Heading: (Fort...)
Author:
Title: Fort Vigilante. Showing the defences [sic] around the “Vigilant Committee Rooms.”
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:
Date Published: 1856
Description:

Wood engraving on top half of single sheet of white wove, with embossed "all-seeing eye" emblem of the Vigilance Committee printed in blue on the bottom half. 25.2x19.2 cm (10x7½").

Gunny sacks piled on street in front of Fort Vigilance and adjacent buildings; signs for: Brown & Crowell, Baker & Co., Whitin [sic] & Co. On lower part of sheet is the blue embossed seal of the 1856 Committee of Vigilance, San Francisco, a most uncommon feature. With T. C. Boyd, in block, lower left. Published by the Noisy Carrier's Book & Stationery Co., 87 Battery Street, San Francisco. Quite rare - Baird locates only three copies.

A few brown spots to the sheet, old folds with slight offset; very good.