A View of Yerba Buena, San Francisco on July 9, 1846 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap his powdered profile rendered with

his powdered profile rendered with the antiquarian reverence of an age busy curating its colonial ghosts long after the muskets had cooled

when photography and lithography were enlisted in the slow

the lithographer's careful shading lending dignity to a coalition already fracturing over slavery's westward creep

The lithograph belongs to that anxious season when broadsides argued for a country still legally whole and visibly fracturing

In Memoriam 1878

A View of Yerba Buena, San Francisco on July 9, 1846 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap his powdered profile rendered withA View of Yerba Buena, San Francisco on July 9, 1846 the morning Captain Montgomery raised the Stars and Stripes over the sleepy bayside village, claiming Alta California for a republic still mid stride in its westward appetite. The view holds that quiet hour before a hamlet of adobe and masts became a city. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional