Sacramento City Ca. From the Foot of J. Street, showing I. J. & K. Sts. with the Sierra Nevada in the Distance. Printer: William Endicott (American, 1818–1850)
After: George Victor Cooper (American, 1810–1878)
Publisher: Stringer & Townsend (New York)

ca. 1849

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

This lithograph of Sacramento City depicts a gold-rush town in the midst of a population boom. In April 1849, Sacramento had a population of 150; by December, it was up to 3,500. Among the numerous businesses shown here is the Eagle Theater, California’s first theater, which opened on October 18, 1849. Connected to the Eagle is the Round Tent, a gambling emporium that offered “such diversions as music, a handsomely decorated bar, and a picture gallery of girls.” Docked along the Embarcadero is the steamer Senator, which became the first ship to travel round-trip between Sacramento and San Francisco in a single day.

Medium

Tinted lithograph, with additional hand coloring

Dimensions

sheet: 18 3/4 × 25 1/4 in. (47.63 × 64.14 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1946.9.1927

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, to 1946; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 284–85, no. 175, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

lithographs

Signed

Cooper, George Victor 1810 - 1878

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