California Gallery

NATI2A-00076

Digger Indians returning from a hunt with rabbits and birds, Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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EXPL2A-00173

Spanish conquistador on a horse with foal - the origin of the horse in colonial America.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Frederic Remington illustration

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Valencia Hotel after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906

Fire raging behind the ruins of the Valencia Hotel, where 75 persons died in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

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