Written on a pictorial lettersheet with a view of San Francisco in 1854 (Peters, California on Stone, No. 37), the letter tells about the city's cosmopolitan population and some of the entertainment found around the city, including a performance of Norma by Madame Bishop.
Description:
See Joseph Armstong Baird Jr.'s California's Pictorial Letter Sheets, 1849-1869, no. 239.
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel. and San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works.
Report upon United States Geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian in charge of First Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler ... (Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1875-1879).
The war between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictorial drawings of all the principal conflicts, by Carl Nebel, with a description of each battle, by Geo. Wilkins Kendall. New York, D. Appleton & Company; Philadelphia, G.S. Appleton
The war between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictorial drawings of all the principal conflicts, by Carl Nebel, with a description of each battle, by Geo. Wilkins Kendall. New York, D. Appleton & Company; Philadelphia, G.S. Appleton