The Celebration in San Francisco in Commemoration of the Successful Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable/ Monday, September 27th, 1858. San Francisco: Sterett & Butler Wood engraving; 40 x 27 cm. [overall] Includes 39 illustrations [30 are small seals of the States], and: Cars carrying 120 little girls, uniformly dressed in white, and representing all the States, and principal European Nations, 5 x 17 cm; Rube Aldrich, just arrived, 120 days from St. Jol, Missouri, 6 x 8 cm; Adams with his family of Native Californians 6 x 9 cm; [Firemen] 13 x 20 cm. :8--B

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The Celebration in San Francisco in Commemoration of the Successful Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable/ Monday, September 27th, 1858. -- San Francisco: Sterett & Butler -- Wood engraving; 40 x 27 cm. [overall] -- Includes 39 illustrations [30 are small seals of the States], and: Cars carrying 120 little girls, uniformly dressed in white, and representing all the States, and principal European Nations, 5 x 17 cm; Rube Aldrich, just arrived, 120 days from St. Jol, Missouri, 6 x 8 cm; Adams with his family of Native Californians 6 x 9 cm; [Firemen] 13 x 20 cm.

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UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

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