A View of Yerba Buena, San Francisco on July 9, 1846 NRG_Stadium_Canvas Thaddeus Stevens 19th Century —

Thaddeus Stevens 19th Century — the Pennsylvania Radical rendered in the severe register he preferred

Family Picture for the Million

an astronomical lithograph in which Jupiter looms cathedral-vast above a diminished Earth and Mercury cowers like an acolyte

the gunboats arrayed in a deliberate crescent that turned a muddy backwater into the Union's first great western victory

A View of Yerba Buena, San Francisco on July 9, 1846 NRG_Stadium_Canvas Thaddeus Stevens 19th Century —A View of Yerba Buena, San Francisco on July 9, 1846 the morning Captain Montgomery raised the Stars and Stripes over the sleepy bayside village, claiming Alta California for a republic still mid stride in its westward appetite. The view holds that quiet hour before a hamlet of adobe and masts became a city. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional