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California Admission Celebrated in Historic San Francisco Pages
A retrospective on California joining the Union with facsimile pages from the Examiner and Chronicle. It recalls the Oregon arrival and the Fugitive Slave Bill, cites Seward, Calhoun, and Webster, and honors native Sons of the Golden West with poems, cartoons, and images of 1850 San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
California
Oregon
Louis Phillips
Pacific
Daniel Webster
William H. Seward
Calhoun
San Francisco Herald
Examiner
Washingtons
San Francisco
Golden West
Joaquin Miller
the Chronicle
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Chronicle
Pho
Union of States
San Francisco Daily Herald
Herald
New York
Pacific Coast
House
Senate
Fremont
Avin
Boston
Messrs
Douglass
Ilinois
Clay
Kentucky
Congress
Texas
New Mexico
Utah
Vigilance Committee
John Nugent
Nien
Alameda Court House
Oakland
Nugent
United States
Washington
House of Representatives
Georgia
Mississippi
Alabama
South Carolina
Louis Phillipe
Claremont
England
France
Examiner of
William Penn Johnson
Pon Felipe Roach
Milionaire
Hearst
U.S. Mail
Terian
Native Sons of the Golden West
Gwin
Chicago
Society of California Pioneers
California Iumorists
Ambrose Bierce
John Pharnix
Thompson
Angels
Bret Harte
Calaveras
Mark Twain
Pacific States
America
Europe