Picturing the First Boom: Images of Gold Rush San Francisco
Between 1848 and 1852, San Francisco exploded from a town of just over 800 people to a port city of about 35,000 people. Among those who flocked to the city, which served as immigrants' main gateway to newly discovered gold fields in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Illustrators, photographers and mapmakers ...read more
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