Civil War in Downtown SF 1860s: Difference between revisions

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Unfinished History

Pro-Union meeting, July 4, 1861, corner of Montgomery, Post, and Market Streets.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

A rare photographic image of a nineteenth-century urban riot in progress. Sacramento Street east of Montgomery during the course of the disturbance, showing police lined up to thwart the intentions of those bent on destroying a "secesh" newspaper. Charles and Michael De Young apparently scooped up printing and typesetting equipment left in the streets in the wake of riots against Confederate-sympathizing newspapers after Lincoln's assassination, which they used to launch their newspaper The Daily Dramatic Chronicle.

Photo: Lincoln Museum, Ft. Wayne, Indiana

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-'''A crowd gathers at California and Montgomery in 1862, Nob Hill rises in background in the pre-cable car era.'''
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+'''Pro-Union meeting, July 4, 1861, corner of Montgomery, Post, and Market Streets.'''
-== Civil War era mob scene at California and Montgomery c. 1862 with a hindsight continuum on the same screen. ==
+''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''
-Contributors to this page include:
-''Gaar Collection,San Francisco,CA - Publisher or Photographer ''
+[[Image:16-2-Lincoln-riot.jpg]]
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+'''A rare photographic image of a nineteenth-century urban riot in progress. Sacramento Street east of Montgomery during the course of the disturbance, showing police lined up to thwart the intentions of those bent on destroying a "secesh" newspaper. Charles and [[Michael De Young|Michael De Young]] apparently scooped up printing and typesetting equipment left in the streets in the wake of riots against Confederate-sympathizing newspapers after Lincoln's assassination, which they used to launch their newspaper The Daily Dramatic Chronicle.'''
+''Photo: Lincoln Museum, Ft. Wayne, Indiana''
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+[[category:Downtown]] [[category:1860s]] [[category:riots]]