Content/DescriptionBust portrait of man (Robins, George W., 1821-1908). Robins, a California pioneer, left New York in March 1849 aboard the bark Clarissa, sailed around Cape Horn and arrived in San Francisco in October of that year. Robins was referred to as a capitalist and a letter apparently written by him to Benjamin S. Hill in 1850 discusses the state of money market in San Francisco at the time.
Title
[George Robins]
Published
186-?
Full Collection Name
Framed items from the collections of The Bancroft Library
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1959.093--FR
Type
Image
Extent
1 painting : oil ; oval image 68.5 x 55.8 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Handwritten title (stretcher, UC). Stamp (on stretcher) from Jones & Woolls picture store, 48 Market St.
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