Lithographs of Early Sacramento

March 23 (Sacramento Room)

Today I spent 3 hours covering lithographs of early Sacramento ca 1850s plus an early sketch of Sutter's Fort ca 1862.  The processing and description of lithographs are pretty straightforward.  Most were engravings used in the Daily Union in news articles covering the Great Flood of 1851.  Versions of these same prints are already available in the Sacramento Room's digital collections as well as the Center for Sacramento History's photograph catalog.  The key in the review work I'm doing on these lithographs (similar to the photographs) is creating precise descriptions of the images (size dimensions, color vs. b&w, content, pub date, etc.) that can be uploaded with into the digital collections index for its metadata records.