Committee of Vigilance of San Francisco

Charles Christian Nahl (1818-1878)

Date

1856
Object Type

Prints
Medium

Lithograph
Contributors

Printed by Britton & Rey
Dimensions

Image: 18 1/2 x 13 7/8 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
u.c.: "BE JUST, AND FEAR NOT." FLAT JUSTITIA, RUAT COELUM OF PRESERVATION. THE FIRST LAW OF. / Committee of Vigilance of San Francisco / Reorganized 15th..May / 1856 / for the mutual protection of life & property.
c.: In the name of the people this is to certify that / Chas:h. Sherman. / No 2303 is a number of the committee / Vigilance of the city of San Francisco / and is / in the Military organization there of / [signature] Wm T. Coleman President / [signature] Isaac Bluxome Secretary / [unknown signature] Treasurer / [unknown signature] Grand Marshall.
l.l.: DESIGNED & DRAWN ON STONE BY CHA.[S] NAHL.
l.c. Embossed Seal: COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE SAN Francisco / Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1856 by ch. Nahl & C.E. Long in the Clerks Office of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Co.
l.r.: LITH. OF BRITON & REY S.F.
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1981.28
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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