2-356-051 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A market place in San Francisco, California, USA, mid 19th century (c1880). The discovery of gold in 1848 and the ensuing California gold rush caused San Francisco to grow rapidly. People from all over the world flooded to the city in search of riches. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.