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The bear flag of Sonoma, the upper portion of which is the flagpole of the celebrated "Bear Flag Uprising", California, ca.1923
Photograph the bear flag of Sonoma, the upper portion of which is the flagpole of the celebrated "Bear Flag Uprising", California, ca.1923. Situated in front of a two-story building (hotel?), the flagpole stands next to a large boulder (possibly the Bear Flag Monument). Stacks of pipes(?) lay near several of the trees that surrounds the flagpole. A man appears to be raising (or lowering?) the flag.; "Historic California Bear Flag as photographed in 1890. This flag, raised at Sonoma on June 14, 1846, was in the possession of the Society of California Pioneers at the time of the 1906 Great Earthquake and Fire, and burned during the conflagration. According to the California Blue Book: 'the flag was designed by William Todd on a piece of new unbleached cotton. The star imitated the lone star of Texas. A grizzly bear represented the many bears seen in the state. The word, 'California Republic' was placed beneath the star and bear. The Bear Flag was replaced by the American flag. It was adopted by the 1911 State Legislature as the State Flag.'" -- unknown author.; "This monument was erected by the Native Sons of the Golden West and the state of California to commemorate the raising of the Bear Flag on this spot, June 14, 1846 by the Bear Flag Party and their declaration of the freedom of California from Mexican rule. On July 9, 1846, the Bear Flag was hauled down and the American flag here raised in its place by Lieutenant Joseph W. Revere U.S.A. who was sent to Sonoma from San Francisco by Commander John B. Montgomery of the U.S. sloop of war Portsmouth, following the raising of the American flag at Monterey July 7, 1846 by Commodore John Drake Sloat." -- unknown author.
Call number: CHS-5695
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-5695
Coverage date: circa 1923
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Sonoma
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5695
Microfiche number: 1-214-
Archival file: chs_Volume99/CHS-5695.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.; 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): monuments
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1923
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Sonoma County -- Sonoma
Legacy record ID: chs-m17451; USC-1-1-1-14350
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Sonoma
Subject (lcsh): Buildings; Flags
Date circa 1923
date QS:P,+1923-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/17446
Author Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946

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