Looking across the Plaza from Clay & Benham Place, 1849 / [Daniel Wadsworth Coit]. [1849]

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Looking across the Plaza from Clay & Benham Place, 1849 / [Daniel Wadsworth Coit]. [1849]

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Pencil sketch of San Francisco cityscape done by Daniel Coit in 1849. The sketch was reproduced as plate 4 in: An Artist in El Dorado, printed in 1937 by the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California.

1 art original : graphite on paper ; 21 x 36 cm.

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7319593

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Coit, Daniel Wadsworth, 1787-1876

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William Gilman was the husband of Daniel W. Coit's sister Eliza. From the description of Correspondence, 1823-1828. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 33842053 ...

Goodman, John B. (John Bartlett), 1901-1991

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The "Revised and concise history of the Vigilance Committee of 1856" was written by Almarin Paul, a '49er pioneer who moved to Sacramento from St. Louis. Established a merchant firm in Sacramento but soon sold his shares to go into mining. He became the first person to mine for silver in Nevada, and is the inventor of the iron process for working silver ores and of some other mining machinery. During his first few years in California, Paul was an active member of the Vigilance Committee of 1856....