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Cultural/Historical ContextLabel
View of Sacramento City, 1850
Reproduction of a lithograph by George Casilear and Henry Bainbridge
Courtesy Center for Sacramento History, McCurry’s Collection, 1973/003/1369.
The Great Flood of 1861-1862 was not Sacramento’s first flood. This lithograph depicts a similar event in January 1850. As the authors wrote, “the rise of the River [occurred because of] heavy rains and the melting of Snow from the Mountains was about 20 feet.”