Content/DescriptionThe building of Mills and Vantine liquor merchants, pictured in 1856 when used as headquarters of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee. It was known as "Fort Vigilance" or "Fort Gunnybags". Defensive sandbags are visible in foreground, and Vigilance Committee guards are on the rooftop and at street level.
Title
[Fort Vigilance, San Francisco]
Published
June 1856
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 19xx.008--AX
Type
Image
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">"In ms, at top of mount: "Daguerreotype on Paper". In ms., at bottom of mount: "For sale at Fardon's photographic rooms / 203 Clay Street. $1.00 each"."</physfacet>;;;
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