image has been taken from scan 000010 from "[What I saw in California: being the journal of a tour by the emigrant route and south pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the continent of North America, the Gr... more
Defense of the California Bank
A mildly jingoistic satire voicing American suspicions of foreign designs on California after the discovery of gold there in 1848. The bay and coastline of San Francisco are shown, menaced by foreign invaders ... more
Sunday morning ; Log cabin / / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, San...
Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) miners in camp eating and reading; and (bottom) miners standing in front of log cabin; with attached blank leaf. Title from item. Baird, California ... more
![[View near San Francisco, Upper California]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1849/01/01/view-near-san-francisco-upper-california-640.jpg "[View near San Francisco, Upper California]")
[View near San Francisco, Upper California]
Two Spanish cowboys roping a bull. Wood engraving in Illustrated London News, 1949 January 13. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Gold und Quecksilber-District von California, 1849
Relief shown by hachures. Shows Sierra Nevada region. Includes distance chart from Monterey. Manuscript notation in ink on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acqui... more
Official map of San Francisco, compiled from the field notes of the of...
Scale 1:6,600. Cadastral map. LC copy designed to show by color land grant and claims. LC copy not colored. Vault AACR2
Flume ; Elevating water wheel / / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, ...
Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) miners working next to flume; and (bottom) miners working next to river with water wheel leading to sluice; with attached blank leaf. Title from ite... more
![We, the undersigned, citizens of the United States, being about to leave our homes for California, for the purpose of mining and digging gold ... have agreed to unite together and form an association ... [Philadelphia 1849].](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/11/07/we-the-undersigned-citizens-of-the-united-states-being-about-to-leave-our-homes-70f8d6-640.jpg "We, the undersigned, citizens of the United States, being about to leave our homes for California, for the purpose of mining and digging gold ... have agreed to unite together and form an association ... [Philadelphia 1849].")
We, the undersigned, citizens of the United States, being about to lea...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 155, Folder 20.
Official map of San Francisco compiled from the field notes of the off...
Manuscript; pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil corrections. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Cadastral map. "Presented to the Senators and Representatives from California by Wm. M. Eddy, city surveyor, ... more
The place we hear about
Another grim portrayal of violent goldfield life in California, similar to "Things as They Are" (no. 1849-3) and equally critical of the outgoing Polk administration. Here again mayhem erupts, as prospectors an... more
California. Four months among the gold-finders, being the diary of an ...
Henry Vizetelly (1820-1894), a London engraver and author, was a pioneer in the publication of inexpensive illustrated books and magazines. Edwin Bryant (1805-1869) was a Kentucky journalist before coming to Ca... more
A prospecting party / Lith. & Pubd. by Britton & Rey, San Francisco.
Pictorial lettersheet shows progression of optimistic to disappointed prospectors. Title from item. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 209 (variation) Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.03