Name/Title
View of the City of BeniciaEntry/Object ID
1992.100.0044Description
B/W photograph of a drawing: View of the city of Benicia (sketch) showing state capitol and First Street and houses with the hills on the opposite side of the straits in the background.
This wood engraving is a copy of the image in "Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California (1862) by James Hutchings". A copy of this engraving is attached. It was taken from:
Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California. . . . 2d. ed. (San Francisco: J. M. Hutchings, 1862) by James Mason Hutchings (1820
- 1902) 267 pages. Illustrated with 105 wood engravings. 24 cm. Copyright 1861. The second edition was reprinted in 1865. Bound
in red cloth stamped with elaborate gilt decoration, gilt lettering on spine, and gilt edge. Spine: SCENES / OF / WONDER / AND
/ CURIOSITY / IN / CALIFORNIA / HUTCHINGS. Library of Congress Call Number F864.H91. Cowan (1), p. 117, (II), p. 300;
Currey & Kruska 164 or 84; Farquhar 4; Greenwood 1275 or 1475; Sabin 34045.Collection
Benicia Historical Museum Collection
