Sailing card for the clipper ship <i>California</i>, depicting scenes from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gold_rush" class="extiw" title="en:California gold rush">California gold rush</a>.
<dl><dd>"A NEW AND MAGNIFICENT CLIPPER FOR SAN FRANCISCO. MERCHANT'S EXPRESS LINE OF CLIPPER SHIPS! Loading none but First-Class Vessels and Regularly Dispatching the great number. THE SPLENDID NEW OUT-AND-OUT CLIPPER SHIP CALIFORNIA, HENRY BARBER, Commander, AT PIER 13 EAST RIVER This elegant Clipper Ship was built expressly for this trade by Samuel Hall, Esq., of East Boston, the builder of the celebrated Clippers “SURPRISE,” “GAMECOCK,” “JOHN GILPIS,” and others, She will fully equal them in speed! Unusually prompt dispatch and very quick trip may be relied upon. Engagements should be completed at once. Agents in San Francisco. Messrs, DE WITT KITTLE &amp; CO. RANDOLPH M. COOLEY, 88 Wall Street, Tontine Building".</dd></dl>
- G.F. Nesbitt &amp; Co., printer
circa 1850 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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